What is laughable is these lazy attempts to box me into the category of "tankie".

Again you expose your lack of curiousity about the people you lump into categories, if you look at my post history you will see I have posted LITERALLY HUNDREDS of articles about how much the GOP and Trump suck.

Put a little more effort into your stereotyping please.

Btw, Tankies are a problem for adoption, on numerous occasions I have personally witnessed and others have witnessed as well that when the topic of Lemmy came up on MSSM such as Reddit the question of “Lemmy? Isn’t that just a place full of Tankies” always seems to come up.

So your anecdotes justify pre-emptively trying to exclude an entire category of people you lump in your head as "tankies"? How am I supposed to evaluate the entire fediverse based upon your personal feelings about the anecdotes you have had that involved the fediverse?

There has been research on almost the very thing you are talking about, and it clearly shows how the way people talk about the fediverse on reddit is extremely warped even before you bring in the deluge of bots faking human interaction. If you think that level of misinformation/disinformatiom is helped by fearmongering about tankies as soon as someone steps in the door you are a fool.

A new Mastodon user usually does not know which other servers their instance has cut ties with. A new Bluesky user often does not know which labelers their app trusts by default, or that a stranger curating a list can add their account and quietly lower their reach. When something visibly breaks (an account goes dark, replies fail to land), people often take the question to Reddit. The answers that come back vary, from accurate to confidently wrong.

Our study reads those public Reddit conversations as folk theories of federated moderation. We use “folk theories” in the same way the literature has used it since Eslami et al. [7]: everyday accounts users build from observation and shared discussion, rather than from inside knowledge of how a system works.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3785651.3831493

Cool cool, see all you do is click on my profile and look at the posts I have made.

I have posted recently about Latvia getting a counterbattery radar, Greece obtaining the KC-390 cargo aircraft, Germany acquiring CH-47s, Poland moving towards producing Bohdana artillery, I have posted a research paper about how precisely russia is jamming satellites and what the spatial distribution of interference looks like over Europe, I have posted articles about how Trump betrays Ukraine for russia, I have posted many articles abut the components of russian flying bombs and the international companies that supplied the parts, I have posted about how the UK used a MQ-9B drone to shadow a russian ship for 10 hours for the first time as it passed through the English Channel.

Do you want me to go on?

You are projecting your imagination all over the place and you don't even realize how absurdly it deviates from reality.