Actually I think this comment unintentionally answers OP's question.

I think a common tankie story is:

Realization that much of western media is propaganda or influenced by propaganda.

Finding that enemies of the American empire (and Europe) with some semblance of power agree that western media is propaganda, and these people are MLM communists.

After they've established credibility with their accurate criticisms of western capitalist society, tell you that, oh, by the way, those propaganda outlets in the west also lie about us, actually almost all of what we do is awesome and people who claim otherwise are automatically suspect.

Number 3 is a mistake, I think, but it's an understandable one. This isn't super fair to tankies but the analogy I'd give is to people who fall under the spell of someone like Jordan Peterson: he sounds smart, and he lulls you into a sense of security with good advice about taking care of yourself, keeping your house clean, etc., and then once he's gotten your trust he gently introduces stuff like "oh by the way evolution proves that men and women shouldn't work together" or whatever, and because he's made sensible points up until then, your guard is down and you don't critique it in your head before accepting it.

https://reason.com/2025/12/26/here-are-5-wars-trump-started-or-expanded-in-2025/

Working now for me too, thanks!

Yeah, it's back for me too. @jwr1

Thank you, sorry for being stupid :)

Thanks jwr!
By the way - is there a way to donate to you for server costs or your hard work in general?

Thanks jwr. As always, wonderful that you are so on top of things.

Question - is there a non-techy way to check the version of a given instance? Asking because I have an account on another instance.

Thanks for this post. This happened once before, maybe about a month ago, and seemed to fix itself after a day. Hopefully it won't be an issue too long - can someone ping the admin?