Man, I was all on board with this idea. Federated instances made so much sense to me. But it's tankies all the way down, and it's just not worth my time anymore. Hell, if the largest instance bans you seconds after you call out a tankie mod, where can you escape? Great idea, terrible execution. Everyone wants lemmy to grow, well, until the nazis and tankies are gone, that shit just ain't gonna happen.

Y'all have fun.

Except the nazis/tankies.

Y'all go play in traffic.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago

Theres still hundreds of options for you to try, including Kbin which is completely different from Lemmy.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Sounds like you want to either create an account on Lemmy.world where all the tankie and fash instances are already blocked or wait a few weeks/months for the user specific domain blocking update to go through.

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[–] lgstarn@kbin.social 25 points 2 years ago

Man, I did not realize how much I missed this kind of dumb high school drama type of social media post until I saw this one.

Oh no Brian, please don't go... the Fediverse needs you! 😂

Thanks for the soap opera fix!

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago

You know what's more effective than a post about leaving?

Just leaving.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't see many tankies, maybe its the communities you're subscribed to?

[–] BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I've seen very little. Theyre mostly congregated on hexbear and keep to themselves unless summoned.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same here, I have 3 instances blocked and don’t really see tankie crap. Just tons of spam.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Nice instance name!

[–] Narrrz@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i browse nothing but all. I've seen maybe a handful of posts that maybe featured a single tankie in the comments.

granted, I'm on kbin. maybe that's making the difference

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm on kbin too. I haven't seen any of the things that I see a lot of posts complaining about. (Beehaw, hexbear)

I'm also pretty far left. I'm not a tankie though. I'm curious how much of the complaining is just right wingers bitching about reasonable opinions

[–] IronCorgi@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that's what a lot of this is. I'm at the point where I'm more annoyed about the people complaining about tankies that I ever was about tankies.

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

100%.
I'm going to start blocking any complaints about tankies.

[–] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Good luck finding a safe space where everyone agrees only with you.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Or make your own, like the tankie mod is doing.

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[–] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know there is other instances that is more focused on other stuff than what you're referring to right?

Lemmy.world for instance just defederated from Leningrad.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 5 points 2 years ago

From Leningrad? Impressive :-D

[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 12 points 2 years ago

Cringe lol

[–] Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 2 years ago

You're not a train, you don't have to announce your departure.

[–] jabeez@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you see "tankies" in the room with you right now?

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[–] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Waaa there aren't enough reactionaries, waa

[–] NuMetalAlchemist@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 2 years ago

Interesting take.

[–] Ryan213@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never heard of "tankie" before...can I just google it?

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to communists who express support for one-party communist regimes that are associated with Marxism–Leninism, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberals and right‐wing factions as well.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I love how people still think it’s the 1950’s.

Grow up loser dad who probably never got an actual education or has any experience traveling.

[–] NuMetalAlchemist@lemmy.blahaj.zone -4 points 2 years ago

What in tarnation!? 🤠

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

From seeing your responses in this thread, your opinion is not what got you banned, your attitude is. You for sure should be banned even if you were talking that way while agreeing with the people that would be banning you.

If you don't want bad things to happen to you on social media, don't post while angry.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

kbin.social + aggressive blocking magazines is pretty cool

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 3 points 2 years ago

Tbf, most of the fediverse isn't lemmy.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Just ban them yourself, and you will end up with tankie free community.

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great idea, terrible execution.

That sounds kind of like communism. lol

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[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I just block the instances, which one can do on kbin.social. Easy way to not have to bother with the dictatorship and genocide supporting tankie trash.

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Ok champ

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No matter what, “tankie” will always sound so goddamn stupid. I’ll never get over learning that was even a thing until getting on this platform.

If you really want to entertain us take a selfie and post it.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Kbin is a bit saner on average, in my experience.

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