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?

  • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
    42·
    21 days ago

    hello fellow millenial-feels anarchist, what’s WPT?

    personally i only beef with hexbear. justworks seems about the same as world

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
      93·
      21 days ago

      Justworks has some dedicated anti-leftism communities. Essentially folks dedicated to having a problem with Lemmy existing as long as it is made and maintained by communists.

        • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
          44·
          21 days 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·
            21 days 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·
              20 days 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)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                2·
                20 days 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·
                  20 days 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.

                  • Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                    2·
                    20 days ago

                    TIL about AES. I’ll probably look into that. Any idea of a community where we could have that conversation? I have several alts, so whatever instance would work

            • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
              32·
              20 days 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.

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        54·
        21 days ago

        Having a problem with ML communist (communities) is not the same as having a problem with Lemmy

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      21 days ago

      Hey there! WPT is WhitePeopleTwitter. Yeah you’re right it’s not too different from world really. I think my experience is just more happenstance haha