The instance itself. The admins, half of whom are openly tankies and actively participate in Hexbear troll campaigns, are all tech bros who love their AI and will actively silence users who are critical of it.

I wouldn’t recommend dbzer0. Since the AI purge, where many users who were critical that you can’t be pro-AI and anarchist at the same time were banned, the instance has been largely taken over by tankies. Even their own admins are self-proclaimed tankies, and all their popular users are tankies who have accounts on Hexbear. They’re, at the very least, openly a tankie bar.

Lemmy.ml was created by the lemmy developers following the quarantine of ChapoTrapHouse on reddit. ChapoTrapHouse was the largest tankie subreddit and extremely toxic.

Following the development of Lemmy, lemmy.ml split into Lemmygrad, where Lemmygrad is where they hold their more extreme opinions and lemmy.ml is supposed to be the more presentable side. However, the users are largely the same. One’s mask-off, one’s mask-on.

omg he’s still following you? what’d you do to trigger him so much?

but you do ban users who are from !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

Piefed was created because users weren’t happy that the developers spend more time arguing on tankie talking points and censoring dissent than developing Lemmy.

in what way?

because by lemmy definitions thinking that israel can still exist as a sovereign state makes you a nazi lol

whats that mean

Never said anything about imperialism. Only that they’re not corporate media.

Chinese media is also imperialist. Any media that is controlled by an imperialist state is imperial media.

ah yes, corporate media such as… the BBC

truly yank brained

I’d say be the change you want to see, but it seems pointless. Maybe once trump and putin carks it

I agree, but I don’t think fairness or honesty really exists anymore. Or rather, there’s no incentive for people to engage in such.

Why should I bother to engage in any conversation with you when you’ve proven in these very replies that you brigade and get others to dogpile with you? Why do you insist on having a thread instead of just DMing me? Not that I want you to.

Tell you what: if you’re actually earnest and acting in good faith about this, you should call off the dogpile and ask for peace between the communities. But I doubt it.

I’m banned from YPTB and the chatroom, and so are most MWoG users. That’s because dbzer0 is a tankie instance and YPTB is a tankie community that protects said tankies.

If you stand by all of it, don’t complain about your ban, since if you stand by all of it, you know you were brigading, and you know that’s against the rules of my community. You’re proving my point by threatening to create YPTB threads. You’re proving my point by actively linking this comment chain to the chatroom.

Or do you think your ban was unjust and you should be unbanned?

Honestly I don’t think there’s such a thing as good faith when it comes to political discussions on the internet. I’m not going to argue with him either, I don’t consider it worthy of my time.

What’s good faith to you? To me, it’s admitting mistakes.

You regularly post threads you comment on to YPTB’s chatroom so others get involved. YPTB and other such Tankie places also regularly use alts, and as soon as you posted the thread, a few alt accounts popped up arguing with Tankie talking points. That’s brigading, and I’m not going to allow it in my community.

Trying to prove you don’t brigade by posting to a brigade community is certainly a move. Why should I unban you when you continue to manipulate threads and engage in snark communities?

Explodingheads was also self-proclaimed a troll instance. Just because they fall back on 'It’s just a joke!" doesn’t make what they say or do okay.

I recommend you check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for a deep look at Tankies and how prevalent they are throughout Lemmy.

Don’t let Cowbee propagandise you, that’s what he’s known for, even Tankies celebrate him for it.

He doesn’t argue in good faith, either, don’t believe such nonsense. Just have a look at all the other community posts about his extremism, bigotry and hatred. He’s a Tankie full and through and one of the major reasons why Lemmy is destined to fail.

For example, I humbly ask you to challenge Cowbee on his views of North Korea and Putin. You’ll find he is openly supportive of both.

But you are a tankie, cowbee. Why do you keep denying this?

Meanwhileongrad is only a toxic community if you go into the community to argue in favour of tankie talking points or otherwise defend them.

If you believe that violence and bigotry isn’t okay then you won’t encounter toxicity.