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    Before I give any criteria, let’s discuss this:

    If you have dug them up N times, just paste them here? No? Just a whole dump of everything you got or an old comment would do.

    Your reply implies I would readily dismiss the evidence… is there any reason you believe that?

    You are wasting everyone else’s time by making claims you can’t back up. I am saying this as someone who hates any authoritarian regime and will do anything to avoid it becoming a reality. We both hate tankies.

    Seems like lots of people in the comment section are also talking about what their eyes are seeing and it contradicts your claim. So whose eyes shall we trust?

    From my limited and personal experience of the .ml instance, I don’t see any of this happening, just lots of tankie-boogyman rhetoric. But my observations are not enough to make a conclusion. And neither are yours. That’s why we need to back it up with evidence. Do you have any indication of any communities on .ml where the mods let this happen openly? If so, please link it.

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      If you have dug them up N times, just paste them here? No?

      Yeah, if I had a better search option for my ~7000 comment long comment history, that might be viable.

      Your reply implies I would readily dismiss the evidence… is there any reason you believe that?

      Yes. Because people are generally stubborn and reluctant to admit that they’re wrong, or that their skepticism is wrong. And because I’ve done this song and dance numerous times before in which the person I was responded with 'No TRUE Scotsman’d their way into rejecting everything I gave them and demanding another dozen fucking examples.

      Seems like lots of people in the comment section are also talking about what their eyes are seeing and it contradicts your claim. So whose eyes shall we trust?

      Lots of people in this comment section are talking about the exact same thing - several people are discussing their personal experiences being banned or banned pre-emptively for going against tankie rhetoric. Are we reading the same fucking comment section?

      From my limited and personal experience of the .ml instance, I don’t see any of this happening, just lots of tankie-boogyman rhetoric. But my observations are not enough to make a conclusion. And neither are yours. That’s why we need to back it up with evidence. Do you have any indication of any communities on .ml where the mods let this happen openly? If so, please link it.

      https://ibb.co/zsbr6MW

      https://ibb.co/TTbQDmb

      https://ibb.co/JHM8357

      https://ibb.co/CWkzC31

      https://ibb.co/zsbr6MW

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        Thanks for the links. I will read them.

        But man, fuck that tone of yours, it sucks.

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          Man, it takes ten fucking seconds of hitting ‘search: local’ to find out any of this shit, or listening to half the fucking commenters in this very thread. If you’re expecting an asspatting tone in that context, you’re out of fucking luck.

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            As I said, your tone sucks ass.

            I am expecting a normal amount of decency. I understand it’s hard when you assume EVERYONE is up against you. I would drop that of I were you.

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        So when you say .ml instances, you mean lemmygrad specifically? I am asking because my understanding is that .ml is just a domain extension.

        So are you thinking that tankies are using .ml as some kind of code? Or do you mean specific instances that happen to share the .ml domain extension?

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            Right okay. I was not aware that there are only two… and I think .ml is general use. If anything I thought it was short for machine learning, like .io is short for input/output.

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              I think there are only two.

              .ml was the domain for the country of Mali. Still is, actually - there was even some light panic a few months ago when Mali started changing terms for usage of the domain. It was chosen for two reasons - one, because the domain was free at the time of Lemmy and Lemmygrad’s founding, and two, because ml is also short for Marxist-Leninist.

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                I see! Thanks for explaining.

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            You are not going to like this…

            Some of these are memes. Some ard discussions. I see the point in a few. Have you tried reporting them?

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                I agree that some are good examples. I think some are exaggerated but I’ll ignore those.

                The overwhelming majority of them are from hexbear finding their way to lemmy.ml. I honestly gotta check who is defederated from who. If we defederate from lemmy.ml, we’d get rid of those but we would be losing a ton of content in communities where there are no insane extremists. What do you think what the best solution would be? I wonder if speaking to lemmy.ml mods about it could help.

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                  The overwhelming majority of them are also very much upvoted, and the tankies ARE the mods themselves on many of the main political communities.

                  I’m not even advocating defederating from Lemmy.ml, unlike Lemmygrad, because I don’t believe that Lemmy.ml brigades or is aggressively toxic towards other instances.

                  But that’s not the same as saying they aren’t infested with tankies, or run by tankies, because they very much are.

                  The only real solution is to be aware of the tankies in lemmy.ml.

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                    Yeah the intro to that Tankie video that person you linked to had posted… jesus.

                    I think your solution is reasonable and preferable to me tbh.