Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.
This gets posted here on a near daily basis, I'm not sure how you missed it.
.world and .ml have been feuding practically since Lemmy went live. The .world folks insist .ml are full of fascist tankies who hate freedom. The .ml folks deride .world as a cesspool of white nationalism and hatred of the third world.
But the "problem" appears to be that one instance can't shut down the other. So we get these endless struggle sessions with the same angry sets of links and vows to defederate at all costs.
Lemmy was invented / created / etc. by a bunch of authoritarian weirdos?
Lemmy was created explicitly to get away from the Reddit brand of authoritarian weirdos. Then it was made to be fungible and mutable and interconnectable in order to prevent any single mod or admin from exerting Reddit-like control over the communities at-large.
I don’t even understand what Lemmy is
It's a place to post. You don't have to get much deeper than that. So much of this drama is one group of people angry at another group of people for posting wrong.
Which is very classic "old Reddit" before the mods decided dissent was bad for monetization.
It's funny Lemmy was created as a way to get away from "Reddit brand authotarian weirdos" yet Lemmy's creator is a "Reddit brand authotarian weirdo" and so is most of the main moderation team on ml and elsewhere you'll think that with there combined experience on Reddit that they'lld learnt by now that censorship is bad. But then again what am I saying with my experience with tankies and socialists I've learnt a lot of them aren't that bright
It's funny and ironic that the creator of this platform has become the very thing he apparently despises although I'm not surprised to be brutally honest commies do love their censorship