• Agent Karyo
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    114 hours ago

    One point that is fair is that Lemmy has a high number of tankie scum.

    And their accounts are not always hosted on lemmygrad/hexbear/ML.

    This is a legitimate issue.

    • Blaze (he/him) OP
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      114 hours ago

      Do you have any examples of tankie discourse outside of grad/hexbear/ml communities?

      • Agent Karyo
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        314 hours ago

        Mostly in political/news subs. If you avoid politics/news it’s much less noticeable.

        It tends to be relatively subtle (albeit after seeing it several times you do notice a pattern). Statements implying Chinese interactions with foreign countries are purely “for a better world”. Low key, roundabout methods of supporting russian imperialism (“well it’s actually NATO that’s at fault”). That sort of thing.

        FWIW, when/if the threadiverse gets more users (say at least 250K+ MAUs stable), this sort of stuff will be diluted to be less noticeable.