• cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    7 hours ago

    Hex, .ml and grad are part of the Tankie Triad. Tankies are authoritarians and often hard to tell apart from far right nutjobs

    • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 hours ago

      Oh right. When I first heard about Lemmy, I tried to join .ml because it was the first instance I was made aware of. I think it was being rate limited at the time due to that whole reddit exodus thing, and I wasn’t able to get through, but. .world let me sign up so here I am.

      I’d like to think that members of a given instance have their own opinions. It’s sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

      • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        3 hours ago

        It’s sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

        Not really territorial, more… despises authoritarianism in all its forms lol.

        While I’m sure there are plenty of non-tankie .ml users, the problem is with the admins and mods being the biggest Tankies around who enforce the “Tankie ideology” throughout.

        Go checkout .ml memes, anything posted that’s Tankie-like will even sometimes get tons of downvotes as the post gets federated to non-Tankie instances but never removed.

        Conversely, anything posted that’s even slightly critical of China/Russia is quickly removed under the catch-all “Rule 1 bigotry” (You’ll have to check the modlog for that)