You have to do the former, regardless of if you do the latter.

The issue I have is that it isn’t really compatible with the idea of having a big social media network. If they wanted to make a “safe space”, well, doing that via Lemmy – or any federated platform – wasn’t the right choice.

It’d be like trying to make a “safe space” on Reddit. The idea just doesn’t make sense. It’s too inherently open, too public, for that to be viable.

Oh, you’re not wrong, I’m sure it’ll all shake out relatively quickly.

I’m aware of what tankie means. I’m a Marxist myself.

I stand by my analysis. Tankie is not a synonym for communist, and to hate tankies is not to hate all communists.

Edit: “Tankie” isn’t even a synonym for “Marxist-Leninist”, for crying out loud. (Though that is conceptually closer.)

I don’t think tinwhiskers has problems with communists. If they had problem with communists, they would surely have said “communists”.

They said “tankies”. I am more inclined to suggest their issue is with tankies, not communists.

It actually kinda does ruin something. Beehaw was setting itself up to have the defacto communities for a bunch of topics.

Urgh, but that’s gross and power-trippy.

This only solves the problem for you. It doesn’t solve the problem for the community, nor does it scale well (if everyone does it, then you’re just gonna repeat the same dance over and over).

Hot take — maybe it was Beehaw that was getting too big too quickly, then?

They decided to take on an enormous workload, running so many communities, communities that then became the defacto standard communities for those topics.

That seemed to be a situation where the head mod was going against the wishes of the other mods. Not sure how I feel about it, personally, but it’s not quite as simple as “Spez made the subreddit open against the wishes of everyone involved”.