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Hexbear, lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml are the "Tankie Triad".
Hexbear is the worst most extreme of them and lemmy.ml is the least which is why they've managed to avoid getting defederated from world (either that or because they're like the third largest instance behind only .world and SJW)
Hexbear is pretty widely defederated
A lot of .ml users and communities are there just because it was the only big instance much earlier on. I'm in no way a tankie but still use .ml a lot (a community I run is on there) because it was the first one I made and i'm too lazy to look into new instances or switch.
yeah the other two I definately agree with, but lemmy.ml is mostly tame.
It's all under the surface, the admins, mods and a good portion of users have just as extreme viewpoints, but tend to walk the line quite carefully to avoid being defederated by .world
That's just not true. They don't give a shit about .world. They don't even have to give a shit about .world. They've got plenty of traffic to manage without .world. It's just stupid to do so over some squabbles
Plus, everyone secretly loves the animosity. Like how the Dutch are always making fun of Belgians, but if anyone else ever says anything bad about Belgians, they'll get a kick in the nuts from the Dutch.
You must not have spent much time over there, go into any .ml threads where .world gets brought up and they'll shit all over us for being a CIA front, US State Department Mouthpiece, nothin but bots, "Reddit 2.0", "fake leftist", front for the US military, to stupid to realize we're just digesting propaganda and on and on and on
But yet, they won't defederate and they get awfully mad whenever someone does bring up .world defederating from them.
So I ask you, if they're so full with traffic to manage, then why do they not defederate from .world?
My guess is as good as any, maybe it's because tankies need someone to tank against. Can't be a racist without other races around. Can't be a misogynist with women around. Can't be a transphobe without trans people around. Can't be a .ml tankie without .world people around.
About the traffic, they (used to be or are they still?) the default instance on join-lemmy.org . Thats how a lot of people joined that instance and that's how they have gained a lot of users and general communities. Maybe that has changed though, I really don't care enough to actually check current metrics.