MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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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.
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I think your home instance, ~~sh.itjust.works~~ (whoops, that's this community's instance, not your home) (mbin.)grits.dev, defederated from both of them.
My own, jlai.lu, hasn't, so I see some of their posts crop up in my "All" timeline.
Huh, that's not what I was expecting. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
This might be a question of personal tolerance to types of interaction (similarly, not trying to be unkind). I see it as selectively choosing when to engage (and on what to engage with), but I can totally understand if to you that is me editing my viewpoints to conform to what they want to hear. For the record, I don't often engage at all with grad and hexbear, not even up- or down-votes; I'll read what they have to say if the post title I come across sufficiently grabs my attention. There are a number of lemmy.ml communities that I do directly interact with regularly, mostly tech-related.
Given how sometimes aggressively apolitical most of the fediverse tech spaces are, there is a part of the discussion that I value around current events that I have had a hard time finding outside of lemmy.ml. The best I've found are awful.systems and slrpnk.net (notably the permacomputing community at the latter). The scope of the first is intentionally limited to cathartic deconstruction of bad things, and the second I find lacking too much substance to suffice. There's raddle.me, but as they're not federated with the wider 'verse it doesn't really fit the bill either.
I don't have the energy or know-how to be the change I wish to see, but if there was an instance outside of these three (.ml,grad,hexbear) that provided a place for the construction of good things (admittedly, following my personal definition of good) in place of the bad, I could see myself blocking them after one too many full-on tankie posts cropping up in my feed.
Actually, now that I think about it, mostly what I get from the hexbear and grad posts are a less-substantive form of the catharsis that awful.systems provides but on a broader range of topics. It is, sadly a coin toss on whether that catharsis will be ruined by everything you so rightly are put off by.
My experience lines up with yours, except for me not even attempting to prod at all.
I think there's being wrong and proud of it, and there's being so scared and whip-lashed by the obvious contradictions of the West's purported values and it's geopolitical impact on the rest of the world over the past few centuries that you lose any sense of truth. That's maybe me being a bit melodramatic. On the other hand, I see it as akin to how a person's drowning "reflex" is to pull whoever comes close down with them - to the point that lifeguards need specific training (and a flotation device if I'm not mistaken) to be able to save a drowning person without endangering themselves as well.
That's probably closer to the mark. It doesn't help that the former partner has friends all over the world that are very dismissive of any allegations. When I talk about the onus on us to intervene, I mean it more in the sense that we should be finding people that we can train and employ to be internet lifeguards.
On one hand, I don't think they deserve to be written off as heavily as what I often see expressed in the rest of the fediverse. You don't solve someone's trust issues by ragging on their poor follow-up choices. On the other hand, this is online social media, not an irl group of friends and acquaintances. I don't exactly expect any specific person to do the work to reach them via these spaces.
Thanks in any case for trying to productively engage with me on this. This exact conversation is tiring on the best of days.