There are some places on the Fediverse where intellectual discourse - and honest questions - are outright welcomed. Sadly, whenever communism is brought up in such a prominent community, it summons the trolls. “They” have decided that it is to be thus, and with their numbers they enforce their will upon the rest of us.

It was this way on Reddit too, towards the end, and even more so now. Also X - these latter two more from far-right than far-left but whatever they claim to believe, their attitudes seem to be the same: the consent of others matters little to them (edit: actually that is probably not true - it seems to only embolden them further to think about overriding those; if you go into their spaces and read their chatter you will see this for yourself).

I have some high hopes for platform alternatives to Lemmy - including Piefed, Mbin, and Sublinks - that will allow for some larger-scale changes to facilitate further separation from at least that particular source. But for now, if you do a Lemmy search for the keyword “tankie” (yes it’s a pejorative but… this is a search, and it’s what people use), you will find many, Many, MANY posts on this topic.

It is probably the single biggest division in all of Lemmy - and imho at least (+ that of MANY others, including Reddit mods of major subs as you will read) it is the single thing that prevented Lemmy from going mainstream, back during the Rexodus. “They” don’t want to hear “Western propaganda” on “their” platform, and vice versa, except almost every admin across the entirety of the Fediverse has refused to defederate from all of the “tankie” instances (notably, lemmy.cafe is the only one that blocks from all 3 - lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml - though the much milder midwest.social is still federated).