I have no love for tankies and detest them, but there is a key fundamental difference. Tankies by definition simp for communist or formerly communist regimes and ignore the authoritarian crackdowns and human rights abuses.

Nazis are in favor of the human rights abuses and want genocides. They have a racial superiority complex and desire an ethnostate.

One group ignores and makes excuses for detestable behavior. The other celebrates and advocates for the detestable behavior. It’s a very important difference. I don’t like either, but a tankie isn’t going to try and kill me for being an undesirable. They just won’t defend me if the government unfairly takes action against me or imprisons me.

Not saying I feel one way or the other, but complaining someone doesn’t dislike one group enough because they dislike another group more is sort of a weird argument. “I bet you’d feel differently if we were talking about something else entirely, you hypocrit.” doesn’t really hold up.

Y’know…it matters, but it doesn’t. Technically they wouldn’t have to let a neo-Nazi instance play with others if they didn’t want to, and come to that they could take the same route as Truth Social and just close it off from the rest of the Fediverse.

Technology can be used by anyone for good or evil regardless of the morality of the creator.

Even if the devs were literal Nazis, someone could just hard fork the software, and everyone could switch and continue on with their day. That’s why free software is beautiful.

Tankies suck, but they’re so far from nazis morally it’s not even really fair to tankies to compare them.

At least tankies generally speaking aren’t okay with genocide of innocents.