Got my first warning from upvoting Luigi.
I will keep upvoting him :)
I got banned for posting an animated gif of Luigi.
Ok. I'm new here. What's a tankie
Edit: tysm everyone for the answers
Derogatory term accusing someone of being a communist/Marxist.
People who are obsessed with tanks
Panzer IV my beloved
Ah that's me
People that Stan authoritarian countries. The term comes from when the USSR crushed liberation movements with tanks in the Republics and many western communists approved of the crushing. People who love China, Russia, Assad’s Syria, etc are tankies.
Makes sense. Tyvm
these days it's just Blue Team's version of "woke"
Yeah, suck it blue! I mean red! I mean blue! Ugh!
It’s actually old hat. Users on r/cth (where hexbear came from) were catching admin bans for upvoting the “wrong” posts years ago.
What was wrong about them?
they often approve of the racial genocides, hunting down of the lgbt and other morally reprehensible stuff this authoritarian regimes did.
Tankies are economically leftwing but their social views can be...questionable
I do not believe without a source that Reddit admins were banning chapos for upvoting positive-spin genocide. Not that I doubt it happened, but if they were doing that there wouldn't have been anyone left in the conservative subs (except for reasons, of course)
I can believe chapo was one of the subs that would ban you for doing it or commenting in the wrong sub like AgainstHateSubs would but that's a different claim than what you're making.
That all said, it's probably pretty hard to find a source for decade old Reddit drama at this point, but if you've got one let it rip.
It's bullshit, as I always say, "if someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying." This didn't happen on the fediverse but that rule also applies to r/cth. Like the way a lot of people found it was by crybullies making shit up and complaining about it and then people would check it out and see that it wasn't at all like what they claimed.
Reddit never gave any actual reason for banning r/cth, the mods tried to communicate and offered to work with them and never got a response. Even at the time, there was no way to prove what content was responsible so the narrative the community went with was "advocating violence against slaveowners."
The closest you get to what they're saying is that there were somewhat problematic jokes about "white genocide" and "forced bimbofication," mocking the right for taking such things seriously. The site wasn't really all that tankie, really, it aimed to be a big tent leftist shitposting community and most people were just into Bernie, while also having a sense of humor and not putting up with crybullies (the main reason Redditors hated it).
I left Reddit because they killed 3rd party apps. Since that day, they've only gone on to butcher the platform even further.
Joining Lemmy was a damn good decision.
Enshitification drives stock prices. Only the rich care about stock prices and they have no interest in using the platform. The platform dies off a death of a thousand cuts… story as old as time
I still don't understand it, how does making a product worse drive stock prices?
It means they can make people see more ads.
I think it's more stock prices / shareholders drive enshittification
Sure but why would they drive it unless it drove stock prices.
I hate the uprising of the word tankie like the rise of the word woke. Just more language to make walls between people.
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday.
“This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In comments on the post, a user expressed concern that the new policy could make people “paranoid about voting,” but the employee says that “this would be an unacceptable side effect, which is why we want to monitor this closely and ramp it up thoughtfully.”
If it violates policies, remove it and move on. This is weird.
“We have done this in the past for quarantined communities and found that it did help to reduce exposure to bad content, so we are experimenting with this sitewide,” according to the main post. Reddit “may consider” expanding the warnings in the future to cover repeated upvotes of other kinds of actions as well as taking other types of actions in addition to warnings.
Now that there is Thoughtcrime territory.
“Hey investors look away from the huge pile of porn we’re hosting and look at these cool content filters we’re adding”.
Memes about the Fediverse
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