I have seen my fair share of tankies here, so there definitely is a presence of them here. But I also do think a lot of the complaints come from people who assume any leftist user or post is also a "tankie."

Like I do see a lot of leftist memes posted to memes@lemmy.ml, which might be where a lot of the complaints are coming from. Likewise there has been a lot of drama with hexbear federating with a lot of communities that were previously shielded from them.

[–] JohnDClay 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm talking about hexbear as tankie specifically. I haven't really seen any reasonable leftists on that instance. They use lib as an insult to give an idea.

[–] nyar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So the instance that has anarchists and syndicalists on it (as well as, MLists, MSMists, and Stalinists, and more) are all tankies?

[–] JohnDClay 2 points 2 years ago

I only came across tankies. I couldn't find anyone in the few days we were federated who would condemn Russia's invasion or China's treatment of the Uyghurs. Maybe they're on there, but I didn't find any.