Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.
I have read Marx, unlike you who's just learned about Lenin through memes.
The network effect is a commodity. That's why X and Facebook fight for users and put them in walled gardens.
Their valuations are based engagement. The most powerful and successful capitalist enterprises in history are all social media companies but okay discussion isn't a commodity. How myopic can you be.
The network effect is not a commodity. Lemmy is not produced for profit, it has no Value. Reread Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1. It has a Use-Value, but no Exchange-Value and is not produced for profit. Capitalism necessitates profit and an M-C-M' circuit by which Capitalists accumulate, which is absent from Lemmy entirely.
Another pedantic tankie argument. Just because something is not being exchanged doesn't mean it can't.
Regardless originally I said the network effect had value, not that it was a commodity. And the VALUE cannot be replicated by building another instance. Therefore the users do not own THE VALUE that they produce.
Lemmy is a decommodified Reddit. There's no profit motive. The network does not have Value, as it is not being exchanged. It has a Use-Value, in that it is useful, but nothing is being taken from workers as nothing is exchanged.
Please read Capital, Chapter 1 of Volume 1 makes this extremely cut and dry.