When I say tankie, I’m referring to the people toeing the party line of the CCP and Putin. That isn’t communism; that’s a specific breed of “communism” that’s mostly capitalism surrounding cults of personality.
If you used an app that doesn’t show you what instance people belong too, you wouldn’t be able to tell them from other users.
If half the people I saw from hexbear weren’t spamming their huge emotes every other comment, I might be inclined to agree. If they weren’t the only people in threads (besides lemmygrad) supporting authoritarian regimes, I might be inclined to agree. Sadly, both of those happen often in my experience.
You’re free to disagree with me on the comments I just made, that’s what’s great about discussions online, but hexbear members are very confrontational, to a trollish degree, in how they discuss these topics from what I’ve seen. It doesn’t need to be “every member” of hexbear as you say. It just has to be a big enough problem that the mods and users want it gone. That is happening fairly often recently based on the posts showing up when I browse lemmy. Hell, that’s how I ended up here.
I want them to. I opted in and use that feature.