The thing they said is prob racist af and against a group of ppl not the person doing the act, yet they lack the critical thinking skills to distinguish that from what they think they're doing

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Yeah, they are not really making a good point with that one

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It's not the average one we're hunting

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One point that is fair is that Lemmy has a high number of tankie scum.

And their accounts are not always hosted on lemmygrad/hexbear/ML.

This is a legitimate issue.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you have any examples of tankie discourse outside of grad/hexbear/ml communities?

[–] Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Mostly in political/news subs. If you avoid politics/news it's much less noticeable.

It tends to be relatively subtle (albeit after seeing it several times you do notice a pattern). Statements implying Chinese interactions with foreign countries are purely "for a better world". Low key, roundabout methods of supporting russian imperialism ("well it's actually NATO that's at fault"). That sort of thing.

FWIW, when/if the threadiverse gets more users (say at least 250K+ MAUs stable), this sort of stuff will be diluted to be less noticeable.

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

The issue is worse on Reddit. You can block people here. It’s fast and it works.