2 yr. ago • 83%

Beehaw defederates from lemmygrad

When did the lemmygrad defederation happen?

Chris Remington mod

A couple of days ago. alyaza

about aug 10, mostly motivated by their lack of moderation/lack of compatibility with our values but also because we’re trying to figure out why our server is using so much more space than it should be (because if we don’t figure it out soon our hosting costs will need to double). one of the presumptions is who we federate with has something to do with it and lemmygrad was the biggest place we federated with, but we don’t really have overlap with their userbase so it doesn’t make very much sense to assume any additional load they might be adding.

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Good. I went to the lemmygrad instance once and saw it was completely filled with tankies spouting Chinese and Russian propaganda. I guess it’s good they’ve isolated themselves, like with exploding-heads being an r/the_donald cesspool.

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- This is what I enjoy about Lemmy. Back on reddit you sometimes ~~stepped into shit~~ came across fucking nazis, here you sometimes run into tankies. It's kinda familiar yet different.
  
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  I absolutely love seeing Trump Nazis and Tankies both spouting Russian propaganda.
  
  It's a refreshing reminder that politics isn't a spectrum - it's a circle. If you go too far left or too far right, you loop right back around. Another way to view it - if you add hate and intolerance into your politics, you end up a piece of shit no matter which side you're on.
  
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  What’s a tankie?
  
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- Why did you necro this thread from a year ago?
  
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  Weird, it was in my hot feed, I didn’t even look at the date. Had no idea lemmy was even a year old!
  
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- Just because it’s contrary to American propaganda doesn’t make it Russian/Chinese propaganda.
  
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  The thing about tankies is that they idolise China and the USSR explicitly. That’s what earned the term tankies. They like to call their selves communists/leftists, but it’s a blatantly right wing authoritarian ideology.
  
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  Meh, I'm very anti-american propaganda and there definitely is propaganda there
  
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  The origin of the label ‘Tankies’ is from British communists supporting the USSR’s party line and specifically to defend the use of tanks to suppress dissent in the Hungarian revolution of 1956.
  
  It’s a self-applied label and it’s in fact very explicitly and by definition Pro-Russian propaganda and more recently Pro-Chinese as well.
  
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Why is a 11 months old post showing up on the feed?

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- I just had a 3 year old post appear in hot
  
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  I’ve also been seeing some 3 year old posts on my feed. Not sure why, but some of them are really cool so I can’t complain.
  
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