When did the lemmygrad defederation happen?
Chris Remington mod
A couple of days ago. alyaza
about aug 10, mostly motivated by their lack of moderation/lack of compatibility with our values but also because we’re trying to figure out why our server is using so much more space than it should be (because if we don’t figure it out soon our hosting costs will need to double). one of the presumptions is who we federate with has something to do with it and lemmygrad was the biggest place we federated with, but we don’t really have overlap with their userbase so it doesn’t make very much sense to assume any additional load they might be adding.
Good. I went to the lemmygrad instance once and saw it was completely filled with tankies spouting Chinese and Russian propaganda. I guess it’s good they’ve isolated themselves, like with exploding-heads being an r/the_donald cesspool.
This is what I enjoy about Lemmy. Back on reddit you sometimes stepped into shit came across fucking nazis, here you sometimes run into tankies. It’s kinda familiar yet different.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Just go to lemmygrad and you’ll see on their front page. Check the comments. It’s a weird place.
I absolutely love seeing Trump Nazis and Tankies both spouting Russian propaganda.
It’s a refreshing reminder that politics isn’t a spectrum - it’s a circle. If you go too far left or too far right, you loop right back around. Another way to view it - if you add hate and intolerance into your politics, you end up a piece of shit no matter which side you’re on.
Be careful with this line of thought. It’s called Horseshoe theory and is usually parroted by right wing authoritarians to falsely discredit leftist points of view. Ironic that they are using some of their own beliefs to do it, isn’t it?
More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
That being said, there surely are authoritarian leftists and they do not deserve any of your time. However, their authoritarianism usually is not born out of hatred like right wingers but out of impotence against the hierarchies that dominate our lives. Of course, as in everything, YMMV.
Edit to add: it’s important to mention that a lot of pro China and pro Russia discourse is astroturfing so it’s not really people declaring earnest beliefs.
Weird, it was in my hot feed, I didn’t even look at the date. Had no idea lemmy was even a year old!
Just because it’s contrary to American propaganda doesn’t make it Russian/Chinese propaganda.
The origin of the label ‘Tankies’ is from British communists supporting the USSR’s party line and specifically to defend the use of tanks to suppress dissent in the Hungarian revolution of 1956.
It’s a self-applied label and it’s in fact very explicitly and by definition Pro-Russian propaganda and more recently Pro-Chinese as well.
Why is a 11 months old post showing up on the feed?
