For all your boycotting needs. I'm sure there's some mods caught in lemmy.ml's top 10 that are perfectly upstanding and reasonable people, my condolences for the cross-fire.

[email protected] and [email protected]. Or of course communities that rule.
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[email protected]. Quite small, plenty of more specific ones available. Also linux is inescapable on lemmy anyway :)
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[email protected] and maybe [email protected], lemmy.one itself seems to be up in the air. [email protected] says [email protected]. They really seem to be hiding even from another, those tinfoil hats :)
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Seems like [email protected] and [email protected], various smaller comic-specifc communities as well as [email protected]
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(Out of the loop? Here's a thread on lemmy.ml mods and their questionable behaviour)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

No, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and I do not fully disagree. But I think context matters. I like tanky because it helps people understand the dangers of the ideology more than other alternatives like communist or Marxist-Leninist or whatever. Is there more danger of violence against tankies or that their ideology may grow and cause violence against others? Right now I perceive the latter to be a bigger issue, and I don’t see any real risk of harm coming to them, at least in the social circles where my words have influence.

If there was a movement that sought to do physical harm to them (outside of a defensive context) then I would weigh that appropriately in my language. The term is a tool of persuasion and I deem that persuasion more important than any risk of dehumanization, which I do oppose and recognize as harmful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I can see your point. Sadly we have ample evidence that others have thought the same about such terms and they have a bad precedent.

So thanks for discussing this in good faith. I like the way we discussed this as it often isnt what happens with others.

Have a good one. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nice discussion