I see far FAR more people complaining about tankies and posts talking shit about tankies than I ever see posts or comments by tankies.
It's honestly tiresome.
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it might be your instance not being fed'd with them
Hey, I'm gonna be real honest, this simple sentence really helped explain part of the whole Lemmy federated instances thing to me.
Yeah, I bet that's the case. I think folks are hollering at the moon because I literally can't see the posts they're complaining about!
I wonder if this is why I'll see a post has a larger comment count than the comments I can read, too.
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Depending on the instance you are on and the blocks you have set up, your feed can be very full of the stuff
This is something that I consistently see that people still haven't gotten used to with Lemmy and other federated sites. People often complain about what they see on their feed or sometimes attack an OP for reposting. I assume people just aren't thinking about it since we're all still used to Reddit and using a centralized platform where everyone can see the same stuff. But with Lemmy, it seems that people forget that their feed will be completely different, based on which instance they are in.
Is startreck.website federated with hexbear? When sh.itjust.workes got federated by hexbear a few days ago, about a third of all was tankie memes and discussion from hexbear. They mostly stayed to their communities, but sometimes I would come across comments on memes from .ml.
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and I had to block all those hexbear communities, cuz suddenly they flooded my feed
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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 [email protected], 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.
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.
There was a wave of tankie on Reddit and here during the reddexit. It was like, “where the fuck did stalin/mao/pol pot loving, atrocity denying weirdos come from en masse?” But you’re right the shock was bigger than the phenomenon.
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Blehh yeah it feels a little astroturfy, all the push to conflating leftists with china-loving authoritarians. Makes a man wonder if libs actually stand for anything at all.
I think there absolutely is a contingent of Communists, especially new "converts" who get over zealous about their newfound ideology and veer into some flippant and ignorant hyperbole.
And I think there absolutely are groups of left-leaning folks who are still well and deep in the Red Scare culture.
Part of the issue is that many more... reasonable (for a lack of a better word) people see hyperbole and inanity and just close the post or not respond and the comments and posts tend to come from more passionate folks from the different camps of thought.
It doesn't help that the tankies are trying to push the idea that "Tankie is a slur against all communists/leftists!" The word "tankie" was invented by communists as an insult against those specific "communists" the cheer on brutal oppression of civilians -- particularly when those civilians are communists themselves.
The irony is tankies hate the "wrong kind of leftist" just as much as their other ideological enemies.
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Keep your political bullshit on hexbear and lemmygrad!
fr. the only political post I ever made was mocking tankie propaganda being posted to a non political meme community
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Instead of yelling “OWWW”, they yell “MAOOO”
My old neighbor's cat sounded like that a couple of times a year, good ol Meow Zedong.
It's funny because Māo is actually Chinese for "cat"
i’m so sick of these goddamn tankies
they’re literally just fascists painted red
they went so far into the spectrum that they overflowed into the opposite side
Word, anyone that thinks China should be the hegemon is deluded.
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We'll create our own instance with black jack and hookers and we'll settle our political differences over a game of uno
Oh ffs, what now?
Drama between Hexbear and ShitJustWorks. Have some popcorn.
So who is the person on the bicycle in this scenario?
Hexbear. They're an instance that exists mostly to troll and harass others, and have been defederated by most of Lemmy.
So... they're not the ones defederating everyone?
They also tend to defederate in turn with anyone who blocks them.
my home instance hasn't defederated them yet. super small instance, but still
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