It's not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
Welcome to MoG!
Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
(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.
Thank goodness piefed exists :)
There are some Growing Pains at the moment. But there were with Lemmy as well. I hope to see them better resolve soon enough. And I've been enjoying it plenty myself.
Still waiting for Boost to support it (which is planned), then I'm jumping ship.
Voyager started recently. And already does 90% of what's necessary. I really would like to see it add in the way piefed combines all comment sections from every cross posted instance of a link. That's the one big thing I'm missing at the moment. But it's also a fairly big change under the hood I'm sure
Been getting my meds in order so I have the wherewithal and organization to make the move myself. Had to move one comm early, and it seems pretty functional so far. Have to admit that I'm not thrilled about the color schemes available, but that's a small price to pay for the eventual avoidance of supporting tankie ghouls.
What? You don't think 1970 / 80 was the peak of UI design? That you can ever have enough imitation green phosphor on black? LOL yes it's pretty bare at the moment. But the project itself is new enough and its come along fast enough that I think we can forgive it for now. It's definitely promising how widely it's being picked up and deployed.
Switching over account data was really easy at least. I think Voyager has it and I know Interstellar does. I used Interstellar to migrate all my Subs Etc. I saw a piefed has a link to migrate whole communities. Though I haven't tried that yet. I'm assuming it does more than just creating similarly named communities. But I haven't looked into it.
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/37845158
Okay, replicating old posts, comments and even transferring some of the members?! That's, impressive.
Posts, not comments unfortunately at the time, I think that has changed since
The only reason I have yet to switch is because I can't find a "hide bot accounts" button, as I can't stand seeing bot posts/comments.
In "Block and Filters" you can block bots
All, or 1 at a time? Because I did not find an option to block them all, automatically when I checked.
I see a "Hide completely" option in "hide posts from bots"
I was about to thank you again on my piefed.ca account, but I could not find this comment chain (starting from pugjesus's comment), and after turning off bot/nsfl filters, I can't even see the post anymore on piefed.
You can try to retrieve the post remotely using the search (bottom button on the search page)
Good to know, I could not find that last I checked!
I hope we'll get more options in the future as well - I'm working on my own alternative at the moment :)
Don't know what Piefed is
If I'm not mistaken, it's a parallel project to Lemmy that's also based on ActivityPub for the fediverse. Think of it as a different terminal by different devs for the same communities.
https://join.piefed.social/
https://piefed.social/
So it's more than just a different instance?
Yes it offers unique user and moderator features on top of pretty much all the same features as Lemmy.
The choice of language they are using for it will be a hindrance and a help. Python is much more accessible for many programmers than rust. However it is not always as performant as rust. They may encounter bottlenecks with scaling and a few other things. Which can be alleviated by using a language that is specifically designed for those things. Then those code modules can be called by the rest of the python code no problem.
But as a much younger project piefed has already made massive strides and even stepped out ahead of lemmy. Lemmy had a 4 year head start. Combined with no clear moral qualms with the developers. It's clear why many are excited for piefed.