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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!


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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

he's so fucking stupid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

What on earth did sh.itjust.works do?

I saw that Beehaw defederated from them, and it's just confusing to me. There's all kinds of weird nonsense coming from lemmy.world, that defederation makes complete sense to me, but... what did sh.itjust.works do? They seem fine.

What are the toxic communities? Did I just miss them so far? I really don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

SJW hosts two communities that probably generate 99% of the issues/hate our instance gets: NonCredibleDefense, which is basically just edge-y military shitposting, and this community which is entirely based around making fun of tankies.

In NCD some of the takes can be really hot, but I'm usually pretty sure it's a joke. Sometimes it can go too far, though.

This com is fine idk. Unless you're a tankie and you come here to read about yourself getting mocked, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Beehaw defederated from everyone and wanted to become their own thing. Didn't work out well for them. I joined beehaw initially and then got banned after I commented on a post asking how queer people feel about queer movements. I said pride today is largely just advertising and virtue signalling instead of actual activism, that I only ever had my sexuality questioned by queer folk as opposed to religious or straight folk. I got banned. Anyone commenting anything negative about their experiences also got booted.

SJW is more of a moralist community with some conservatism, at least from my experience. Back when it was popular, everything was driven by community input and voting.

I'd like to move this community to .world since it's larger, but there's no way to transfer communities and I don't think the Lemmy devs are quite willing to add any such feature

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that we had open registration and that led to a very small amount of spam posters. Apparently we were a moderation concern.

I’ve certainly downvoted people in this instance but I can’t remember the last time something particularly egregious occurred

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I never understood why people are so quick to defederation. The block button seems to work for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

But then you can't flex your might as an instance owner. Its always more fun to torce people to think as you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We do get a lot of greentexts. I mean, greentexts, NCD, and this place are the core communities filling my Local feed. Whitepeopletwitter has been pretty frequent but pretty low engagement recently though.

I typically opt for All to read .world and .ml debatelording.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I typically opt for All to read .world and .ml debatelording.

It is good fun. Thank you for adding debatelording to my lexicon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If you put md at the very beggining of a code block, it'll be formatted as a greentext on certain displays.

> be me
> posting greentext on lemmy
> teaching the trick to others
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

4chan being used as a derogative by Hexbear has made my day. I'll take anon any day of the week.