Well its a sh.itjust.works account so basically anyone to the left of Margret Thatcher most likely.

People who love authoritarianism and intentionally skip over their atrocities, the term "tankie" refers to how the military (tanks) were used to crush the rebellions of many authoritarian regimes, notably, the Hungarian uprising in 1956 being crushed by the Warsaw Pact and the Tianamen square massacre in 1989 by the PRC.

It's usually used to refer to supporters of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, etc. who deny all the bad, inhuman things about those states.

Roughly speaking, authoritarian/big-state communist. Very common on a certain subset of Lemmy instances.

Someone who supports socialist state. You'll get a million other responses but the through line is that tankies support existing socialism.

It's a social construct and used similay by libs how "woke" is used by conservatives as a thought terminating cliche. I've seen it used for anyone left of Bernie sanders. Libs and chuds use it to create a straw man. In this case by claiming that "tankies" love dictators that crush people with a tank.. lol

in lemmy its usually an alt-left authotarian point of view, aka "communism" but they really represent the extreme opposite of the spectrum as well.

Someone who supports socialist state regardless of human rights violations. You'll get a million other responses but the through line is that tankies support existing socialism at the cost of human lives.

they're called tankies because they represent the tank in this picture.

There used to be one like that a few years back! From memory I think it was on the German feddit that doesn't exist anymore.

I've had fine interactions with one of the devs, anyway. Not so much individual users.

I unsubscribed from all their communities I'd formerly signed up to because of too many toxic interactions.

Just don't choose piefed.social. Rimu made a few quite questionable decisions to say the least.

Piefed uses a social credit system

oh that's right! I forgot about piefed. I would like to switch but this is my 3rd account switching instances and I'm not excited about starting all over again 🙁

ITT: Liberals whinging about ”tankies” participating on the free, open source social media platform that they themselves created.

liberal paradise

Isn't that just piefed?

So anything you don't agree with is liberalism? They didn't mention their views anywhere, this sounds a lot like projection. Figures for a .ml user I suppose.

My mutual is very anti authoritarian, that's why they got a warning on Reddit. I imagine they aren't welcome on your instance 😂

FYI .ml is federated with almost every single instance. You're just making shit up to get mad about.

Like I said

Or something that goes a bit deeper onto each instance and explains them better?

does lemmy.ml federate hexbear?

lol.