Yes, it'll hamstring the growth of lemmy. I'm currently using kbin instead and as soon as it has an app to use I probably won't interact directly with lemmy. All simply because of the tankie baggage and I'm not the only one.

Well, if the people around you are more interested into left-shaming for supporting an open to everyone technology (You should remember them that Truth Social is a shameless fork of mastodon code) than trying to understand the true « free speech » potential of Lemmy / Mastodon, maybe you should move on and find some more suitable friends.

Since the pandemic I kicked off those « I’m not political but » people of my life and I’m way happier now.

The term "tanky" is actually new to me, and something I had to read up on. If anything, I find the way Lemmy is structured to be very appealing to anarchists, libertarians, communists, and conservatives alike.

It's just my opinion, but the perception of Lemmy is not universal, and seems to be from whatever vantage point people want to take. Rexxitors are valuing the "not run by Spez" and elements of community driven oversight free of investors, people banned from popular subreddits/Reddit itself seem to value the diverse moderators running different nodes, anarchists love being free from any corporate control and the "wild west" mentality of some instances, and conservatives will value any instance with free speech norms.

It's going to really amount to the instances as people learn more about it, rather than the framework itself.

no because no normie knows what a tankie is

Yes, it will.

Join us on kbin - it's friendly ;) https://readit.buzz