cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25133597

Come one come all to the Lemmy-verse! It’s nice and cozy here, we do have some “bad parts of town” but you can do an instance block and not deal with them lol

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz and !biology@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo theres always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

There’s much more around as well!

Obligatory, fuck Spez

  • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
    8534·
    3 months ago

    From what I can tell, this tankie stuff is bullshit. In the years I’ve been here, I’ve seen close to zero ‘tankie’ content from any of these supposedly tankie instances. There’s like maybe one or two people on those instances who might fit the description if you search for them. Meanwhile, literally every day there are posts spitting on these supposed tankie instances. (And actually, it’s again a very small number of people complaining - but they put their crap into cute memes to get traction).

    I don’t like the idea of shouting slurs at entire instances. In my view, if you hate those instances so much - just block them. Problem solved. No need to spew hate all over lemmy.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
      3110·
      3 months ago

      When hexbear federatedn with SJW, I spent a day arguing Russia invading is bad actually, North Korea isn’t a democratic utopia, and China isn’t a shining pillar of socialism. Then I blocked them all because that was exhausting. So idk if hexbear is still so tankie, but they definitely were at that point.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlBannedEnglish
      4027·
      3 months ago

      You have to remember, the people making the tankie accusations consider anyone to the left of Joe Biden a tankie.

    • Saint_La_Croix_Crosse
      187·
      3 months ago

      Again, despite claims to the contrary, tankie for most people means “anything left of the Democrats, or willingness to break with US foreign policy.”

        • Saint_La_Croix_Crosse
          11·
          3 months ago

          “Despite claims to the contrary”, to grossly simplify Wittgenstein, a word’s meaning is how it is actually used.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
      1812·
      3 months ago

      Perhaps that’s because your instance is defederated from them? They were all over the place before most other major instances defederated from them. They are still all over the place if you’re on an instance that federates with them. I had to manually block their bullshit when I was on Yiffit. I don’t have to on Pawb or Lemmy.World.

      • Faresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
        215·
        3 months ago

        lemm.ee federates with all three of the mentioned instances, so they are definitely seeing the posts from those instances.

        • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
          115·
          3 months ago

          I’ve seen a few. They are mostly just anti American (fair enough). They often miss the point that something being anti American doesn’t mean they are not their own empire with its own problematic takes.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        43·
        3 months ago

        Yiffit was never federated with any of them, none of them federate with porn instances.

          • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
            32·
            3 months ago

            If instance A isn’t federated with instance B, nobody from instance B sees instance A’s content. That is different from a block.

    • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      128·
      3 months ago

      I’m jealous, I keep seeing them everywhere. As for the blocking, I’ve tried to block .ml several times but for some reason it hasn’t worked. -_-

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        43·
        3 months ago

        Please see my guide posted earlier in this comment section. I hope you can block .ml soon, as it is your lemmy and you should use it how you want. Block me too, thanks.

      • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1310·
        3 months ago

        The politics community on world is even more rabid and unconstructive than the Reddit equivalent

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      1112·
      3 months ago

      Hexbear defederated from my instance for being authoritarian Nazis. What triggered this decision? A vote organised by the instance’s admins, to choose whether or not to defederate from the bears. You cannot make this shit up.

      Oh and the vote itself was started because of them brigading us, calling us a bunch or Nazis. So, yeah.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        179·
        3 months ago

        Huh, that sounds pretty bad, let me look that up. Oh wait, it’s a total lie.

        My personal opinion, for those who are interested, is that these two instances (Hexbear and Lemmygrad) are filled with what we call here nazbols, tankies, or even left-wing fascists.

        “It came from the statement made in the thread that hexbear was ‘aggressively pro-trans,’ which seemed quite disgusting and fetishizing to me. This aligns with the rest of the authoritarian theme of the instance, you might say, having the perspective that one must make a superhuman effort to allow a minority to use a space.”

        -jlai.lu admin’s vichy ass.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
      67·
      3 months ago

      Yep. The few I see are easily ignored. Or poked if you want to set them off.