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Plenty of us tried that. We weren't the ones that turned it into a political Battlefield. I didn't start out blocking their communities and servers. I'm a pragmatist. Actually largely against people who are blindly ideological regardless of the ideology. Even if I tend to personally identify with the anarchist Spectrum.

Hell lemmygrad and hexbear weren't banned because of their politics. They were banned because of their behavior. Anyone who behaved like so many of them did should have been banned regardless of politics. Lemmy.world was de-federated by certain servers for far far less.

And if you want to exist in a bubble. Then by all means please do. But don't admonish other people for not doing so. Ignoring politics and being ignorant of politics is in large part how so many of the problems we have today were created. People left alone at the levers of power who should never have had any business. All because people were content and ignorant.

So if there was a instance called "obviously a bunch of Nazis" and we're all openly Nazis. You would be fine with that? Or am I missing the point?

I have no problems with tankies expressing there opinions. The problem is when someone points out they are wrong they get mad and if the mods are tankie they ban you. If not they just get mad and start name calling.

In a nutshell I think they should be allowed as long as they follow the rules. Same for everyone else.

I made the mistake of not knowing I was on an .ml community and disagreed with a post using, y'know, facts, and was downvoted to shit because my reply didn't jive with the room's echo chamber. I don't know what you mean by "leave(ing) them alone" when their brand of hate and bullshittery bleeds into the "All" feed. We're supposed to welcome that? Paradox of tolerance and all that. If someone joins one of those instances I kinda find it hard to believe that they wouldn't check out and stick with what they're attracted to in the first place.

Fuck absolutely everyone who turns Lemmy into yet another Internet battlefield.

This is what the tankies do, would you rather have them just run roughshod all over Lemmy spreading hostile country authoritarian propaganda?

Leave .ml alone. Leave Hexbear alone. Even yes - leave Lemmygrad alone. People there will not change their opinion when facing hatred

Not about changing Tankie opinions, they're too far gone, this is about pushing back on the spread of authoritarian BS.

and newbies coming there doesn't change the big picture, as Lemmy is federated and they can figure stuff out for themselves.

"Don't tell the new comers to town about the Nazis at the Nazi bar, let them figure it out for themselves so they have a negative experience and leave"

Trying to silence entire instances, especially the biggest ones, is absolutely not a welcoming picture to whoever's coming here

If they're (admins and mods) going to allow a toxic culture on their instance, then it doesn't matter their size. Toxic Tankies is not a good look at all.

and being cut out and filtered for happening to choose the "wrong" instance is the worst possible greeting.

The worst possible greeting, is seeing Tankie shit takes with paragraphs of "Russia/China did nothing wrong" and everyone going "We let them post their stuff because we don't want to hurt their fefes"

My instance has communities dedicated to this shit.

Some of your more vocal voices in this crusade against .ml tend to be pretty active in drone kill footage communities.

Having someone who actively supports Israeli operations in Gaza browbeat others about comments on Uyghurs is just a context to get used to.

It gets pretty easy to ignore once you see a full cycle of it.