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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?
(caution of biased source)
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 it 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.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post, rather than engaging in arguments that lack mutual agreement.
Brigading — If you're here because this community was linked in another thread, please refrain from voting, commenting, or manipulating the post in any way. This includes alt accounts. All votes are public, and if you are found to be brigading, you will be banned.
Tankies can explain their views, but may be criticised or challenged for them. Any minor infraction of the rules may result in a warning and possibly a temporary ban.
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 last only 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction doubles the duration. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
Don't engage with Antiyanks -- DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE ANTIYANKS. YOU DO NOT RECOGNISE ANTIYANKS. YOU DO NOT RECOGNISE ANTIYANKS.
Source: https://lemmy.world/post/29479317/16990977
Modlog: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=7919430
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No need to be of two Minds about it. If they want to play Vanguard hero in their own time with their own resources. I don't particularly care. If they want to use funds donated by myself or others to fund and echo chamber for that end. That's where the problem is.
I've had the ban happy nature of the admins on the instance run a friend or two off. I can't blame them, and didn't try to stop them. No one likes to deal with that. Least of all the people doing it. It's absolutely a bad book having it be the flagship instance.
It's common practice to defederate from poorly administered servers. The only thing that has generally kept Lemmy.ml from being included among that number. Is that they rarely wander out from their little vanguard. Because they would largely be downvoted to the point of it being useless for their ends.
Yeah, I absolutely agree. I am generally pretty open minded, I thought the tankies were really neat when I first was poking around with Lemmy, it was only further experience and the censorship and total unlistening unreasonableness that turned me against them. Most people in the world are not that open minded. If there's a network founded and operated by people who are hostile, communist, and clearly unhinged and irrational, throwing bans and pictures of pig shit around, most people are going to go to Bluesky and they're going to think you're kind of stupid for continuing to put up with this other network that's for losers and not worth spending energy on.