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  • Shrike502
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    1 year ago

    Looks like we can add “blahaj zone” instance to the likes of sopuli and beehaw. As in “gits, who come here and comment with lib takes”

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      1 year ago

      The admin of that instance has been friendly with lemmygrad users, but a lot of the new users on that instance are dronies.

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        1 year ago

        So does it look like the rest of Blajah zone is safe and just 196 went ultra-reactionary? The mod on there has gone super anti-“tankie” the last 3 days and I had originally had homes for that group, but it seems like all of it is going downhill… I hope that the admin keep us federated at least

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          I don’t know for certain, but I noticed most of the dronies throwing a fit were in 196. We never had problems with that instance before that.

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      1 year ago

      Unequivocally racist too.

      Perpetuating the totally not chauvinist sentiment of hurr durr china steals my intellectual property and doesn’t innovate and gets like 20+ upvotes.

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      1 year ago

      To be expected considering just how bad r/196 was getting. I think despite being what seemed 50% trans (part of the reason I as a transperson was on there) the community flocked to constantly defend vaush to the point I started realizing the community was universally starting to either have r/vaush overlap or r/tankjerk overlap very commonly.

      After all the “kick tankies out of r/196” did come up months back on r/196. The rapidly growing amount of Vaushites(muh anarcho-natoism) and fascists blatantly joining without protest started positioning the well so bad I started avoiding it. They’re going down the slippery sloop so fast I expect them to defederate by July, shame as it could of brought back what r/196 used to be before the brainrot.

      • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺M
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        they have said anyone from Lemmygrad is on their last chance already, no warning, no comment removal just a ban. I feel like it is overly harsh, but I also knew nothing about the reddit comunity it came from

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          Its reddit community used to be a more accepting leftist space with a lot of queer humor. But over time the Libs slowly got worse. I remember when I first joined it felt like it was run by actual leftists (mostly baby leftists and anarkiddies but still) The first “kick tankies of of r/196” wasn’t as well received as this one…

          So when Ukraine war broke out they got… So much worse. I have no hope for the instance tbh and am glad they banned me, if only for 3 days as apparently I’m only a borderline tankie lmao. We have our own 196 which is much better tbh.___