It's also cute that Dbzer0 keeps tabs on me even after instance-blocking my accounts for calling out this same admin on genocide apologia.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
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db0 has become really friendly twoards tankies
A lot of users from that community are literally alt accounts of .ml users and they use the instance to gain access to the places that defederated from them.
Tankies like to subvert left-libertarian movements by infiltrating them. If only they did the same to fascists (while many groups require rigorous hazing rituals and sending them your personal details, others are too dumb for them, and thus a pretty good target for infiltration).
Tankies are fascists with a weird coat of paint on them.
It's very worrisome. Can you go into detail about those alt accounts?
Who's the alts? Names, links, proof?
Edit: Welp, guess there's no proof. 48 hours and nothing.
Unruffled is, at least to me, pretty clearly just referring to authoritarian states by the ML's own preferred term, not suggesting it's genuinely a socialist state. This reading seems to be confirmed by being directly followed up with a recommendation to ban communities that support those states instead of whole defederation.
I don't think it's terribly controversial that .world and SJW does tend to generate the majority of reported users besides drive-by accounts on poorly moderated instances, if only by virtue of both of them being the biggest instances.
Not to say I haven't had reports for .ml users either, but their stance isn't unreasonable.
Yeah, if you read what was written then the thread title doesn't make much sense.
I would’ve bought that a few months ago, but considering that Unruffled has since done a 180 on such issues like “Does Critical Support for the PRC make someone a tankie?”, I’m disinclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Using the preferred terminology of tankies when not talking to tankies, and when talking to someone who is anti-tankie in a bid to get them to accept tankies, is extremely questionable. Saying that the frequency is greater also suggests that it’s not absolute size of problematic users that’s being discussed.
That they assert that anarchists should have more in common with a red fascist instance than ‘liberal’ instances (which are far to the left of what most actual liberals would accept) is also telling.
Also, considering Hexbear’s extremely aggressive posture, trying to portray them as ‘less problematic’ than .world or SJW is extremely questionable.
But I'm sure the commenter who has 'never seen a tankie' on Lemmy and constantly licks Russian imperialist boots and plays apologist for Ukrainian genocide is posting entirely in good faith. :)
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I would've bought that a few months ago, but considering that Unruffled has since done a 180 on such issues like "Does Critical Support for the PRC make someone a tankie?", I'm disinclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Using the preferred terminology of tankies when not talking to tankies, and when talking to someone who is anti-tankie in a bid to get them to accept tankies, is extremely questionable. Saying that the frequency is greater also suggests that it's not absolute size of problematic users that's being discussed.
That they assert that anarchists should have more in common with a red fascist instance than 'liberal' instances (which are far to the left of what most actual liberals would accept) is also telling.
Also, considering Hexbear's extremely aggressive posture, trying to portray them as 'less problematic' than .world or SJW is extremely questionable.
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Makes perfect sense.
Tankies want Anarchy in the West, Order in the East.
More like "Tankies love making naive anarchists into useful idiots for fascism."
Dbzer0 has long been a tankie alt haven.
Especially popular with the corporate Ai simps and Russian trolls.
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