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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
Source: https://lemmy.world/post/31409298/17704048
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Do you ever think about what you're gonna do when you win the fight against fascism on Lemmy? Like what to do with that Nobel prize money?
Probably pivot my time and effort into general promotion of the Lemmy-verse. Kinda hard these days when, inevitably, someone is going to come in and ask "Isn't that the place that's full of tankies?"
At least if defederation is achieved against the whole triad I can say, "Yea they're there, but most instances have disconnected from their instances, so you won't see their BS unless you specifically want to"
An anecdote I've shared before a time or two on my lemm.ee account was that I almost quit Lemmy specifically because of how insufferable the Hexbears were.
I can't speak to whether keeping me around was good, but I genuinely only remained because I learned how to block the instance.
If you every want, https://lemmy.cafe/ blocks Hexbear, Grad, and ML while federating with everyone else.
Also I think Piefed lets you block all users in an instance even if that instance is technically federated.
I wonder how many people are turned off by the sheer amount of interpersonal drama!
Very few, considering you're one of maybe two people I've seen complaining about it. cm0002 is doing good for the platform.
I mean, that's your opinion on the side that upvotes this dumb shit. Over on the tanky side you see just as many up votes and downvotes. It's like when a bunch of rich people move into a neighborhood next to a methadone clinic and wanted it shut down cause they hate all the dirty people around.
You aren't fighting fascists, you're in a flame war with a bunch of other people who disagree. This constant public fighting is childish.
Well, it seems that some people are into the drama so much I see their comments here all the time!
IMO, this is the reason for all of it. This is drama farming people who disagree with eachothers politics.