Even if you disagree with them, Trotskyists are not tankies, simple Marxists aren't tankies, leftists curious and exploring different theories aren't tankies, and ffs anarchists like myself are not tankies.
I feel like "tankie" indicated a very specific worldview at one time, but it's been used lately a lot to mean things like "doesn't agree with nations supporting oppression and inequity up to and including genocide" -- which is drastically at odds with how I've seen the term used in the past, no?
I get what you're saying, and I've personally experienced some of what you're talking about regarding. ml, but I just want to add that it is a large instance, and I'd not assume that everyone on .ml is bad. I feel the same about the rampant liberalism on .world, but like .ml there are a lot of users who join just because it's a large popular instance without investigating further, so I try to remind myself that it's just a handful of users causing most of the problems. The majority of users on .ml and .world are probably just fine.