cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25133597

Come one come all to the Lemmy-verse! It’s nice and cozy here, we do have some “bad parts of town” but you can do an instance block and not deal with them lol

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz and !biology@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo theres always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

There’s much more around as well!

Obligatory, fuck Spez

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      14 hours ago

      Lemmy.ml is the original instance and the dev instance. I joined it because there was literally no alternative at the time. It’s pretty annoying being called a tankie left and right because of this

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        7 hours ago

        Yeah, that’s pretty unfair. You shouldn’t have to put up with this; and it definitely is not your fault, or the fault of the instance. This “tankie instance” thing is bullshit.

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          9 hours ago

          Communist is not the same as tankie. Lemmy probably wouldn’t exist if the devs weren’t communist

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            7 hours ago

            I mean, they’re only not the same because “tankie” is so broadly defined that it also includes anarchists and non-western liberals.

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                I have to ask, are shitlibs aware that Wikipedia isn’t divine gospel, and that there are other works in the history of humanity? Because it seems to inevitably be their one and only go to, which is particularly embarrassing given that even a middle school teacher could tell you that it’s not a good source. Even worse, it doesn’t’ even back up your claim!

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                    Wikipedia is a fairly neutral source.

                    I mean, it’s basically your bible, your one and only source for everything. Of course you think it’s neutral. It’s not, by the way, but you think it is.

                    Middle school teachers will tell you that tertiary sources are a good way to start your research when you apparently have no idea what you’re talking about.

                    That makes sense then, as it’s obvious that neoliberals who only cite Wikipedia have no idea what they’re talking about.

                    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tankie

                    Oh wow, really digging deep for sources now.

                    Though even these sources basically confirm that it’s a vaguely defended snarl word that can be leveled at anyone to the left of Bernie Sanders.

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              2 hours ago

              No they don’t, reasonable criticism of the CPC is fine, they just ban jinogistic “China bad! Tinyman square! Winnie the pooh!” nonsense.

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      14 hours ago

      everyone keeps telling me my instance is full of tankies but im not seeing it. when i made my account this was the only instance.

      also, why the fuck would we want more redditors here?

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        I think there’s an instance on .ml that has everyone in a tizzy. I myself haven’t had any issue with .ml specifically. Lot of ‘mens rights’ bigots from .ee though, not sure why that is.

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          “An instance on .ml” you mean a community? Or you mean another domain name using the .ml top level domain? If it’s the latter, you probably mean lemmygrad.ml. If it’s the former, there are already quite a few communities on there which have a lot of subscribers and often appear in the “all” feed. Normally those are fine. But every now and then you’ll see some tankie comment and like 99% of the time it’s some user from that instance.

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            To be honest, I don’t pay a lot of attention other than to notice the ‘.ml’ and the vast majority of the time, I don’t notice any specific tanki-ness to people from there.

            .ee on the other hand has been… (checks) yeah, all but one of my blocks in the last month.

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        Same as a fellow code enthusiast, the dev instance seemed like a good choice. But no, do not pass go, straight to tankie jail apparently.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s pretty insane that choosing the default instance is seen as being indicative of your politics

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      12 hours ago

      Looks at the Lemmy devs

      They deny genocide and are transphobic

      .me laughs