Hexbear and to a lesser degree ML and grad evoke the fear of becoming the Nazi bar, but for tankies.

If many new users land on “all” and sees a bunch of crazy posts, and dogpiled Engel posting on every mention of the west, they are gonna just leave.

If everyone is cool being known as a home of ultra leftist, often drifting into true tankie autocrat worship, then so be it.

I’m aware who built Lemmy and so on, no need to recite the lore.

If people want to discuss defederation there’s nothing wrong with that.