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[โ€“] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"The tankie migration..." ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

Especially after the tankie migration, there were definitely some people who saw the front page and clicked away.

[Y]ou would maybe see a text post of someone mocking western reporting on the Uyghur genocide.

There was one lemmy instance that ran on ideals of free speech. [...] Honestly the owner, though definitely right wing, was a pretty chill guy, [...] Kinda unfortunate the instance died, considering people still complain about lack of ideological diversity on Lemmy.

Written by a centrist

[โ€“] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lemmygrad was on Lemmy since pretty much the beginning, and Hexbear joined the next year in July 2020. So who were these tankies who migrated, and when?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Might be referring to r/genZedong/ getting quarantined, that's when we had a big influx of comrades here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I just realized the portmanteau "gen Zedong" makes less sense to Americans because they pronounce it zee.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

haha yeah that doesn't have the same ring to it

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As an american, I'm now confused. How should it be pronounced?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"z" is typically "zed" in Bri'ish English

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Ahhh, Okay.

So I would normally say 'gen zee dong', but its really 'gen "zed"-ong'.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

"Jen zee dong" still works in real English.