The term Tankie has a clear definition that Cowbee likes to ignore:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
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I find it very hard to believe, given CowBee’s constant proselytizing, that they do not understand the distinction being made here.
I guarantee you they 100% understand. They simply don’t care and are just being dishonest. They believe the ends justify the means.
That sweet Kremlin dough…
I mean he’s not what they call a useful idiot.
You think cowbee is being paid by the kremlin?
Or being paid by parties in the US who want to make “Communism” look bad.
I think that’s the real source for a lot of tankie bullshit.
All tankies are communists (purportedly), but not all communists are tankies. Tankies believe in Stalin-style militant communism, and will do or say anything to support their ends regardless of if it’s objectively true or not. They will deny all harms that are caused by anyone who claims to be a communist.
Basically they’re MAGA in a different claimed direction.
Wait…pretty sure contemporary Russia is CINO and even then just barely as they’ve gone capitalist in the ‘90s. I could understand the pedantics if it was expressly the USSR (Don’t agree with it, as an anarchist obvs, but still) or “critical support” for China, but here-and-now Russia?
Always has been 🌍👨🚀🔫🧑🚀
Communism is classless and stateless. Somehow I find it hard to believe when the political class from a given state says they’re communist.
Sadly, but ml instance has also communities that are focused on non-political themes like tech stuff, so for now it has sense to block each community on ml except the normal ones.
Blocking all ML is the best solution. They offer nothing
Okay, taking into account that many people here are longer than me and are actually seem to be solid right, why instances then don’t simply defederate themselves from ml? Like they have done it with hexbear instance?
A few have, but it’s been brought up before
Some don’t want to because it’s a “flagship” instance and ther fore has many old comms on it (But on that note, it’s only by subscriber count, which never goes down unless a user actually unsubscribes from a comm, so .ml memes might have 50k subscribers, but the absolute vast majority of that is gonna be dead, deleted and maybe even alt accounts, if we go by Monthly Active User metrics like off of lemmyverse.net you’ll see that very very few .ml comms still beat their non-ml equivalent.)
Some don’t because of fear of retribution from dessalines or at the very least “slow walking” of any issues that might come up, not likely to happen with smaller instances. But if you’re as big as say .world, then that could be a potentially huge problem and would be the exact kind of instance dessalines would choose to flex this retribution on as a message.
Some don’t because they prefer to have their users decide for themselves (e.g. dbzer0.com) or have an alternative such as lemmy.zip’s default block which block the whole triad for new users. Which is fair, there should be instances on the Threadiverse that are unfiltered for uh “Politically thick skinned users” but they should not be put forth to prospective users from Threadiverse advocates looking to bring users from reddit.
And then there are some that do, infosec.pub and Lemmy.cafe are the 2 that come to mind, but I’m sure there are more
Thanks for the info.
The Lemmy developers created .ml making it the “flagship” instance and giving it a high user count unrelated to it’s politics. I’ve also seen some people express fear of some sort of retribution if they defederate from ml, but I personally think that’s a bit overblown
Oh the retribution is real. ML are disgraceful humans. But they’ve got accounts on every instance, so the only thing an ml defed would accomplish is fragmentation.
Many have.
Some do. More should.
Or, for every community that lacks a mirror on a sane instance, create one.
Well, until these mirrors are created my statement is valid, I guess.
There’s a mirror for nearly every .ml comm of note, and in a lot of cases a few different mirrors across a bunch of instances.
For example, linux (in order of size) has !linux@lemmy.world and !linux@programming.dev and !linux@sh.itjust.works and !linux@sopuli.xyz and !linux@discuss.tchncs.de
I also crosspost all (good) .ml content to drive comm activity off .ml to non-ml equivalent comms and whenever I do encounter one that doesn’t have a non-mo equivalent I make one
So lmk what .ml comms you peruse and I’ll tell you the closest non-ml version or I’ll make it myself if it has recent activity or you could also use Lemmyverse.net which is a fantastic tool for Threadiverse comm discovery
Okay, thanks.
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