Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Reddit
Tankies: A Data-driven Understanding of Left-Wing Extremists on Reddit
don’t know if this is the best community to post in but interesting.
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Facing restrictions on Reddit, tankie subreddits, r/GenZedong and r/GenZhou, transitioned to Lemmygrad.ml, a Marxist/Leninist online platform. Tankies’ move not only made them dominant voices on Lemmygrad.ml but also seemed to amplify the overall toxic tone on the platform.
Yeah, this right here is why Lemmy will never take off, this place is toxic as hell thanks to the tankies.
It's problematic for Lemmy that the .ml instance gives the impression of a flagship instance since it's run by the devs. It gives the fediverse as a whole a bad look to outsiders. I speak from experience because it was one of the three recommended to me before I left Reddit.
if only there was a way for admins of an instance to block federation with certain instances, we could call it "unconnecting"
Like it or not, the average person still sees Lemmy as a mostly homogenous platform. If they see “lemmy is full of tankies”, it’s not a good look. They don’t know how defederation works.
Gab and Truth.social are forks of Mastodon, but I don't see "Mastodon is full of alt-right garbage people" as an argument against using it anywhere. probably because they're unconnected from everyone else.
they are forks, lemmygrad, hexbear are integrated with many major lemmy instances
Yeah, its not just the Tankies that make Lemmy so toxic. Unfortunately.
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Have the posts grad is full of bothered you recently? You know, there's a reason why not.
ML definitely has some tankies, not all, but some of the people there are lemmygradesque
Yep. And the good new is that you can block that one too.
blocking doesnt block users on most UIs, only communities
The secret is to engage them until they block you;)
These are egg shells the moment their copy paste bullshit gets picked a part as misinformation
My experience before blocking it was that most people there are real honest Marxists that are eager to participate in serious arguments.
They just don't believe in empiricism, logic, or coherence. They believe in the line.
Anyway, I never managed go be blocked, I just got a series of incredibly weird arguments.
Yes, they have, they just moved to lemmy.ml.