MeanwhileOnGrad

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Meanwhile On Grad

Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!

What is a Tankie?

Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.

(caution of biased source)

Basic Rules:

Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.

Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.

Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.

Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.

Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.

You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.

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You don't even have to be on a grad/ml/hexbear instance (imgur.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by peregrin5@lemm.ee to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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They will find you and swarm if their "liberal senses" tingle from anywhere.

Found on a lemmy.zip post. These posts all happened within an hour of each other so there is definitely some coordination happening if not outright botting.

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[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

The only ways I know of:

move to a PieFed instance - which is amazing and worth doing anyway, just check it out and you'll see why:-)
the Lemmy apps Sync and Connect, which you are asking about so it should work for you? I haven't tried Sync directly through so I'm not sure exactly how to make it happen, only that people said that it should work
after the above, it gets a LOT more difficult from here, like writing a custom Ublock Origin filter rule or some such
start up your own whole entire instance and defederate from all three, then suffer whatever problems have caused all of the top major instances to not do that for Lemmy.ml

Lemmy does not make it easy, and worse: the "instance filter" doesn't do anything close to what it sounds like, it only functions as a "community muting". Maybe Sync can do multiple things along these lines - look for a way to "block all users from an instance", maybe start with a user from it and click around for an option with that language.

Good luck - it's definitely possible (I've done it myself - PieFed makes it trivially easy, though there aren't as many app options for it, just Interstellar in alpha stage, though Thunder support is being tested right now, but currently very limited to a normal user, i.e. it's a custom fork of the code not yet merged back into main).