What makes me sad is that because these are junk they will disappear from the roads quick and thus I will soon lose the superpower to identify idiots from 1000 yards out.

This was the real product of the cybertruck and it is a gift we failed to appreciate fully.

Elon Musk is a fascist

You make it obvious how paper thin your stereotypes and attitudes are!

Because you are obsessed with tankies to an unhealthy degree, we all deserve clarity on what a tankie is and why I am being accused of being one for finding y’all annoying.

So what is it? What makes me a tankie? Put your money where your mouth is.

A close reading of my comments will show that my claim is that you basically simp for tankies, not that you are a tankie. But it’s clear why a lot of people believe you are a tankie.

Stop avoiding the question.

ONLY because of …Russia…

Only?

No Geoffrey Hinton we would have been better off without scifi that obsessed about AI to the point that people have forgotten about Climate Change and Nuclear War as real threats.

I don’t understand why russia thinks it is a good idea to fuck with poland, they are no pushover not by a longshot.

There’s a difference between words and proof.

Yes and you are going to use a circlejerk instance as your proof?

Do y’all understand how weird you come off?

Centrists here (lots on piefed, some of the main developers for a piefed app hardcoded leftist instance blocks without telling anyone until they got caught, that is their vibe a “hallucinated” center) lose their mind about leftists even when the world outside is drowning in radical rightwing fascist movements openly advocating for violence, racism and fascism. Also did any of them warn you that there are rightwing VERY VERY toxic parts of the fediverse that mainly don’t connect to the bigger communities because they are simply too violent and toxic to federate with normal people?

sigh

You will run into stupid leftists here, maybe that will be a new experience for you if haven’t because they were excluded from all the other places you have been but shrugs the idea that this is some problem that needs to be shoved in the face of new users in their welcome in post is kind of pathetic and says more about these “centrists” than it does about .ml at this point. Even if it is a new experience so what, there are plenty more intelligent leftists with nuanced views, this vision of tankies is a caricature on purpose in a frankly alarmingly cynical way especially given the state of the world and who has power.

Ok in terms of technical terms an instance is a particular website running a particular fediverse software i.e. lemmy.ca, thelemmy.club, piefed.social.

A community is the name for a “subreddit” of which any given instance hosts many (and different instances can have communities about the same thing, which happens with bigger topics sometimes).

The names… aren’t ideal but also you don’t need to remember any of this really.

Explain to me what makes me a tankie other than the fact that I find it annoying how piefed people are obsessed with tankies?

I will not smack ANYONE in the face with a fish, rather I demand you must cut down the mightiest tree in the forest—with a herring!

Or maybe you all are actually the secret tankies because you spend so much time screaming about how bad the tankies are?

Why would you care so much if you weren’t trying to bury your denial about secretly being a tankie???

Now that I think about it, almost every time it is brought up un conversation it is by people like you…

Do you see how arbitrary your line of argument is? You can trivially spin it around, point it anything and say AHA! Gotcha!!

Look through my post history, I do not fit into this cartoonish box of “tankie”, not even remotely.

One key difference is that there can be multiple communities for any given topic, so you can join them all, or pick just one, or even make your own if.you dislike how the others are being run.

Sometimes people get really hung up on this being confusing or being a problem, but there are already and will be more tools in the future to group similar communities together into feeds and it doesn’t feel “fractured” to me at all as it is anyways.

If anything I think reddit normalizing the concept that there is pretty much one main community for every topic has made people get used to something far less intuitive.

I think of communities about the same topics on different communities as like whales in a pod, they are independent, sometimes opposed, sometimes indifferent, sometimes alligned but no matter what you can see posts, ideas and conversations surface at similar points in time through each of them and thus there is a very indirect sort of coherency even when there are stark divisions in the community structures and beliefs.

To put it another way if something someone shared on any one particular community is truly important or worth interacting with the rest of the “pod” of similar communities will surface the same thing eventually even if it isn’t from being literally crossposted from one community to the other.

A specific example of this are the communities themed around collapse on the fediverse. They don’t all have the same articles/posts but the really important ones about the climate or whatever tend to make it to all the communities directly or indirectly once they have been shared in one of them.

Another much more light hearted example is how the actually meaningful gaming news and ideas will propagate around the various different gaming communities on the fediverse. The duplication creates a new level of meaning in a way.

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!

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

Hypothetically, if you weren’t a Tankie, then why defend them with such passion?

This is a clear logical fallacy.

https://thinkingispower.com/logical-fallacies/#h-false-equivalence

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Alleged-Certainty