Deceptichum

For the non-tankies

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

It’s more of a term to point out that someone is the left equivalent of a Neo Nazi.

You are making this about Lemmy.ml to change the subject from this being about the Lemmy devs themselves. You like to deflect a lot I’ve noticed.

Q.E.D.

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Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.

Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

We didn’t want to be lending any form of support to developers who deny genocide and promote transphobia.

So we found a more ethical solution and than it turns out the developers are fucking amazing and it’s progressing so fast that it’s leaving Lemmy in the dust. Many people are now moving because it’s offering features and improvements that the Lemmy devs refused to.

Nah, you’re a tankie.

You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.

IIRC a few instances are de-federated from .today due to how rightwing/conservative it is. So it’s a bit like shadowbanning yourself.