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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
(www.theguardian.com)
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I've been slowly getting back into reddit lately. While I want Lemmy to thrive and will keep contributing to help it do so it's still hardly a replacement for reddit. Compared to it, Lemmy is basically a single moderately active subreddit. If I had to name a type of person Lemmy at its current state is ideal for I'd say a left-wing activist type whose into tech and politics. While that has some overlap with what I'm interested about it still leaves out all my deepest passions and to be honest I feel really uncomfortable knowingly being in such an obvious echo chamber. I'd really wish there was more of the kind of users here that most of you probably dont want. Just to even things out a bit.
Which is cringe inducing in looking for certain types of left-wingers. There are more tankies here than in other Internet forums I have seen. I'd be rich for penny I get for meeting tankies in Lemmy. They call out American imperialism, but then simp for Russia and China. Two wrongs don't make a right and they expect to have one but not the other. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if Russian bots have also infiltrated Lemmy to sow disinformation.
Doesn't sound different from the early days of Reddit.
I see way more comments complaining about tankies on a regular basis than actual tankies
Americans are pretty right leaning. So anything leftish is unfamiliar. I think tankie has become an all encompassing term for anything left of "normal", or unfamiliar.
Ehh once you see it you can spot the Tankie arguments pretty fast. Usually it starts as some sort of nitpick or factual correction regarding Russia, China, or another country in their sphere of influence, then some overarching opinion that sounds okay on the surface but the moment you put more than a few seconds of thought in you realize its wrong, sprinkle in some vague and slightly conspiratorial-sounding references to not falling for propaganda, then usually it devolves into pointing out something bad the US has done as a false equivalency while conveniently avoiding the finer points on why it's a false equivalency. Oh and they never mention the Nazis because their arguments so frequently are perfect arguments to also defend the Nazis, but they at least know it's a bad look to align with Nazis.
Personally I will call out racism/apologism/transphobia with a 2 reply limit then block, because I do not want that to be normalized, but also people posting such comments tend to be trolls who enjoy arguing in bad faith. I did also block the entire hexbear instance on my account (it's an option the settings now!) because that's not just random redfacists but an echo chamber for redfacists to continuously reinforce their beliefs.
Is your defederated from hexbear and lemmy grad? They're all pretty concentrated there
blahaj lemmy is indeed defederated from hexbear, idk about lemmygrad