Out of curiosity I went to exploding-heads.com and it looks like it’s not working anymore. Is there a new place they hang out now? Are they undercover on the regular servers or something? It’d be a little surprising to me if they all just gave up on being active on the Fediverse.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    10 months ago

    I miss the tankies. I assume they’re still around somewhere, but now they’re all drowned out by the “look what I found on Twitter” bros. I didn’t agree with them, but for a while, Lemmy felt like the old internet.

    • dtc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39·
      10 months ago

      Lmao they got defederated en masse because (drum roll) they were all abrasive pricks. Same with these maga chuds.

      • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        I’ve argued with both tankies and MAGA people, and the tankies were way more abrasive. Like bad-faith to a degree that’s genuinely hard to believe. I still loved them.

      • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        Haha excellent. I was completely sincere when I was telling that other guy that Lemmy feels like a monoculture now, and I liked the “tankie vs leftie vs nerd” generation of it way better. When I first came on and it was ideologically diverse I was like “holy shit, score, I’m staying here forever.” Like I say, it felt like the old internet.

            • dtc@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              10 months ago

              Careful, this guy fucks a LOT of black and Spanish girls. Idk why that’s relevant but knowledge should be shared.

              • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                2·
                10 months ago

                Yeah. So, I misunderstood a little bit.

                I have friends IRL who are hard-core into the MAGA propaganda, to the point that they talk to each other online and offline about gearing up for war if the Democrats keep it up. I want to know more about that because it’s relevant and dangerous. It seems important to have a good awareness of what’s up with it in detail. And, in all sincerity, talking with those friends did make me sympathize with them for how the modern online world wants to make them pariahs. I had absolutely no sympathy at the beginning, but at a certain point I “got it” and understood how it feels on their end. I see them more as victims of an incredibly powerful propaganda system than anything else, and I don’t think being antagonistic to them “back,” even though yes they are being hateful, is in any way productive. And yes, that includes interfering with their freedom to be able to say what it is that they sincerely think (“free speech”), in some cases.

                I was hearing Art Bell and Adbusters and “Off the Hook” (if anyone knows that show) before some of these people were born, so I can have a good amount of sympathy for someone who wants to be anti-establishment, and genuinely feel like I can rock with them depending on where they’re coming from, even if politically I think they’re dead wrong. We can talk about it. Free speech, right?

                So, I was curious about this. I did go to the exploding-heads replacement and look at it. Honestly? The issue isn’t anything political; the issue is that they just want to be assholes. A good example is the guy who told me “You are a nobody” “You have no brain in your head” “s***” “f******” “dumb f****** b*******” and so on. It’s just vitriol without much of any kind of political subject matter. I can understand why they got defederated so unanimously. No one even pretended to take me up on my offer, hey send me your censored truth over a DM and let’s talk. There’s no politics beyond a vague “fuck Biden” vibe, just shared bitterness that drove everyone else away from even wanting to talk to them. IDK, I’m not into that. I hope they get out of whatever mental trouble leads them to act that way, but it’s not my problem and not something I’m interested in.

                TL;DR they’re not political, they’re just dicks.