When I was still somewhat liberal I was active on MetaFilter. The community was groundbreaking in the realm of well-moderated social media networks. For years now they’ve even been paying the moderators for their labor. But over the last several years I less & less could stomach how Uyghur genocide propaganda without question. Standard imperial core lib shit.
Oh lovely, they have more & more to say about tankies these days: https://www.metafilter.com/contribute/search.mefi?site=mefi&q=tankie
And they have things to say about Lemmy tankies in particular.
FWIW Lemmy seems to be problematic, somewhere on the line between “insufficiently antifascist” and “actual tankies.” You may or may not be comfortable using the software on a platform not run by its developers, but the flagship instance apparently has a history of being a bit too comfortable with problematic content and/or instances originating it (e.g. not just federating with but advertising an instance with an actual tank for a logo).
I dunno about you, but I’m too old and too tired to bother trying to figure out when something that uses problematic tropes is doing so ironically. Even when you think you’re doing something ironically, you’re still doing it. I’d rather hang out places where people think better than to keep perpetuating ideas like that, regardless of their intent.
I’m on Beehaw.org, which is Lemmy, but it’s more coop ran with limits: only mods can make new communities, no downvotes, and they don’t do NSFW. It’s user-funded, and I’ll be chipping in later this month. And it’s not tankie infested, that I can tell.
It used to be pretty interesting to read people’s questions with genuine attempts at answering. I paid the $5 to be able to post… Haven’t been back in years though
