• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/3396945

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/3671013

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/3852561

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/2122831

    I don’t know more you want. If effusive praise of Stalin (and quite clearly not in a sarcastic way; being light-hearted about white supremacy doesn’t make 4chan suddenly a bastion of tolerance, for example) and denial of the Holodomor isn’t enough to be a tankie, I really don’t know what the fuck is.

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      6 months ago

      I agree that some are good examples. I think some are exaggerated but I’ll ignore those.

      The overwhelming majority of them are from hexbear finding their way to lemmy.ml. I honestly gotta check who is defederated from who. If we defederate from lemmy.ml, we’d get rid of those but we would be losing a ton of content in communities where there are no insane extremists. What do you think what the best solution would be? I wonder if speaking to lemmy.ml mods about it could help.

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        6 months ago

        The overwhelming majority of them are also very much upvoted, and the tankies ARE the mods themselves on many of the main political communities.

        I’m not even advocating defederating from Lemmy.ml, unlike Lemmygrad, because I don’t believe that Lemmy.ml brigades or is aggressively toxic towards other instances.

        But that’s not the same as saying they aren’t infested with tankies, or run by tankies, because they very much are.

        The only real solution is to be aware of the tankies in lemmy.ml.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah the intro to that Tankie video that person you linked to had posted… jesus.

          I think your solution is reasonable and preferable to me tbh.