MeanwhileOnGrad

I will for-real never understand the connection between "I like communism and power for working people" and "I support China and Russia." The two statements simply have nothing at all to do with each other, they're not compatible. I've asked some of them to explain it to me, and the closest I've gotten to an answer has been more or less that they don't like the US, so they will support an enemy of the US, no matter how horrifying the enemy is or what crimes they are committing or whether they are communist or not.

Congratulations, guys, you invented CIA logic. It was one of the dominant forces making the 20th century worse, which is saying quite a lot, and now you're deep-throating it like you're training for an event.

Come join us!

I was checking out Reddit recently, and there are plenty of tankies there, they don't seem to be doing so badly, so I guess you have to be a tankiest tankie to get banned there.

In the Voyager app it's under Settings > Filters & Blocks > Blocked Instances.

Yes, in your settings. Some clients give you the option to block right from the home page with a drop down, iirc. This should be available in Lemmy-UI ~~but I guess Dessalines would never approve it for obvious reasons.~~

Jerboa:

yes. i blocked the triad of tankies and any extremist posts/and porn. you can go to settings>BLOCKS(YOU CAN block communities, people, instances)

if everyone "in the know" block them, then who will be left to downvote and show resistance to their "viewpoints"?

That’s the problem I have with communities with people of the same opinion, safe spaces, circlejerks

They will have a huge confirmation bias, be comforted in their beliefs and this might be harder and harder to revert, and might make people more extreme