I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I “surprisingly haven’t found any bigotry.”

I’m wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it’s rare, my guess is that even though it’s decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I’m guessing it’s easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    A comment on my other account got brigaded by tankies a while ago. Was told to “fuck off, liberal”

    But then that guy got banned from the instance, and everything was good.

    • Alien Surfer
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      41 year ago

      Hi, I’m not in in the know. What’s a tankie? Pardon my ignorance.

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        1 year ago

        Short version? Mix and match the following:

        • Pro Xi Jinping
        • Pro Joseph Stalin
        • Pro Mao
        • Pro use of tanks against civilians as in Tiananmen Square in 1989 or Hungary in 1956.
        • Pro Vladimir Putin

        Basically a tankie is any apologist for government violence against civilians – whose apologetics usually go something like, “those weren’t real civilians. That was a color revolution. The government of [authoritarian regime] responded with no more than the necessary amount of force. Western propaganda is making it look more violent than it was in reality.”

        From Wikipedia

        The term “tankie” was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to crush the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring uprising, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

        • Alien Surfer
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          21 year ago

          Thanks. Did not know that. So tankie is short for military tank. I get it.

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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      31 year ago

      Yeah theres a few too many genocide apologists hanging around, but (just to spite them) i dont want them to be banned. Its better they stay here and see the light

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Yeah if they’re banned then they’ll go back to their bubble saying they’re being silenced, but how can you silence someone who’s not contributing to the conversation?.. I’m fine with different opinions, but I don’t understand people who think the way to convince someone of your viewpoint is hostility. Telling someone to “fuck off” with no reason is just toxic. Once might be a bad mood/state of mind (happens to the best of us), but repeat offenders shouldn’t be allowed to keep harassing others.

        • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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          21 year ago

          Perspective. That comment says more about a person who cant concieve of a logical rebuttal than it says about me. I dont want to live on sesame street. That said, those comments get old reeeeal fast