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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit (www.theguardian.com)
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‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit::A mass user protest six months ago over technical tweaks had big downstream effects, and now the ‘front page of the internet’ is changed for ever

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

I'd say a left-wing activist type

Which is cringe inducing in looking for certain types of left-wingers. There are more tankies here than in other Internet forums I have seen. I'd be rich for penny I get for meeting tankies in Lemmy. They call out American imperialism, but then simp for Russia and China. Two wrongs don't make a right and they expect to have one but not the other. Though, I wouldn't be surprised if Russian bots have also infiltrated Lemmy to sow disinformation.

whose into tech

Doesn't sound different from the early days of Reddit.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I see way more comments complaining about tankies on a regular basis than actual tankies

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Americans are pretty right leaning. So anything leftish is unfamiliar. I think tankie has become an all encompassing term for anything left of "normal", or unfamiliar.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Ehh once you see it you can spot the Tankie arguments pretty fast. Usually it starts as some sort of nitpick or factual correction regarding Russia, China, or another country in their sphere of influence, then some overarching opinion that sounds okay on the surface but the moment you put more than a few seconds of thought in you realize its wrong, sprinkle in some vague and slightly conspiratorial-sounding references to not falling for propaganda, then usually it devolves into pointing out something bad the US has done as a false equivalency while conveniently avoiding the finer points on why it's a false equivalency. Oh and they never mention the Nazis because their arguments so frequently are perfect arguments to also defend the Nazis, but they at least know it's a bad look to align with Nazis.

    Personally I will call out racism/apologism/transphobia with a 2 reply limit then block, because I do not want that to be normalized, but also people posting such comments tend to be trolls who enjoy arguing in bad faith. I did also block the entire hexbear instance on my account (it's an option the settings now!) because that's not just random redfacists but an echo chamber for redfacists to continuously reinforce their beliefs.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I agree. The apologia for Russia, China and just communism in general (or what ever you want to call it) fucks with your mind a bit. If Lemmy is the only social media you use it quickly starts to seem like this kind of thinking is far more common than what it really is and it can make one question their own sanity when reasonable sounding critizism of this is met with huge flood of downvotes. Especially if the discussion is happening on a place like lemmy.ml. As an outside observer I find it interesting as I haven't really met people like this before but trying to engage with them is one of the most frustrating things I've experienced especially since a mod is going to ban you mid-discussion for "misinformation and bigotry" or something similar while it's clear to everyone it's just CCP level cencorship to silence all dissidence.

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