this tankie narrative seems overblown.

i've created an account the day the api changes was announced and i've never seen any political discussions around communism. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but i've seen far more complaining about tankies than tankies themselves

like reddit, if you avoid all and just subscribe to the communities you're interested in then there's no problem.

My friend self hosts an instance that we use. I'd recommend anyone with the ability to self host or join a smaller instance. Good luck friend!

again, this why i claim that lemmy is not the solution to the problem we are trying to solve.

So join one of the smaller instances rather than the big ones. The big ones have been around a while long before the Reddit exodus for a reason, and that reason is because the people that were kicked out of the likes of Reddit already (so there must have been pretty awful), and needed somewhere to go. Inevitably you're going to find that when you use those instances, you have to put up with these prats.

Come to Lemmy.ca, even if you're not Canadian. It's been very stable so far, and the admins are nice.

Come to lemmy.ca so far I am satisfied.

You can make an account on an instance and not subscribe to any of the local communities if you want.

Can someone explain what a tankie is, I keep hearing it and getting called one but have no fucking clue what they’re on about

Also, you could just make an account for the dark side of lemmy for defederated things and then use another for regular usage, no? I basically just switch between accounts through my reader app

We are all sorting down to our social placements. Perhaps you are infact a tankie! 🧐

You're not going to magically get away from people by switching instances. People from any instance can talk to others by default.

try https://discuit.net/Piracy brother

Just block the 'tankie' communities and/or subscribe to communities you're actually interested in instead of browsing c/all

Dbzero seemed good until they mentioned anarchism and anti-right-wing directives which means it's a leftist-first instance and that's a no-go even if I do support their cause.