Guess I'm on the right track 😌

Anywhere on Lemmy

Man, I'm bored, guess I'll fuck with tankies.

clears throat

Ukraine didn't start the war.

Yesterday was tianmen square day, what do you think about Tianmen square?
(Yughurs are also a nice litmus test)
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and any attempts at free speech are punished
let the downvotes pour!
China is a dictatorship.
- Vodka is a Ukrainian spirit
I have been banned from .ml twice for stating that Russia shot down a civilian aircraft over Ukraine.
@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @yogthos@lemmy.ml china is an authoritarian dictatorship, a surveillance state with no private life whatsoever. china is not communist, and attempts at free speech is punished
let the downvotes pour!
Kinda curious where these 'tankies' are from and their line of thoughts
Which works better? Russophobia or sinophobia? Do you just got full USA nationalist/imperialist or what? It looks like most people here are more into the sinophobia.
Those tankies gonna be so mad! lmao!!! \s
- oh so you just hate Russians and Chinese, eh!?
  Nope, the US is a police state that funds genocide. You're either against all of the tyranny or none of it, and none of the three are getting any excuse from me.
  Fuck Russia, China, Israel and America, and if anyone else wants to flash some fasc, fuck them too.

FR Fuck Tankies lol

I even get downvotes on stuff like "racism is bad".

No you don't lmao. Stop lying.
- Yea no, he's not. Anybody who starts becoming a thorn in the side of Lemmy tankies starts having perfectly innocuous posts and comments getting downvoted
  You're literally on a post about Tankies making three whole instances full of fake users to mass downvote me because I speak out and collect evidence against them
  And there are so many others before me with similar stories.
- I'd say about 70% of my comments have exactly 1 or 2 downvotes. Just the other day I said "lmao, nice" on a post about the IRS open-sourcing tax software and it got a downvote.

mass downvotes mean so little on a site where posts get at most 13 comments

And deleted in a couple days.

I just checked your post history, it's crazy how your posts are getting mass downvoted. Keep up the good work my man!

I mean, this person is on a personal quest to get everyone to block .ml , I can understand why they might be a bit agitated. Tankies aren't known for their patience and open mindedness.
It's very easy when they hate you and have a bunch of alts. Hexbear fell to a new low i didn't think was possible. Every time i interact with a haxbear instance, the up/down things seem so fucky. See my comments on meta@ee. i'm willing to bet my left nut on the fact that they are manipulating votes in some way.

ITT severe kamalacaust/lib cope.

Is there any actual evidence of downvotes?

yes
So, you're going to just declare the admins of multiple instances just lying about things then?
https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/30716282 https://lemvotes.org/post/lemmy.world/post/30716282
https://red.computersforpeace.net/
\ https://jenny.nya.pub/
\ https://fun.with.kyun.li/
All came online within the day it happened and all are now offline now that they've been widely defederated from and useless. With notable mentions to downvote troll accounts @FourGreenFields@feddit.org and @TheDregg@lemmy.world who were also banned

lol

furthermore: lmao

It will never not be funny to me that some people are so chronically online they think everyone else gives as much of a fuck about made up internet points as they do, and more, will go to such an extraordinary effort on a site which doesn't have cumulative karma like reddit did. which they are either too stupid to realize or too angry to care. these guys not only need to touch grass, they need to go disappear into the woods and become one with nature for a few weeks.

lastly, ow, fuck, my sides!

Upvotes and downvotes are made up internet points that decide sorting in the feeds.
It might not mean much if your opinion is popular or unpopular but when some individual loser wants to make you unseen that feels like a problem.
- oh yeah, I'll bet OP feels very unseen right now, with their nearly 500 net upvotes and ~70 comments on this post.
  Point being, said loser has failed miserably to do anything other than make themselves look more like a loser.

Well all of them shut down yesterday AND one of them, started a new instance in its place. already defederated, but curious...

I mean... Who fucking cares?

The people who are too stupid or incompetent to fact check basic things.
Those without critical thinking skills
It kind of affects all of us if people (barely) are manipulating the feeds in broad daylight.

They should know better, you obviously have a good keyboard and lots of free time. I wouldn't mess with you and I've been boxing for 20 years.

Lol you shouldn't pick online fights with people who WFH in IT 😂
- Man never give that up. I left a WFH job in IT that I wasn't really happy with, but it was fine. Left to a company where everything was better on paper. Now I work 50 hour weeks on average as salary, and don't have time to even use my benefits that actively are better.
  Never give it up. Neverrrrrrrr.

Ml, hex... what's the third suppose to be?

Lemmygrad
- I thought that was a nickname for .ml
- Oh, it's been so long since the last time I saw something from that instance that I totally forgot them
  Thanks
No, it's just new instances to easily create accounts in (why would those three be new when they're literally older than .world?)
- Is it to like muddy the waters? I can make 500 accounts on my instance if I wanted to?

I've just had .ml blocked for a long time and life's been good. I would prefer defederation. If put democratically, I'm sure that's what would be voted for as well.

Yeah me too. There's very little value to justify keeping them in my feeds. As soon as there is a decent alternative to lemmy I'm leaving.

I'm banned from 1 of 3...

... so far.

I hate to ask, but can someone help me understand what .ml is doing differently? And what's a tankie? Genuinely asking

Here's a recap post
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.
- Thanks! (Tanks?)

Hey you're that person who steals crow pictures aren't you?

Lmao all crossposted OC content from .ml comms is properly attributed to the Author/Photographer/Artist/User

Uh, are you serious? Why? What did you even say?

Hmmm prob a combination of:
My calls for defederation of .ml
My calls for boycotting of .ml comms
My cross-posting of content from .ml comms to non-.ml comms to reduce their influence
My constant collection of evidence of the .ml admins, mods and Tankie users
- .world isn't defederated from .ml? I thought it was, for some reason... Well, it is the admin instance so, I guess.
They are a famous fighter against the tankie triad, check the posts in !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
- Thanks!
Generally it's because they have their hatred of .ml as the driving force of half their free time. It's weird and off-putting.
- you know what's off-putting? lemmy.ml
- Good thing I'm not trying to put you on.
- Not sure about half their free time, but it does seem that anti-.ml sentiment is the reason, yes.

I’m new here and still grasping the way the fediverse works.

Is this basically saying 3 user accounts were made for the mass downvoting or what’s happening?

Instances are more like servers or domains. Your instance is lemmy.world. We can see votes from individual users because votes federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0).
In order for that federation to happen, the votes must be public. This prevents a rogue instance from just lying and telling other instances “yeah all my shit is super upvoted” and pushing itself to the top, or inversely pushing others down by spoofing downvotes. It also allows instances to properly block banned users; If I’m banned from a community/instance, my individual votes shouldn’t count towards it. So anyone with the know-how can inspect which individual users have voted on posts, and how they have voted.
Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts on each, just to mass downvote. It’s just blatant vote manipulation, and is why the admin stepped in to defederate (stop sending info back and forth) from the rogue instances.
You see stuff like that occasionally from the “tankie triad” instances, (lemmy.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmygrad) but they’re usually more subtle about it to avoid instantly getting defederated.
- We can see votes from individual users because votes to federate across instances, (like if you, on lemmy.world, were to vote on my instance, lemmy.dbzer0). Someone spun up three entire instances and mass created dozens of accounts on each, just to mass downvote.
  So where can we see this?
Little bit more.
Someone made 3 servers, then a bunch of accounts on those servers, then used all of those accounts to downvote.
Allegedly because I ain't got the time to manually verify that myself.
- Allegedly because I ain’t got the time to manually verify that myself.
  Crucial footnote.
- Thanks for the elaborating.
Servers, not users. Though each server would have users.
Although I don't think they're bots like the post is implying. OP just spends a lot of time annoying them.
What do people said, but since you're new, here's a recap post on what the whole Tankie situation is about (if you didn't encounter them on Reddit lol
- That "recap post" from you looks alot more like you attacking tankies than vice versa.

I think Lemmy libs are the most embarrassing group of 40 year old dorks this earth has ever seen.

I'm not convinced you think