Fuck absolutely everyone who turns Lemmy into yet another Internet battlefield.

This is what the tankies do, would you rather have them just run roughshod all over Lemmy spreading hostile country authoritarian propaganda?

Leave .ml alone. Leave Hexbear alone. Even yes - leave Lemmygrad alone. People there will not change their opinion when facing hatred

Not about changing Tankie opinions, they're too far gone, this is about pushing back on the spread of authoritarian BS.

and newbies coming there doesn't change the big picture, as Lemmy is federated and they can figure stuff out for themselves.

"Don't tell the new comers to town about the Nazis at the Nazi bar, let them figure it out for themselves so they have a negative experience and leave"

Trying to silence entire instances, especially the biggest ones, is absolutely not a welcoming picture to whoever's coming here

If they're (admins and mods) going to allow a toxic culture on their instance, then it doesn't matter their size. Toxic Tankies is not a good look at all.

and being cut out and filtered for happening to choose the "wrong" instance is the worst possible greeting.

The worst possible greeting, is seeing Tankie shit takes with paragraphs of "Russia/China did nothing wrong" and everyone going "We let them post their stuff because we don't want to hurt their fefes"