I’ve been noticing people on dot-world in the last year, particularly the mods, have really ramped up calling people tankies and making a big fuss about it. Back when I used my account there, Hexbear might as well have been Satan’s personal instance for how it was discussed. Since I moved here (and can actually see them), it really seems quite overblown.

There’s definitely shitty users all over, and maaaybe the more radical instances let people get away with more bad behavior, but certainly banning whole instances over shit like this is obvious mod abuse.

It’s not like they run background checks on mods, literally anyone could infiltrate the positions and use their powers to sow dischord. I just don’t trust this extreme “we must purge the far left, the anarchist, the communists, etc” turn in Lemmy moderation at all. Really stinks of old fashioned “First they came for the…” behaviors.