• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
        53·
        1 month ago

        Lemmy, in general, is left leaning with the lead dev and “main” instance being unabashedly tankies.

        Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there. The ml crowd is generally still worth talking to. Whereas the hexbear crowd immediately jump to harassment the moment they decide you failed a purity test because you advocated for a social program rather than insisting the entire system needs to be burned down and a managed economy run by putin put in its place.

        Needless to say: Anyone who spends enough time “on lemmy” is either on an instance that banned hexbear or muted them themselves.

        • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          14·
          1 month ago

          Appreciate the explanation. I’ve seen some remarks about the instance in passing, I’ve just never paid close enough attention to how communities have interacted with each other in the past.

        • Amanduh@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          I leave em, it’s fun to watch them go and post their stickers, it’s almost like twitch chat

      • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
        25·
        1 month ago

        When I accidentally interacted with one of their communities, it basically felt like a tankie 4chan. After that I just banned the entire instance.

      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        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”)

          • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            30 days 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              30 days 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.worldEnglish
                3·
                30 days 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.eeEnglish
            3·
            30 days 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.