Sorry to ask. I guess I'm one of the lucky 10,000 today, but what is a Tankie?

This photo makes him look like the terrorist from Contact.

I tried signing up to lemmy.world and it just wouldn't progress past spinny waiting graphic. Then lemmy.ml and it said application sent and then never heard back. Kbin just worked, so here I am. Also signed up for wt.social, but tried to sign up for trust cafe and it was just broken.

I'm finding that much or most of what I saw on Reddit is here too, so I may actually phase it out myself.