this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2023
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I do wish there was an old reddit option but tbh most pf the ui is pretty old reddit-esque.
Also I fell for the tankie bs pretty fast then realized that's a bullshit reason to not join and I am trying my best to spread the word for Lemmy. Especially since tankie has become yet another buzzword who knows what it really means these days. I took it to mean pro-hong kong censorship, because that's all I see.
Yeah, some instances lean a bit harder into that than others so there’s nothing really stopping people from creating their own instance and blocking some of those they deemed “troublesome” but nothing I’ve seen has really scared me anymore than some of the batshit crazy stuff I was seeing regularly on Reddit and other parts of the web lol.
Actually just saw a post on mastodon that was telling people to avoid lemmy because of the tankie shit lol.🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, like, if I'm supposed to avoid this place because of tankies in places, why am I not supposed to avoid reddit because of fascists and racists and sexists and transphobes and. waves at reddit in general
It seems like the same thing as the people who poo-poo tumblr for being all dRaMa and furries or something, ignoring that it's essentially a giant jumble of blogs you pick and choose from, and that tumblr posts are constantly reposted to reddit but not vice-versa.
Anyway. My personal experience (admittedly limited) with tankies has been that they're wildly wrong about a lot of shit, often disturbingly so, but also they tend to think trans people are human, so they're already a mile more preferable to be around than the right to me. Tankies, to me, seem more like they've fallen for disinformation and "socialist" dictatorship PR campaigns and less like they're purely full of hate for everybody not exactly like them. But I'm basing this mostly on the tiny handful of people I know personally so I could be mistaken overall. In any case, so far Lemmy seems fine in this respect (I just got here tho lol).
Yeah, also I haven't personally ran into any posts that were awful during my two days here. Whatever issues they have with Lemmy being ""tankie"" (whatever that means to whoever says it) is really overblown. It's kinda like the stigma Reddit has for having rightious aethiests, where I never have come across that during all my years using it.
it's because of the large number of people migrating from reddit, before that a ton of the posts you would run into (I would say at least half) were posted by lemmygrad users
R/atheism used to be an r/all sub, and I guess some people remembered that forever.
R/atheism wasn't even all bad, imo. It went over the top a lot, sometimes got ugly, but also it was cathartic and relieving for people who were trapped in super religious situations. I think it got as vehement as it did because it was often spurred on by an understandable need to vent when they couldn't in their real lives. But also it did get ugly sometimes. Shouldn't have been on r/all, like most things that end up on r/all, really.
If anything the tankie mud slinging has had the opposite effect on me. The Lemmy devs seem pretty damn gracious and accepting of people that probably have more moderate political beliefs than themselves.