This is a tremendous post and I'm saddened by the fact that it's buried in this thread where many won't see it. I agree with it wholeheartedly.
I find the term tankies to be egregious. It feels like it targets minorities and is incredibly dismissive. I'm not authoritarian in the slightest and so I will have certain friction in my thought processes with authoritarians, but my views are incredibly left leaning,. I've spent my life learning from my experience and reaching and the only thing I can say for sure is that the right wing elite that rule over us, don't give a fuck about us.
We all saw how communists were villainised around the second world war and that the confirmation bias as a result, lead to what we have now, which is again the right wing elite that rule over us, don't give a fuck about us.
While I definitely want the administration of Lemmy.ML to be better in the way they conduct themselves, I feel that we need their presence for the greatest Fediverse we can create. It's because of that, I feel someone from that team should've come forward and spoken on what happened in an official capacity. If an any time administration take action, send a message and be vocal and open about it. If you don't have the time to do that, I question whether you have the time to making administrative actions.
That said, there's a bunch of communities being created and I'm grateful for that. I want to see all communities move away from the bigger instances and I'll say it again, moving communities away from LW is far more urgent and important. We need different flavours and different ideas and implementations. The best isn't always the biggest.
Ha, no. All the dealings I've had with the LW admins have been overwhelmingly positive. The members, not always so positive but that's more about the thoughtfulness of the people I've come across on smaller instances. It would appear the people that don't just join the biggest instance are more measured in their approach to things and are generally just less entitled acting. It makes them a joy to interact with and the conversations are more thought provoking, which is always a joy.