The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
hexbear, lemmygrad as well. hexbear make themselves sound"cute" to hopefully trick people into engaging in thier instance, when in fact they are tankies.
Hexbear is openly communist, it doesn’t “try to sound cute to trick people.” That’s genuinely the community, tons of queer communists.
Fyi, you might to clarify that new users should avoid hexbear and lemmygrad.
If someone only skims through the comments, yours can read as an endorsement, especially since the user you replied to had endorsements at the top of their comment
If people are communists, I see no reason why they should avoid the communist instances. If you don’t like communists, wouldn’t you rather they be in instances you’re defederated with or can easily block? People can decide for themselves if they want to stay or not after checking an instance.
Of course, another user of lemmy.ml that can’t figure out the difference between tankies and communists. Why am I not surprised.
I’ve seen communists of every denomination get called tankies. I’ve seen progressive liberals get called tankies by zionists for supporting Palestine. I’ve seen anarchists get called tankies by liberals for saying the Uighur genocide is not real. I’m pretty sure I once saw a conservative get called a tankie by other conservatives for not being far right enough, but I can’t say I remember where.
My point is, it’s really not helpful to act like the word “tankie” actually has some agreed-upon meaning. If you’re generally on the left, some group of people out there will consider you a tankie. I guarantee that, it’s just a matter of waiting and seeing.
If you want to say that there are communists who are authoritarian and there are communists who aren’t say that instead, and we can have another conversation.
“Tankie” is just a pejorative for communists, it’s a strawman that essentially says that the Red Scare was correct, but that that’s a good thing. In reality, the ones called “tankies” have very reasonable views and reasons for supporting existing socialism, the label gets thrown to shut down discussion.