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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
Source: https://lemmy.world/post/31072696/17552649
Modlog: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?community=189&user=3711996
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I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I also find it odd that you don't seem to find their behavior "demoralizing and depressing"
For the most part, I just use tools and features built-in to Lemmy, like the cross-posting functionality. The most automation I use is simple notifications (e.g. I'm not manually "crawling through the modlog", it's just a (very buggy) python script that fires off a notification upon a matching set of conditions)
But yet, you're perfectly cool with them straight up exploiting a known weakness/design flaw in the Lemmy-verse to further their goals?? Where's your condemnation of that behavior. I'm not even the first, or last, user they've done that sort of thing to before. And even in some cases going further and straight up attempting to doxx users.
There's so much evidence and documentation, that I could form a mega thread on it, with everything from numerous examples of blatant censorship/micromanaging in furtherance of a toxic political agenda to allowing the spread of known propaganda/misinformation and repeating Russian/China talking points like Russia's Ukraine invasion being just a negotiating tactic or that the Uyghur Genocide was just birth control overblown
And your response was to handwave all that away with, "Just ignore them and any damage they do to the nascent Thrediverse"?
Which BTW, might have been viable, too bad they see proper user/instance blocking as a threat to their ability to spread their "message" so it still doesn't work properly after 4 years despite something like that being important enough that it should be considered a core feature
Sure, okay, let's say I'm demoralised and depressed about all that too. My potential for unhappiness knows no limit.
It doesn't change the fact that I find the ways in which you're perpetuating your endless feud with Lemmy's developers to be overly disruptive. As a compromise, would you at least consider packing in the reposting of questions asked to asklemmy@lemmy.ml to the community on world?
That's not using existing functionality. It's not a question for which you're genuinely seeking an answer. The pollution from mindless crossposting of URL-based posts can be mitigated somewhat, but it's a harder problem to solve for text-based ones. Also, traffic from lemmy.world is more than all the traffic from every other instance combined, so there's no value in needlessly adding to it.
Thanks.
I'm doing what I do because I have identified 2 main reasons holding back other instances from defederation (which is the ultimate goal, as wide of defederation as the rest of the Triad is treated); 1) .ml has "big" comms and niche comms, 2) Lack of evidence/overtness
2 is addressed by my documentation of the mod log and posting here, there are some other behind the scenes stuff I'm working on to further this pain point as well, but not ready for prime time just yet
1 is addressed by my cross-posting, I do generally aim for non.world comms where possible. I also try to compensate my cross-posts on a 1:2 ratio. For every .ml crosspost I try to post 2 articles/content that I've come across on my own aka "organic posts"
I use https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month for final judgement, (usually the comm closest to dethroning the .ml version of a comm in MAUs, if that's a .world comms but another off-world one is close enough, I'll choose that instead. If an off-world comm already beats the .ml comm, I'll go to the next off-world, off-ml version as is the case with !technology@lemmy.world, my current favorite is forwarding to !technology@lemmy.zip
That's fair, and honestly text based posts took the longest for me to cross-post because of that, until I eventually settled on the "Original question/text by" format
As far as !asklemmy@lemmy.world goes, I was actually made aware that asklemmy leap frogged the .ml version and I had just started directing those posts towards !ask@lemm.ee ....and then the .ee shutdown was announced so I halted going there.
There's a bunch of specific ask"X" comms, but no other general asklemmy comms (at least as far as I could see from .world) if you have a suggestion on that, id be more than happy to send to a different smaller comm/instance
Also, just because I didn't think of it first, doesn't mean I'm not invested in the answers LMAO asklemmy cross-posts remain the most skipped, I'm often only doing ones that I have at least some level of interest in seeing the answers
Thank you for doing your part in growing smaller instance communities!
This community is always a such a rollercoaster of almost self awareness.
There's like just two or three other people so fixated on this topic. It's been fascinating to watch these last few years.
Hi, I'm the fourth person. I'm pretty interested in calling out people spreading misinformation about my country and glorifying terrorists that are currently invading it.
Can you go into more detail?
Self fulfilling prophecies, if you will.
That's less detail.
ZombiFrancis is a perennial tankie defender that pops up to Just Ask Questions and the like whenever an issue like murdering Ukrainians or CCP authoritarianism comes up.
Can you go into more detail?