• @aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    they were originally refugees from the reddit ban of r/chapotraphouse (which, while cringy, was not nearly as bad as r/the_donald that got banned in the same wave. but the reddit admins had a thing for being “fair and balanced”)

    • Vik
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      11 month ago

      I’m not familiar with the first subreddit, what was that about?

      • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        Hex, .ml and grad are part of the Tankie Triad. Tankies are authoritarians and often hard to tell apart from far right nutjobs

        • Vik
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          31 month ago

          Oh right. When I first heard about Lemmy, I tried to join .ml because it was the first instance I was made aware of. I think it was being rate limited at the time due to that whole reddit exodus thing, and I wasn’t able to get through, but. .world let me sign up so here I am.

          I’d like to think that members of a given instance have their own opinions. It’s sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

          • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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            21 month ago

            It’s sad to hear about how territorial lemmy is.

            Not really territorial, more… despises authoritarianism in all its forms lol.

            While I’m sure there are plenty of non-tankie .ml users, the problem is with the admins and mods being the biggest Tankies around who enforce the “Tankie ideology” throughout.

            Go checkout .ml memes, anything posted that’s Tankie-like will even sometimes get tons of downvotes as the post gets federated to non-Tankie instances but never removed.

            Conversely, anything posted that’s even slightly critical of China/Russia is quickly removed under the catch-all “Rule 1 bigotry” (You’ll have to check the modlog for that)

      • @aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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        31 month ago

        It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.

        • Vik
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          11 month ago

          Ah right. Appreciate the info!