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.
But interesting that yet you still want to use the technology they develop and you want to post their posts.
If you’re joining us on our platform, using our stuff, and enjoying our content… Maybe you don’t hate us as much as you think?
For one, I filter out all the bs propaganda and Tankie posts that gets posted there and keep just the actual decent posts.
For two, unlike Tankies, I’m actually capable of nuance. I can recognize someone’s accomplishments and condemn their ideology/behavior. On top of that, it’s open source software whose coding is almost entirely free of influence of their authoritarianism so therefore I can use it without supporting the author in any shape or form. (Ya know separating the art from the artist and all that)
When I talk with outside people I generally tell them to use a PF instance instead as well as encouraging people to donate their money to individual instances instead of to Lemmy Tankie devs directly.
Common Tankie conflation, not all communists are Tankies but all Tankies are authoritarian communists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
For one, I filter out all the bs propaganda and Tankie posts that gets posted there and keep just the actual decent posts.
For two, unlike Tankies, I’m actually capable of nuance. I can recognize someone’s accomplishments and condemn their ideology/behavior. On top of that, it’s open source software whose coding is almost entirely free of influence of their authoritarianism so therefore I can use it without supporting the author in any shape or form. (Ya know separating the art from the artist and all that)
When I talk with outside people I generally tell them to use a PF instance instead as well as encouraging people to donate their money to individual instances instead of to Lemmy Tankie devs directly.