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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

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Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.

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Dessalines, .ml admin head Lemmy dev, purging an entire ask Lemmy thread of all dissent (i.imgur.com)
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Earnest answers on the definition of a Tankie (as per the thread topic), bringing up their viewpoints or talking about the authoritarianism they promote were removed and users banned.

Source: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/17428405

Modlog: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=10894797

Source: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21457702

Modlog: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=66486

Source https://lemmings.world/comment/18733315

Modlog https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=16964962

Join the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance! To make this easy you can do an instance block at Settings > Block Tab > Scroll to bottom > Input "lemmy.ml" and apply

And consider donating to individual instances instead.

Check the megathread for more!

@Afata@lemmings.world @Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de @florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone

@the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world in response to your comment, it was not a mod, it was head lemmy.ml instance admin themselves that removed all those comments. This is what tankies do, be sure to check the megathread for even more documentation.

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[–] datavoid@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I silently switched to sh.itjust.works a while ago. When I signed up I wanted to be on the dev server, but the views of the devs are more or less completely incompatible with my own.

Also I hate censorship... bitch.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Yeah, the big issue is that the dev has admitted anything donated towards Lemmy’s development will also go towards running .ml. They don’t segregate the donation funds at all, which is a massive ethical conflict. It’s a large part of why so many people jumped ship to piefed instead, so they can feel better about donating to development without supporting a blatant tankie.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Lemmy is a deliberate prop platform and the more I am here the more that appears to be true generally.

I find a lot of joy in seeing the overt and deliberate attempts to sway opinion. I have a background in that field (observational and analysis, not application) and the accounts that are likely state actors follow a playbook.

Find them yourself and outline the way their messages flow and go and you can find the pattern. It’s fun. Also scary seeing others take the bait.

Reciprocal Determinism can be hijacked hard.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a deliberate prop platform and the more I am here the more that appears to be true generally.

Piefed is always available!