!asklemmy@lemmy.ml - ARE YOU A TANKIE? - informal poll results ~

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A ridiculous question. “Tankie” isn’t a term anyone self-identifies with, it’s mostly a term used by liberals to hurl at anyone to the left of them or anyone who agrees with western foreign policy. The survey results will be as meaningless as the term “tankie” itself.

Image description: A5 page, with various pie charts and text, indicating the results of an informal poll from lemmy.ml, full image text in spoiler

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ARE TANKIES TAKING CONSPIRING TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BAD TIME ON LEMMY.ML ??

HEXBEAR.NET

DOES THE WORK FOR YOU!!

WE ASKED !asklemmy@lemmy.ml ARE YOU A TANKIE?

First stack of pie charts shows the yes / no split, highlights that the lemmy.ml yes responses made up less than half of the yes votes, hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml only made up a small portion, some hexbear-ians even vote no
second and third pie charts show the yes votes, and no votes by instance respectively
third stacked pie chart shows the yes / no split by instance, overlay-ed with the total yes / no votes

only top level comments were counted
tankies are closer than they appear
Deeply unserious
NDTS

full results / data 
COUNTA of yes
@lemmy.ml = 10
@lemmygrad.ml = 5
@lemmy.world = 3
@lemmy.zip = 1
@hexbear.net = 3
@lemmy.sdf.org = 1
@lemmy.one = 1
Grand Total  = 24

COUNTA of no
@lemmy.ml = 2
@lemm.ee = 2
@lemmy.world = 8
@lemmy.blahaj.zone = 1
@reddthat.com = 1
@ttrpg.network = 1
@hexbear.net = 4
@lemmy.jhjacobs.nl = 1
Grand Total = 20

taken from archived post https://archive.md/AAY1L

this was fun, thanks for the polling idea, Kristina (I spent too long on these charts because yours looked so spiffy, I hope you specifically are impressed lol), solidarity cleaning that data up, and general reminder people only half read anything before launching into a diatribe

tl:dr yes, tankies are totally conspiring to make sure you have a bad time on lemmy.ml

specter

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
      21·
      5 months ago

      okay Ivan; go back to the gulag before putin puts you there. lol

    • Tja@programming.dev
      326·
      5 months ago

      I downvoted because after staring at it for 15 seconds I still had no idea what data it tried to transmit or what the message was. It’s just a bad infographic.

      • manuallybreathing@lemmy.mlOP
        521·
        5 months ago

        https://www.atlassian.com/data/charts/pie-chart-complete-guide

        Imagine being mad you can’t understand a pie chart divided into two colours, imagine being mad at a joke. Have we all forgotten this is !memes@lemmy.ml ??

        I literally made charts detailing that the majority of responses said they were tankies, and then I provided you the details.

        Downvotes are for rule breaking content, not for covering your big feelings.

          • 10_0@lemmy.ml
            41·
            5 months ago

            Maybe we should ask the admins to send out a survey to capture a more general consensus as possible, sounds reasonable and within the scope of a meme post. Also how was OP supposed to post two separate images when Lemmy doesn’t support multi-image posts? Was clicking on the image to enlarge it not an option for you?

        • Tja@programming.dev
          162·
          5 months ago

          I’m not mad, I just tried to understand the meme and after a fair effort I didn’t, so I downvoted because it was a poor meme.

          I’m sorry the downvotes hurt your feelings.

          For rule breaking content there is the report function.

        • Butt Pirate@reddthat.com
          51·
          5 months ago

          Why are there like four sections each labeled “yes” and “no” with no other distinguishing information?

          • bountygiver [any]@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            5 months ago

            ya it’s kind of poor labelling in OP’s part. Those are supposed to be “answered by uses that are not from hexbar/lemmygrad”, I also don’t know why the lemmy.ml vs others get their own ring instead of combining with the inner ring, it’s not like you can be in both instance at the same time as a single user.

          • 10_0@lemmy.ml
            21·
            5 months ago

            “Are you a tankie?” Yes or No. Creates pie charts of the results.

            • Butt Pirate@reddthat.com
              41·
              5 months ago

              Are you a tankie:

              No: 40.5
              No: 37.9
              No: 30.2
              No: 37.8
              Yes: 65.2
              Yes: 50.1
              Yes: 23.1

              I made up the numbers but this is not how pie charts work.

  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
    326·
    5 months ago

    All in all, “Tankie” is just the modern version of “Pinko!” I’ve seen Anarchists called Tankies, every manner of Marxists, non-Marxist Socialists, and more. It truly lost all of its meaning and is just Lemmy’s Red Scare.

    A huge portion of that comes from Lemmy.world, which is the largest instance to defederate intentionally from Hexbear and Grad, which has the presumably unintended effect of making Zionists and other far-right wingers feel comfortable in an Anticommunist instance.

      • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        I’m starting to realize one of the biggest issues with the fediverse is how much tribalism is going to play a part in interactions between instances. It seems like every instance is going to have some absurd stereotypes that get repeated as fact.

        Some people in .ml and hexbear were labeled tankies, accurately or not, and now you’re all tankies. And this post seems to be in response to that, saying the word tankie isn’t even a real thing. And now we have comments suggesting lemmy.world is also a unified group promoting certain ideologies. It’s the largest instance, we’re gonna have one-off crazies saying stupid stuff.

        I know it does makes a small difference being on .world vs .ml/hexbear. But most people in both are leftists if what I’ve seen is accurate. We’re just being stereotypical leftist splintering ourselves into separate groups over the smallest differences.

    • commiewithoutorgans [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
      81·
      5 months ago

      Unintended may be somewhat true, in that nobody explicitly had that as a conscious reason, but it was an obvious result that they could’ve known beforehand. So I don’t think it’s useful at all to call it unintended. Just an easily understood and expected side effect

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
        51·
        5 months ago

        That’s a fair enough critique. They definitely should have known what would happen, but this is more for the new users who came after defederation.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      163·
      5 months ago

      That’s what happens when you defederate from pro-Marxist instances. Zionists and anti-Communists start joining this anti-Marxist space and you have a whole new Red Scare on your hands.

  • 10_0@lemmy.ml
    141·
    5 months ago

    Tankies keep on posting walls of texts in !memes about communism, or was it the liberals, anyway people i don’t like are posting walls of text about communism in !memes… I love this post, for next time can you draw some conclusions about the survey so I don’t have to think to hard about these numbers, I can’t count past 10.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    142·
    5 months ago

    Reporter: [REDACTED]
    Reason: Spam or Abuse

    Reporter is having a bad time on lemmy.ml, what more evidence do you need?

  • Dippy@beehaw.org
    101·
    5 months ago

    I’ve never seen a set of graphs with so few labels for everything it was showing

  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    I’ve only ever seen people complain about them tangentially. Guess I’m not following the communities they usually pop up in