It’s better to warn them and then encounter a tankie rather than have them encounter one without any context, they very well could and have walked away from the Fediverse because of it and then they go off to wherever and when someone asks about Lemmy/Threadiverse they incredibly likely to be the ones saying “That place is a a tankie hell hole”

That is a nice little bedtime nightmare story you have there.

Congratulations you have a scary narrative and you have anecdotes to support it!