Just blocked lemmy.ml from my Lemmy account, and I swear to god it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done on this platform. My homepage feels actually clean now.

For the past few months I’d been seeing a lot of tankie posting and pretty much far-left propaganda on my feed. It got tiring enough that I finally checked my blocked-user list, and realized pretty much everyone I’d blocked was from lemmy.ml. So I just blocked the whole instance instead.

Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist: I used to think Lemmy itself was an echo chamber. Turns out lemmy.ml was the problem the entire time. Probably the reason I tolerated it for so long is that I agreed with a lot of what they posted, but like an oversaturated meme, I’d had enough. Browsing the platform was starting to feel way too tiring instead of fun, which defeats the point of being here in the first place.

The breaking point was seeing some dude post a “meme” implying North Korea and China are basically communist utopias and that the West sucks. I mean, the West does suck, but come on - you’re saying North Korea is the ideal the West should strive for? What the hell…

  • TheLegendaryAssholeOfJushinLiger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    4 hours ago

    I see why people block y’all. No. No one calls anarchists tankies. Confabulate as much as you want. It means what it means, and has meant since its inception. People like you, probably. And you fucking know it.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      32 minutes ago

      Anarchists that support existing socialist states get called tankie all the time. “Tankie” isn’t an ideology or a species of human, it’s a pejorative for a loose grouping of those that like, say, China and Cuba.

    • Toga77@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Lol like everyone in here complaining and blocking, when you were presented with facts, your true colors came out.

      Softer than baby shit.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      4 hours ago

      I see why people block y’all. No.

      Oh no! Someone disagrees with you! Better reach for that block button! That’ll show them.

      No one calls anarchists tankies

      Yes they do. All the time. Ask me how I know.

      Confabulate as much as you want.

      Go back to reddit

      It means what it means, and has meant since its inception.

      You don’t seriously believe that the word tankie, in this day and age, is only used to refer to people who support Khrushchev sending tanks into Hungry half a century ago. So you’re just undeniably being willfully dishonest now. And for what? What is the point about lying about this?

      People like you, probably. And you fucking know it.

      I was not born for several decades when the Hungarian revolt occurred and have no real opinion on it, so no, I don’t “fucking know it”, I know you’re fucking wrong, and are trying to cover that up with impotent aggression.