• aeshna_cyanea@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      15 minutes ago

      It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      7 hours ago

      Hex, .ml and grad are part of the Tankie Triad. Tankies are authoritarians and often hard to tell apart from far right nutjobs

      • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Oh right. When I first heard about Lemmy, I tried to join .ml because it was the first instance I was made aware of. I think it was being rate limited at the time due to that whole reddit exodus thing, and I wasn’t able to get through, but. .world let me sign up so here I am.

        I’d like to think that members of a given instance have their own opinions. It’s sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          3 hours ago

          It’s sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

          Not really territorial, more… despises authoritarianism in all its forms lol.

          While I’m sure there are plenty of non-tankie .ml users, the problem is with the admins and mods being the biggest Tankies around who enforce the “Tankie ideology” throughout.

          Go checkout .ml memes, anything posted that’s Tankie-like will even sometimes get tons of downvotes as the post gets federated to non-Tankie instances but never removed.

          Conversely, anything posted that’s even slightly critical of China/Russia is quickly removed under the catch-all “Rule 1 bigotry” (You’ll have to check the modlog for that)