The Lemmy Developers are now personally blocking and banning users and communities critical of Tankies and the Developers.
The Lemmy Developers are now personally blocking and banning users and communities critical of Tankies and the Developers.
A few years ago, the Lemmy Developers decided to keep their political views on lemmygrad while keeping lemmy.ml more neutral. Now they are banning users who are critical of their actions and bigotry.
Anti-Tankie posts may put you at risk of being banned from commenting and posting on the lemmy.ml instance.
Muting lemmy.ml and Hexbear has improved my lemmy experience significantly
I just saw an upvoted post on hex that I forgot to block that’s said China and NK should take over Taiwan while this whole HAMAS Israel thing is going on.
Also most of them think HAMAS and Palestine did nothing wrong by killing 300 people…they’re “fighting for their freedom”
They’re also anti Ukraine
Fuck them all
they are literally a death cult. they love hearing and seeing innocents die
Seeing some of the stuff that's made it to the front from Hexbear about the Israel situation makes me wonder if people are going to run the risk of promotion of proscribed terrorist groups by hosing federated content from them.
In the US there's a list terrorist organisations that Hama's could very well be on. (I'm not up to date on this). And it is, or at least was, illegal to provide material support to those organisations.
In any case it would be very hard to make such a charge stick in the US if all you have is internet postings, no overt acts, and no money changing hands. First amendment and all.
I started with an account on Lemmy.ml and was banned when I argued with the owner/developer, Dessalines, about the Xinjiang genocide being real. I noped out of there very quickly, and you should too. Other users have been banned for questioning the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Wait, what do they think happened at Tienanmen Square then? And do they paint the wiki article about it as "fake news"?
Yes, literally. They argue it was a “mostly peaceful” student protest and a few people maybe got killed when they attacked police. They argue the scope and severity has been fabricated by the West, and that there is no evidence of a massacre.
All the usual tinfoil hat stuff you can expect from leftwing authoritarians.
They blame the students for the deaths and that it also never happened.
Oh wow really? You should link that!
I had to dig a bit because Dessalines deleted the comments, but I found a screenshot. It references the Xinjiang genocide, not the Tiananmen Square massacre. Other users in the same thread were getting banned for discussing the Tiananmen Square massacre, but my ban was based on my comments about the Xinjiang genocide.
Which side did you argue?
That it’s real, of course. Why would arguing the inverse get me banned on Lemmy.ml?
Um it’s pretty obvious when we’re discussing tankies what view got him banned.
People: "Come to the fediverse, there are no fascists, everything is cool and free of toxicity."
The fediverse: tankies, people who simps for tankies, genocidal apologists, harassment...
At this point I am ready to embrace full internet solitude. The grass calls.
People have to realize where the clowns are and where they're being greenlit and encouraged, and what you can do about it. It's a good platform if you know how to deal with them. The internet will always be the internet but at least you don't have to be on the same island with these folks.
People: “Come to the fediverse, there are no fascists, everything is cool and free of toxicity.”
There are definitely fascists on the fediverse, they don't use the reddit-like (lemmy/kbin) part of the fediverse since exploding-heads shut down.
exploding-heads are fascists, but I wasn't talking about them.
Hey internet, can we just not go fash or tankie for like 5 minutes? kthxbye
Either that or they're the mouthpiece of some corpo or political party. What happened to normal online discussions?
Hows your day going?
if only
Sucks that a lot of communities are on a tankie instance. Hope that they will move.
Raise awareness
Can we avoid conflating Lemmy with individual instances like lemmy.ml?
Why?
Fork them
This seems like a very good idea
This place is a cesspool compared to Tildes.
Yes but counter-point: the owner of Tildes literally calls himself god, and acts like it. At least we can block lemmy.ml and just not go there.
When/where was this?
U can always trust a tankie to censor anything they don't like at any opportunity. They are the ultimate bad faith actors.
The community was "meanwhileongrad"? Lemme guess, yet another community created solely to shit on another instance for being "tankie"? Yeah, I don't mind removing such stupid communities (including this tankiejerk community). It seems like your only purpose is hatred toward other users of the fediverse. Not exactly a positive space.
MeanwhileOnGrad exists to catalogue and document hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Extremism that glorifies violence and bigotry should always be condemned.
Nor do your arguments about making the fediverse a positive space even apply when the primary sources of such virulent hatred comes from self-defederated instances which do not interact with the rest of the fediverse.
Right, no one in that community ever goes over to those instances, glorifies violence and bigotry, and then screenshots the responses for content.
And they'd never scour for years old comments and splice them together to create an implied thread of conversation.
And of course that community would never ban someone for pointing out those kinds of bad faith tactics now would it?
"Not creating a positive space" for genocide denialists?
Good, cry me a fucking river.
You're painting the entire community as genocide denialists. I've gone there multiple times and that is not the case. Get out of here with your disingenuous bullshit. You're doing enough crying for all of us by crying about strawmen with your dramatic delusions. Anyone can cherry pick posts and make any community look bad.