.ml is a tankie instance not because of the bulk of the users, I do not judge any user, .ml or otherwise, until I have seen them or seen evidence of them commenting Tankie ideology or defending it.

.ml is deemed a tankie instance because the admins and many of the mods not only are hardcore tankies themselves but also enforce the ideology throughout their instance via admin/mod action

.ml is the most subtle of the Tankie Triad and because they host some official Lemmy support comms often get treated with “kid gloves” by the other instances and don’t get defed’d from like the rest of the tankie triad does (Hexbear and Lemmygrad)

Checkout [email protected] if you want to see more

Actually, because the .ml admins block that comm so you can’t see it, you’ll need to use this link through another instance: https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Don’t worry he’s fine, another person DMd me who has direct contact with him and he has actually simply quit Lemmy/social media.

I haven’t posted it because the only way I know it’s legit is because the user copy pasted FSs response directly and it’s def something he’d write imo, but…hmmm…I’d rather not go into detail on it let’s just say that LMAO

But he’s probably fine

hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

Understatement of the year LMAO

lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want.

Uh nah, they’re tankies, they’re authoritarian communists essentially

I just wish there was a remote desktop app that took advantage of the Android Fold API so that it splits the desktop into the first half of the screen and uses the other for an on-screen trackpad/keyboard.

It would be perfect, but alas I haven’t found one yet :(

Lol I very much want them, my foldy phone solves every problem that a tablet solves, if I had had a tablet near me when I needed it that is. Which, since it’s a secondary device needing to be carried in addition, I never did. Ever.

Now whenever something happens and I get stuck somewhere longer or just waiting at an airport or just waiting for something in general a common thought of the past would be “damn I wish I had a bigger screen/brought tablet with me”. I haven’t thought that thought in over 2 years since I made the switch.

It’s the first damn “tablet” I’ve ever had in my love that actually got used LMAO

I wish .world would publish their hardware, I’ve been quite curious as to what they’re running on lol

The Lemmy docs do go cover a bit on rolling releases, but it’s not recommended for large jumps or any upgrade that involves a database migration

I apply it where it’s justified, Yogthos is infamous for it, along with davel and head honcho themself dessalines

.ml is labeled a tankie instance because dessalines and davel are admins who censor any non-tankie dissent/speech

I haven’t seen anything I would classify as ‘patriotic’ socialism. Those types get roundly mocked when they show up. There are a lot of positive opinions of the USSR, but I haven’t seen anyone seriously saying Russia in the current day is anything but a reactionary hellhole to live in.

But I have seen those kinds of comments, ok take [email protected] out of the equation and the “out of context” screenshots as you call them.

I have personally read and even gotten into “debates” with the infamous .ml tankies like davel, dessalines and yogthos that did say things like Russia is great and Putin is a great leader fully justified to invade Ukraine, that there is no censorship in China and that NK isn’t a brutal dictatorship

What’s the rationale there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

Yea, “authoritarianism praiser” is too unwieldy, maybe I could balance it out with “authoritarianist”?

Haha no, I’m certainly not a tankie lmaooo

You’ve said more than every tankie I’ve ever seen, I don’t even think you’re that much of a tankie. You’ve always been the “odd one out” tankie whenever I’ve seen you around.

Do you honestly not see what the folks you defend say? Just saying “Russia sucks” earnestly like that, is probably the first time I’ve seen that. The closest I’ve ever seen out of a tankie was similar to “even if they are that bad, it’s totally worth it because the West is sooo much worse…”

This has got to be the first politically related comment from you I’ve ever upvoted. Ya know Diva I’ve never tagged you as a tankie or defender like the others, I could never find a proper tag for your profile, your comments are always…odd with what I’ve come to expect from tankies and their defenders.

I do not think I have seen you once criticize China or Russia, because if you had you would be more in line with me than you think.

Every government has done things worthy of praise and condemnation. To me an anarchist, at the very least, would be shitting on all the governments from the US to the CCP to the DPRK and everywhere in between

But I don’t see that from you or any other known tankie who also claims to be an anarchist. You have a pretty clear pattern of criticizing the West and then covering for what should be criticized of the CCP/Russia/NK etc.

“Vibes based” hilarious considering I’ve been collecting actual hard documentation of what y’all say and do, and it’s right in line with the definition of a tankie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereo

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/tankie

(politics, slang, derogatory, by extension) A supporter of policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, Cuba or other authoritarian socialist (chiefly Marxist-Leninist) governments.

It’s right there in the sidebar:

Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.

Tankies are defined as authoritarian “communists”

YDI you went to a thread with a specific anti-tankie topic in a comm that is explicitly no tankies

Iirc, Broadcom (big surprise I’m sure lmao) is also shit with Linux support

Wait what did mastodon do? Lol