don’t know if this is the best community to post in but interesting.
Facing restrictions on Reddit, tankie subreddits, r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou, transitioned to Lemmygrad.ml, a Marxist/Leninist online platform. Tankies’ move not only made them dominant voices on Lemmygrad.ml but also seemed to amplify the overall toxic tone on the platform.
Yeah, this right here is why Lemmy will never take off, this place is toxic as hell thanks to the tankies.
It’s problematic for Lemmy that the .ml instance gives the impression of a flagship instance since it’s run by the devs. It gives the fediverse as a whole a bad look to outsiders. I speak from experience because it was one of the three recommended to me before I left Reddit.
Posted from .world…
Have the posts grad is full of bothered you recently? You know, there’s a reason why not.
ML definitely has some tankies, not all, but some of the people there are lemmygradesque
if only there was a way for admins of an instance to block federation with certain instances, we could call it “unconnecting”
Like it or not, the average person still sees Lemmy as a mostly homogenous platform. If they see “lemmy is full of tankies”, it’s not a good look. They don’t know how defederation works.
Gab and Truth.social are forks of Mastodon, but I don’t see “Mastodon is full of alt-right garbage people” as an argument against using it anywhere. probably because they’re unconnected from everyone else.
they are forks, lemmygrad, hexbear are integrated with many major lemmy instances
“downplaying or justifying human rights abuses.” Is this because “tankies” are the ones who are most vocal about being against genocide? Since libs seem to love what’s happening in Palestine
No, they give examples of people denying or downplaying the Uyighur genocide, calling Ukrainian people US funded Nazis, etc.
Great, now we have research on “tankies”. A word I didn’t even know until somewhat recently and have personally come to despise, as I have often seen it abused on Lemmy, along with “Russian shill”, “russobot”, “sinobot” and what have you, in attempts to discredit anyone who might say anything that is not constant political condemnation of China or Russia and respectively support for US/EU/NATO expansion. Its abuse in many ways resembles the abuse of the “antisemite” label to silence criticism of Israel, or indeed the overuse of the “fascist” label in (ultimately failed) attempts to silence the (new) right, and many other labels that unfortunately liberals among others are keen to throw around generously. It matters little what side of a debate you stand on, if you have to resort to so much name-calling to make your case. Other than that, research is fine. With the caveat that political research is, well, often political and thus not particularly immune to political bias.
man you took this article really personally…
