I mean… I’ve seen more people saying that phrase, than tankies in my local feed, and I’ve seen some memes that looked like imperialist propaganda on the Lefty memes community being downvoted to hell, there are some tankies, but I still consider this instance an Anarchists one rather than one overtaken by Tankies.
In dbzer0 defederations are rare, we had a community vote months ago to deferate from hexbear because of their bad moderation and the result was not doing it, the philosophy here usually is that if you don’t like some content or community, just block them.
This also happens to me, using the Smarttube flatpak, I think that it’s a “feature” from the youtube tv original app, and it bleeds into Smarttube because what it does is faking being the original youtube tv app with some extra modifications.
Edit, I am using VacuumTube from flatpak, not Smarttube, but it’s the same concept.
The vote was to defederate from some communities, not the entire instance, but I don’t know what happened then.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728