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.
Uh... nobody at all has been pretending the Lemmy devs aren't tankies. The whole point of this community is dunking on tankies, but let's keep content at a level above "tankie bad haha".
Uh… nobody at all has been pretending the Lemmy devs aren’t tankies.
A large number of MLs assert that they're only being called tankies because everyone else is a shitlib who can't handle anyone left of Pelosi.
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.
ELI5
Yeah. I hear the term tankie all the time and no one has given me a concise answer yet. Also devs are the people that make the product, you know, the developers. Not the people policing it's content.
I greatly enjoy the human creativity that went behind this meme. We need more high quality OC here.
it's a single swapped line of text from a popular movie... not exactly groundbreaking meme material, here
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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