MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate-speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
(caution of bias)
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 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.
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.
If you're violating instance rules, you'll typically be warned. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last seven days, but repeat infractions will have longer sentences. You may ask to be unbanned.
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Personally I come from Discord, not Reddit. So the wider array of people is new to me, not something I expect. I consider this a big step forward from hanging out on Discord servers. I chose my instance to be a comfy place to spend time. Read nice stuff, and make friends. I'm less interested in the practicality of unbroken federation providing a mix of information and opinions. I don't need that from my time on Lemmy. My two cents. Take care.
I can see that. Most normies (honestly, most people who aren't "normies" either) right now are going to be fixated on large communities and will measure websites based on the number of active users. Gone are the days of low population independent forums. Users now want large social media silos with millions of people where they can have a one stop online location with hundreds of people at any given time who can answer their questions. Smaller communities that focus too heavily on quality over quantity have their own problems and can easily scare away new users by declaring all their rules.
The general rule of social media sites is that people are on them because other people are on them. Lemmy is going to have a hard enough time attracting new users because it's not a "normie" site. (10 years ago it's hard to say if Reddit would have fit that label.) Social media platforms can snowball.
I feel like the more a social media platform splits itself up, the harder it will be to attract users. Users don't want to have to think about which instance they need to join in order to get access to the largest community.
Damn I better enjoy this while it lasts. Lemmy is so heavenly to me.