The FIRST thing I did when I set up my piefed instance was defederate all of the tankie triad

“Tankie” DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING. If you have legitimate criticism, it is impossible to frame it in those terms. If you have something to say, fucking say it, and don’t hide behind this kind of childish slander and name calling. It makes the whole endeavor look churlish and motivated by the wrong intentions.

In a recent discussion in the Matrix chat, it was mentioned that donations to support development have recently fallen off quite steeply. I mentioned my reason for not donating anymore is because I can’t support anyone who runs an instance like .ml. @nutomic@lemmy.ml said I could donate directly to him since he doesn’t do as much moderation over there, but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.

Every time a ml/hexbear community that I might be interested in pops up on my feed, I block it, then manually search for a non-tankie version of the same thing and immediately subscribe. The amount of pro-authoritarian content I’ve been exposed to has dramatically dropped.

cause nobody wants to get dragged into a ten page discussion about why China and Russia are the most democratic countries in the world

I actually like seeing their posts on my main account. It allows me to keep up with their lingua franca, so I can more easily identify their alts on normal instances, so I know not to attempt to engage in good faith.

I joined Lemmy in November. By New Years I had independently figured out what was wrong with .ml and its users.

The less of that garbage, the better.

Lemmy.ml seems to just downvote different opinions in masse without responding with respect.

After a few attempts to engage respectfully and just getting negative interactions I just blocked them entirely.

I think the whole “saying anything different from what we like? You’re banned” thing is also playing a good part.

I got banned to 40 days from .ml memes for arguing that the republicans were worse than the democrats or something mild like that.

I tried to tolerate .ml because they’ve got some good linux and foss focused communities. Ultimately I decided it wasn’t worth it.

My rebuttal to this post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45909409

Like it or not, we can shine a light and hope they see.

I am as libertarian (as opposed to authoritarian) as they come, and I still hope I (and others who share my sentiment) will be able to convince them the merits of a world with human rights, diplomacy, and freedom — that is not needlessly violent and forceful.

We can move past barbarism, but to do so we must define what comes next to those who have shut their hearts to the truth — especially to those who have spent arguably too much time reliving the horrific violence of the 20th century.

I don’t need to boycott them, I don’t feel the need to block them. Everybody is within their rights to do so though, but I will keep slowly trying to win them over to the idea of a more kind and free world.

Creating Lemmy and the fediverse is of incredible value to humanity. They provided a timely medicine to the internet — a decentralized platform that is not controlled by an American corporation and ruled by algorithms. I don’t feel like it’s a lost cause to do my best.

could you pls put the exclamation marks on the links to those posts in the same way you did for !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ?

thanks for this concise list of stuff .ml has done btw

Idk, I personally find that ML isnt that bad. Granted I may be a bit biased as a leftist but when I discuss my Anarchist positions I see significantly less censorship than world. Furthemore whenever I see massive Transphobic spam attacks its 9/10 from world. In addition I have had far more genuene conversations on ml communities and with ml users. However I cannot say the same for world users/communities which are known to shut down discussion by calling it “tankie” (yes even Anarchist discussion). Due to that it has become abundantly clear to me that the term “tankie” has very little if anything to do with authoritarianism and everything to do with leftism.