MeanwhileOnGrad
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
(caution of biased source)
Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
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Sorry I misunderstood your question.
Think of instances as servers. Unlike Reddit, which is - as far as you're concerned anyway - one server and one company running that server, Lemmy is a collection of small and not-so-small servers run by individual people to organizations, that synchronize one another's contents.
But some servers are run by people with certain convictions, or certain moral codes, or certain rules, and they refuse to synchronize with certain other servers. For example, many servers that carry outrageous porn aren't synchronized by other servers, so the local users of those servers aren't subjected to the non-synchronized content.
Those servers that aren't synchronized by other servers are said to be defederated by those other servers.
The ultra-weirdo Stalinist instances are defederated by a lot of other, more reasonable instances for a variety of reasons. For instance, Sopuli - which is run by a Finn - doesn't federate Lemmygrad and Hexbear because the Stalinist shit really isn't up the Finns' alley for obvious historical reasons.
So which instance should i host my profile on if i don't want anyone else to decide which instances are blocked for me?
You're already on lemm.ee which is the second largest instance on the fediverse and generally tries as much as possible not to defederate from anyone, even these tankie instances
SDF - the one I'm on - is one of the few that won't defederate any other instance on the ground that you can choose what to block yourself. That's why I chose it. The flipside of SDF is that it's regularly dog slow, and goes down more often that I would like. But I have other accounts on other instances when that happens. But those instances won't show everything SDF shows.
...or you can host your own!
I am not really interested in becoming an IT guy.
I just wanted to get away from reddit, but i am starting to think Lemmy is both a little too complicated, and lacks the amount of users that made reddit interesting.
In general, you don't need to worry about instances, provided you're part of a decent one. You are, so you're good. Stop worrying about it and enjoy the content.
Ha, yeah it's not for everyone.