The shear amount of tankiness over on lemmy.ml is making me seriously consider leaving the platform.

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    Only Reddit neoliberal crybabies whine about “tankies”. From what I can see it’s mostly baseless accusations/smear campaign because as I said, they are crybabies who cannot deal with the real world. It’s an open source project. His views are not relevant to the discussion and not particularly that uncommon outside of isolated Westerner bubbles. Spez the Reddit CEO was the moderator of a paedophile subreddit (jailbait) but nobody is up in arms about that or concerned about going back if the API changes are rolled back. Those people are as lost as old people who love FoxNews, Facebook or any other commercially charged propaganda vehicle.

    These leftists you hate so much have done something good. They’ve seized the means of communication for you. It’s open source and decentralised, it’s up to you (the community) what to do with it. If you are hardstuck on this then I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but the dev ain’t one.

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      It’s not such a bad combination to be a tankie and an open source software developer.

      It’s a problem to be a tankie and an admin/mod for the flagship instance.

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        It’s only a problem if you allow your personal worldview to affect your moderation… a tendency that sadly most moderators have. I’ve found lemmy.ml to be one of the more permissive instances where viewpoints of all sides are permitted. Unfortunately many others (you know who you are) are in danger of becoming walled gardens and echo chambers.

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          There’s a large overlap between people who are sympathetic to terrible dictators and people who would be happy to be dictators