Strange, I see all the posts browsing the community on both lem.monster and (logged out) on SJW. Maybe it's a UI bug, because it sounds like it's filtering when you expect it not to.
I no longer have any idea what "tankie" means. It seems to mean anything from a specific kind of Stalin worshiper to any kind of socialist who sees value in state power. Or people who don't hate China, or are skeptical of certain US state department narratives.
It's hard to imagine a practical reason to do so. This, however, has not been a good heuristic for determining what a CEO having a temper tantrum will do, so who the hell knows.
I've yet to see any of them start posting. On my instance none of them could pass email validation because the emails were fake. I imagine this is true for many instances with a ton of bot sign-ups.
I think just reporting sign-ups as "users" is misleading. The user count on lemmy should reflect only approved/activated accounts, imo.
Removing entire features that nobody knows we have and haven't been supported for years