New rules in MoG lmao

I want to start by saying that I know I played a part in letting this spiral out of control. For my part in escalating the situation, I apologise. I do not want this to keep escalating. I want to explain where I was coming from and why I made the choices I did. For starters, I was suffering, and still am, from a loss in my family. I try to keep my personal life separate, but anxiety still seeps through. I'll try to keep that under control better.

I banned dbzer0 users because it looked like my community was being brigaded. Other communities have also banned dbzer0 users for vote manipulation.

I shared what I thought was clear evidence of this, and the response I got was that admins cannot control what their users do, while at the same time, I was held responsible for the language one of my users used. To show that I'm reaching out in good faith, I went ahead and banned that user.

When I tried to talk about it, I was called a nazi and a fascist, then banned along with people who defended me. That was painful. I have spent years challenging extremists of all kinds, from nazis to tankies to QAnons to religious fundamentalists. I have been banned from many far-right sites and communities for speaking against them. I helped shut down Ruqqus and /r/uncensorednews, which were crawling with neo-nazis. To then be called a nazi myself is deeply hurtful.

I know why these accusations are thrown. They are meant to sting, serving as shorthand, and are intended to shut down dialogue. But for me, it's personal, it cuts deep because I have consistently stood against those movements.

MoG has been targeted again and again because it is one of the only communities that openly stands against the Tankie Triad. We have had doxxing, bot spam, DDoSing, fake accounts, fake nudes, and harassment campaigns.

Much of this has come from the same circles that your instance federates with. This is not just disagreement; it is a real security problem for us and for Lemmy as a whole.

There is also the concern of tankies infiltrating the dbzer0 instance in bad faith. They present themselves as part of the broader left, but their goal is to shift conversations, defend authoritarian regimes, and undermine anyone who challenges them. This makes it difficult to separate genuine users from those acting with an agenda, and it creates an environment where communities like mine feel targeted rather than supported.

Some of these prominent tankies are Diva, Cowbee and Davel (lemmy.ml admin),

Diva is a prominent liar and openly a tankie.

Davel is a lemmy.ml admin, who regularly defends authoritarian states and bans anyone critical of them, they want to combine Anarchists and Tankies together, and removes posts critical of Putin's Russia killing women and children. And that's just a few examples of the many.

Cowbee is also openly a tankie, who defends Imperialist China, actively calls users critical of the CCP racist, and defends dictatorships like North Korea

Tankies have a long history of using and betraying anarchists. Look at Kronstadt, the Russian Civil War, or Mao’s crackdown on anarchist movements. They speak in leftist language but always bend it back into authoritarian ends. I am saying that because the pattern is real and worth being clear about.

That is why MoG has strict rules about tankie rhetoric in our space. It is not arbitrary. It is because tankies consistently try to worm their way into leftist communities, blur the lines, and convince people that opposing them is just infighting. Yet what they defend is authoritarianism, state violence, and repression. We have decided not to platform that and instead to speak out against it.

So here is where I stand now. I have undone the bans. I want to move forward in good faith. I do not want fellow anti-authoritarians treated as enemies when we already face larger threats. I am asking for the same in return. Please do not brand me or my community as fascist or nazi when our record clearly shows the opposite.

We all oppose capitalism and authoritarianism alike. That is the fight worth putting our energy into. Not tearing each other down.

To quote db0: Campism, not even once, kids.

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