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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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")

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 minutes 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)