I made the mistake of being an anarchist on ml and hexbear.
Waay, waaaaaay too many tankies getting insanely pissed off and swarm when you criticize (point out obvious facts, really) any non US/Western countries or allies along anarchist lines.
It rapidly devolves into idpol, rants and tirades that are barely related to the topic or comment, Fox News style ‘I’m just asking questions in good faith’ which are obviously not in good faith if you’re older than maybe 10.
I dare someone to go ml or grad or hex and attempt to have a serious and thorough conversation about the Sino-Vietnamese war. Or Uighurs. Or the Holodomor. Or whether the concept of self-determination applies to Ukraine, Taiwan, and Palestine at the same time.
I remember at one point explaining a meme that popped up on some China’s social media site that boiled down to ‘Deng Xiaoping’s reforms have led to Chinese women craving giant Black cocks’, and all of them being just fine with incels and racism when its not Westerners doing it.
Craziest part is when they horseshoe so hard that you have ‘communists’ arguing that LGBTQ are degenerate vermin. Although that is more rare, it does happen.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I have had way more issues with .ml communities that .world
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
ML was basically designed to be an echo chamber, it’s right there in the name.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
.world is the one that “preemptively defederated HB and grad, as a last resort” due to such scary views as opposing NATO and the IMF.
Thrashy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are sophisticated and nuanced critiques to be made of Western power projection, soft and hard. “Nuanced” and “sophisticated” are not words appropriate to the average hexbear or lemmygrad denizen’s take on geopolitics, and for those of us who live in the real world rather than living to argue over how many Maos can dance on the tip of the icepick that killed Trotsky, the loud and unrelenting naysaying of anything less extreme than “armed proletarian revolution now!” got to be incredibly tiresome.
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Go visit hexbear.net/PPB (nsfw) for a good reason why one might want to defederate from them.
OpenStars@discuss.online 1 month ago
Strawman arguments and other such logical fallacies as these are why I user blocked lemmy.ml. It’s too bad they still show up from Lemmy.ml accounts everywhere I look:-(.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Fuck off tankie
noisefree@lemmy.world 1 month ago
FTFY (though, I’m mostly being sarcastic here - like most things, moderation there is a mixed bag from community to community).
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Everyone has. That place is a toxic shithole.
Maeve@midwest.social 1 month ago
I haven’t.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
give it more than 14 days.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I mean… a toxic shithole? Really??
I think of it as more of a cancerous shithole.
Soup@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
A toxic, cancerous shithole of vapid piasfarts incessantly salivating on themselves while climbing over one another to be top edgelord in a community that fails to produce both edge, or lords.