shoutout when their idol, Hasan, had to stop streaming as Police questioned him about a meme that he flashed on camera.

Worth noting I didn't ban this guy

The instance itself. The admins, half of whom are openly tankies and actively participate in Hexbear troll campaigns, are all tech bros who love their AI and will actively silence users who are critical of it.

I wouldn't recommend dbzer0. Since the AI purge, where many users who were critical that you can't be pro-AI and anarchist at the same time were banned, the instance has been largely taken over by tankies. Even their own admins are self-proclaimed tankies, and all their popular users are tankies who have accounts on Hexbear. They're, at the very least, openly a tankie bar.

Lemmy.ml was created by the lemmy developers following the quarantine of ChapoTrapHouse on reddit. ChapoTrapHouse was the largest tankie subreddit and extremely toxic.

Following the development of Lemmy, lemmy.ml split into Lemmygrad, where Lemmygrad is where they hold their more extreme opinions and lemmy.ml is supposed to be the more presentable side. However, the users are largely the same. One's mask-off, one's mask-on.

I didn't ban this user and their ban is an instance one. They must've violated the instance-wide rules, probably hate speech.

case in point, caught up in campist nonsense

Tankies are often so caught up in campist nonsense that they can't fathom that someone being anti-communist doesn't mean they're pro-capitalist.