I chose sopuli because I liked the name and had seen some people from it and I wanted a new on in the big lemmy.world outage, I didn't choose it for particular rules or culture, and tbh I rarely use the account, except for browsing all sometimes so I couldn't tell you what the instance is like, besides the steam deck community being there for some reason. And for the record I don't randomly call people Nazis or Qanon.

About MLs/tankies In my experience MLs and tankies are basically the same, they call themselves MLs but others who dislike them call them tankies, though there are others who would also fall under tankies, and also some MLs who would dispute my characterisations to follow. They are technically leftists, somewhat related to democratic socialists like myself in sharing some of the same values but are ok with authoritarian means of either creating a socialist/communist state (such as a vanguard party) or sustaining it. As such they often defend China and Russia/Soviet union. Basically communists (Marxist) but authoritarian (Leninist).