I’ve seen around 3 occasions of that this week, altho I have never seen anything like it before.

if I remember correctly they were:

  • smack talking a mod (FlyingSquid) for saying not to report the same comment twice, when they were different comments, and the report was spam
  • someone comparing .world with .ml in politics (as in there was a comment saying "this post will be overrun with .ml people, and then a comment going “but you are from .world”) (Maybe Im part of the problem? I have been called out for being a fascist because I questioned the “puching nazis” theme)
  • one more which I can’t remember.

Anyways, what is all that about? Are people really starting to hate on 50% of the lemmy population because of their instance?

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    2 months ago

    MeanwhileOnGrad is a ‘just making lists’ community. The quality and credibility is closer to ToiletPaperUSA for the most part since they had users misrepresenting interactions for a while. Dunno if that’s still the case but it has been back with a vengeance the last month or so.

    • socsa@piefed.social
      65·
      2 months ago

      Shitting on tankies is pro leftism though. Tankies are not leftists, they are fascists with a bad paint job. Enumerating how their ideals diverge from modern leftist philosophy is both common sense and good praxis.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
        41·
        1 month ago

        I’ve yet to see someone actually mean anything other than “Marxist” when they describe what a tankie is, it’s similar to the word “woke.” It’s nebulous and ill-defined, so now it just means “Marxist,” and thus is a left-punching term.

        • Blaze (he/him)English
          2·
          1 month ago

          Hello,

          This might not be the best place of all, but what do you think about this example of instance-level banning for pointing out removal of comments critical to the CCP?

          https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

          It’s mostly that behavior I have in mind when I think about “tankies”

          • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
            21·
            1 month ago

            The best place to have that convo certainly isn’t a .world thread. The least spicy way of putting it is that Marxists defend AES.

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        32·
        2 months ago

        It might be if there was much effort to establish any tankie ideal beyond a user being registered on .ml. It’s a lot of ‘so you hate waffles’ level of reaction and discourse unfortunately.