Or something that goes a bit deeper onto each instance and explains them better? I have a mutual on mastodon that I recommended Lemmy to, and tried to link join-lemmy.org/instances, but it doesn’t really do much to warn about hexbear/lemmygrad/.ml/etc. Those instances are defederated from a LOT of lemmy and i don’t want my moot to sign up there and not even know that they’re not really experiencing the Lemmy experience that I’m recommending.
I don’t wanna start a war in the comments about instance dramas, I just wanna find a better resource to recommend Lemmy as a ‘reddit alternative’ -w-
Sad .ml noises
Wtf is a tankie?
People who love authoritarianism and intentionally skip over their atrocities, the term “tankie” refers to how the military (tanks) were used to crush the rebellions of many authoritarian regimes, notably, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 being crushed by the Warsaw Pact and the Tianamen square massacre in 1989 by the PRC.
It’s usually used to refer to supporters of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc. who deny all the bad, inhuman things about those states.
All states are authoritarian, that’s literally what the structure of a state is. Does that mean the only non-tankies are anarchists?
Well that’s a hot take. Brb, moving to North Korea…
Roughly speaking, authoritarian/big-state communist. Very common on a certain subset of Lemmy instances.
So, like a far left beyond DSA or something?
More people who kiss the toes of dictators. Those who ignore the atrocities of Stalin and similarly despicable figures, “tankie” as in the tanks used to silence civilian protests
Anarchists are far left, but they would be very insulted if you called them tankies (their whole thing is anti-authoritarianism!)
Someone who supports socialist state. You’ll get a million other responses but the through line is that tankies support existing socialism.
ITT: tankies downvoting everyone
ITT: Liberals whinging about ”tankies” participating on the free, open source social media platform that they themselves created.
Go whitewash an Uyghur reeducation camp or something.
Free career training to help people improve their material conditions, the horror!
At least some of you have stopped perpetuating the “genocide” propaganda, so props for that.
We’re not going anywhere, but you can always go back to Reddit, which I left at the same time as you: the APIpocalypse.
Missed a spot.
Hexbear user since a couple days of their launch before federation was a thing. The instances you’re knocking are older than every other instance, and the defeds were typically preemptive to the point where people on other instances usually have no fucking clue what they’re talking about.
Always makes this stuff bewildering, but we’ll be here with you or not.
How about pointing them at Piefed instead?
You could point them to the instance chooser. It’s on every piefed instance but is decentralized so may be different on different instances, here’s piefed.social: https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser
Piefed has all the same content but a different feature set and worse app support, but app support is growing.
Piefed uses a social credit system
Just don’t choose piefed.social. Rimu made a few quite questionable decisions to say the least.
“I don’t want to start a comment war, I just want to spew anticommunism while receiving zero pushback” isn’t going to work on Lemmy. You can block the instances and comments and posters, but this entire thing is built by communists. You will never have a liberal paradise in these parts.
FYI .ml is federated with almost every single instance. You’re just making shit up to get mad about.
liberal paradise
Isn’t that just piefed?
