The creators of Lemmy are tankies and have some pretty despicable views, maybe we shouldn’t advertise giving them money.
I like the software, it feels cozy outside some communities from lemmy.ml, and I hope someone forks it eventually, but for now removing the link should be easy to do.
Relevant thread: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
Tankies are insidious in the same way TERFs are. They can seem like comrades and fly under the radar for a long time as long as you don’t broach certain topics, but when you do, holy shit. Suddenly little easy to ignore/not think about things in the things they’ve said come screaming into focus.
I would like to see Pawb maintain its own fork, even if it’s 100% the same except for name and documentation. That way the process and infrastructure are in place to make a clean break if needed.
Yeah, for real. They dress their stuff in lefitst ideas, just like TERFs do with feminism. The worst kind of tankie is one who shows no signs at all, you think it’s someone decent, maybe even worth recommending, and then they suddenly start going down and using whatever following they got to spread propaganda. It’s awful.
I’m sorry, I’m a bit out of the hook here, but what is a tankie? I know what TERFs are, but I’ve never heard the term tankie. Are they something like radical communists (given that it was mentioned the main source of them is lemmygrad.ml)?
Yea, they’re authoritarian communists specifically, so people who support regimes and ideas such as the USSR, PRC, NK, etc.