Noticed they are quite a large server with similar rules to ours (Be respectful, no bigotry, no porn, etc). Looking at their front page, it seems pretty tame, just anti-capitalist memes and discussion. Is there a reason we have blocked them?

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    Afaik, the people that run the place and the community they foster are out-and-out tankies.

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        Started as an insult for communists that believed communist governments could do no wrong. The term comes from people supporting the USSR rolling tanks into Hungary and Prague to crush rebellions. Today, the term also encompasses people who are vehemently anti-west to the point where they’d defend Russian or Chinese imperialism because they’re “sticking it to the west”.

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          Ahh. Fair enough. That’s a shame, the server has some interesting discussion.

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        When I looked there previously it looked like a bunch of mostly harmless cookers. Looking again now, I see hateful posts such as this:

        I’ve now defederated them. The NSFW focused instances are defederated to minimise potential legal complications, ie to protect this instance.

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          the Nswf instances are defederated.

          Ah that explains why some post on other instances were complaining about porn everywhere and I had no idea what they were on about.

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      Visiting that site… I’m not sure what it even is? Astoturfing for cookers?

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        Or an NSA honeypot. Either way, it’s easier for them when the cookers congregate in one spot.

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    I’m not certain, because by the time I joined the site they had already been defederated here and on many other instances. But I believe they had a reputation for being quite heavy brigaders. It’s not necessarily because of them having a bad ideology, but because they push that ideology in an aggressive way in other communities.

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      The reputation for brigading and generally causing drama on other instances is why I blocked them from day 1.

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    Should really hold all gov and corporations accountable. Regardless of any affiliation.

    Basically nobody is looking out for the little guy

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    I’m loving this that the communities are defederated, but there’s nothing stopping you from making accounts there.