Yeah, like, if I’m supposed to avoid this place because of tankies in places, why am I not supposed to avoid reddit because of fascists and racists and sexists and transphobes and. waves at reddit in general

It seems like the same thing as the people who poo-poo tumblr for being all dRaMa and furries or something, ignoring that it’s essentially a giant jumble of blogs you pick and choose from, and that tumblr posts are constantly reposted to reddit but not vice-versa.

Anyway. My personal experience (admittedly limited) with tankies has been that they’re wildly wrong about a lot of shit, often disturbingly so, but also they tend to think trans people are human, so they’re already a mile more preferable to be around than the right to me. Tankies, to me, seem more like they’ve fallen for disinformation and “socialist” dictatorship PR campaigns and less like they’re purely full of hate for everybody not exactly like them. But I’m basing this mostly on the tiny handful of people I know personally so I could be mistaken overall. In any case, so far Lemmy seems fine in this respect (I just got here tho lol).