Fediverse memes

tankies => historical revisionism and genocide denial.

I don’t really care if they are authoritarian communists, I care that they deny or try to embellish massive human rights absuses and human suffering.

To expand:

On .ml, you'll likely end up being banned for "bigotry" if you dare criticize certain authoritarian regimes. The mods and admins cannot handle any sort of dissent, so censorship is quite heavy there. You'll even get banned from unrelated communities. It's the least toxic of the "Big Three" tankie instances, but still not a great place to be. There's also the issue of overcentralization since it's such a large instance, as getting an unwarranted ban can block off access to a good chunk of communities.

Grad is .ml but more extremist. They're widely defederated for good reason, as their users are pretty horrible to anyone they consider a shitlib. I can't say much about them from personal experience as they've been defederated with my instance for as long as I've been here, but many have alts on .ml where they do engage in shitty behaviour.

Hexbear is by far the worst. Take grad, and turn the hostility up to 11. If you say the wrong thing, it may end up posted in their "dunk tank" where they'll then proceed to harass you as a group for days or longer, even taking it to DMs. They do not federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they federate in order to push their agenda and "dismantle Western propaganda". And by that, they actually mean flooding threads with oversized emotes and graphic pictures of pigs shitting on their own testicles when they decide to brigade. They're also widely defederated for good reason, and most threads involving defederating with them have plenty of examples of their awful conduct outside of their instance. Many have alts on other instances to bypass said defederation though.

Sounds about right.