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How does (or should) one respond to “Lemmy = tankies” (lib.lgbt)
submitted 1 year ago by Veraticus@lib.lgbt to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I shared my fly.io Lemmy project to Hacker News and one of the first responses was “Lemmy is for tankies.”

This isn’t the first time I’d heard this either. In leaving Reddit and researching alternatives I’d heard it a fair amount.

I think it’s basically untrue; beehaw doesn’t even federate with the big tankie servers. But that seems to require some understanding of what Lemmy actually is.

So… what’s the best way to talk about it and/or get around this optics issue?

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[–] hallettj@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The definition on Wikipedia seems relevant. I don't have much context on this; but it looks to me like the summary in this case could be: people who defend or are apologists for authoritarianism and violence, especially in China, Syria, or North Korea. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie