It’s not like Lemmy is different in any way, lol.
Yeah I came across lemmy Because I was told that this place believes in free speech even if it’s something you don’t agree with. That is not true though because I’ve had mods delete my comments lol.
Yeah, it’s the same shit.
I wouldn’t say Lemmy is much better though… It’s just Reddit but not on Reddit.
Lemmy feels a lot more like old reddit.
New Reddit feels artificial. The written content posts LOOK like they’re from AI. Much of the subreddits are now curated. You can’t say Luigi.
Here, it’s a bit of a wild west. And that’s okay.
There isn’t much written content posts. But the comments? I’m loving it. It comes off genuine. Human. Real. Even the shitty ones that make me want to downvote but damn do I somewhat see their perspective.
Thank you for yours!
I haven’t been banned for voicing disdain about Israel here. Just a few deleted comments. But no bans.
since we’re allegedly allowed to talk about this here, what was your stance on the 2024 election (if you’re american)? I’m gonna be honest, I still don’t understand how people came to the conclusion that Trump would have been better for helping Gazans.
I’ll be honest. I saw Trump winning coming. Because a lot of people I know were repeating lies they heard from internet content. I could t put up a fight because it was just so dumb. People lost jobs. People were financially stressed. It just was a lot to fight. So much of social media has been weaponized. I was banned from Facebook before the election because I was having it out with Bot accounts calling for civil wars and violence. So Facebook does nothing about the terrorism content but blocked me for calling them out. It’s been a godsend not being on Facebook anymore.
It has a similar problem, but a better version of it.
From my point of view, Lemmy creates its bubble just by being friendly to one subset of views and hostile to another; and so people with some subsets of views don’t feel welcome - and they leave. This creates a kind of bubble effect; but I’m ok with that - because frankly there are some views that I really don’t want to see here anyway. Having diversity of views is good, but establishing social norms about what is acceptable or unacceptable isn’t necessarily a bad thing either.
On the other hand Reddit (in addition to the above effect) also has a big dose of top-down enforcement. Effectively it has a small hidden group of people who can control what everyone else is allowed to say. They can ban certain words and sentiments; and use techniques like shadowbanning or just algorithmic demoting to reduce the influence of stuff they don’t like. So they get a bubble as well, but the bubble can be guided and influenced by the people who control the platform. For my point of view, that makes it worse.
Lemmy.ml bans you for shit and giggles, basically if you don’t agree that murderous dictators are the future, you will very likely be banned. If you’re new to Lemmy and happen to stumble upon .ml first (and are not a red fascist), you’ll get the same treatment.
Lemmy.ml is still a big instance, so chances of this happening are pretty high.
I read that as “murdering dictators is the future” and was like… I’m not all caught up on .ml, but I didn’t think they’d be down with murdering dictators. Then I realized I read it wrong.
Changed it to murderous to avoid confusion, it did read a little weird.
Can agree with this. Don’t disagree with the Israelis. You will get at least a temp ban.
Lemmy users are not better… but Lemmy is.
Apt
install
I just got banned for commenting " [Removed by Reddit] " .
I got banned for saying “ I’ll probably get banned for saying this but if you’re a Nazi or a Nazi supporter you deserve to get punched in the face” in response of a lady that was going around Boston doing the heil Hitler salute
That’s literally all of the Internet, not just Reddit. Everyone putting themselves in echo chambers and tuning everything else out. Modern Internet is just people wanting to be told they’re right and be showered with worthless affirmations.
I disagree.
Well, you’re wrong. And this is the internet, and you’re not allowed to be wrong, so…
I’m 14 and this is deep.
Powerful reddit energy in this post
Banning is just an administrative action. The sentiment behind it is just as present on lemmy and everywhere else. Social forums tend to turn into echo chambers as ordinary users, who don’t have ban power but wish they did, use downvotes to suppress whatever they don’t agree with.
I mean, it’s really no different on here. Giant echo chambers.
We’re a smaller chamber but a lot more echo.
We’re a smaller chamber but a lot more echo.
echo…echo
Agreed. Is there any Lemmy group where left, right, and center can discuss issues without some resorting to name calling?
The issues the right care about are Haitians eating cats and dogs. How do you not call them idiots?
Don’t forget that also being anti woke for whatever reason is really important.
Which basically is just a codeword that just means they think they can bully anyone they disagree with to make them fall in line
And they’re always the victim of course
I don’t know of any place people can discuss issues without name calling.
Of course you don’t, you shoe.
Moccasin behaviour, fr.
Agreed
Right isn’t welcome here at all. I’m center and this place is hostile as fuck.
Honestly I think that isn’t an issue with any one platform so much as it is one of the biggest successes of the extreme right. By being obnoxiously loud, openly self contradictory and everywhere in the media the extreme right has succesfully portrayed themselves as being representative of the entire right wing. This leaves the moderate right isolated, less likely to co-operate with the centre or left on issues where they might agree, and more likely to embrace the extreme right.
TLDR: Firehose of falsehood works even better when it splashes on the guy next to you.
There aren’t Lemmy groups where left, right, OR center can do that
agreed
And by choice. Uh, a user has a different opinion than me by about 2 %? BLOCKED FOR LIVE MOTHRFUCKER
Reddit is just edgy self aware facebook.
Meanwhile lemmy appears to self select Linux users
Early adopters and technical users are more likely to be free/libre users.
I assume this is your opinion, but you present it as a scientifically proven fact.
I’ve been online since early 1990s and this is my repeated empirical experience that communities with a technical entry threshold self-select for technical users initially.
Most social network users are already hopelessly confused by the concept of federation and need to pick up an instance.
Are you suggesting this is some kind of modern usenet?
I assume they’re just making more noise.
That’s because our fans are going full speed because of bad Linux drivers. We have to be loud to hear ourselves over them.
Is there any instance that has a poll for Linux questions for the registration yet? If there isn’t I would be surprised.
In my limited experience with Lemmy I would say the problem here is worse, but different due to the whole instance and decentralized thing.
I definitely don’t think Lemmy has much ground to stand on in terms of looking down on reddit for the echo chamber they created.
Not sure if you are correct. On lemmy we have several different echo chambers with many interconnections. Best seen in the .world .lm flame wars. This might be a rather unique situation tbh and quite interesting for a sociological study, I guess.
I have been on Lemmy for over a year, and honestly, Lemmy should be looking up to Reddit on the echo chamber topic, not down on them lol. Like, if you thought Reddit was bad with Witch Hunts / Block Sprees / Whatever other tactics to create an echo chamber, Lemmy makes Reddit look like it has the mose diversity of opinions and posts on the entire internet.
I first came here from Reddit. About 2 or 3 months prior to the API Shutdown, I deleted my Reddit account on my own. Wasn’t banned, never had been banned, just didn’t want an account anymore. Then I saw in a Discord server someone talking about the API Shutdown, so I went to read some posts on Reddit about it. This is where I saw someone mention Lemmy. They talked about it like this place that was open to any ideas, any ideology (obviously not disgusting criminal activity like CSAM, yes I was here on Lemmy for the CSAM raiding early on unfortunately), was not politically affiliated with any political group or government. Sounded great to me, since I don’t care about politics and don’t want to see it. I have to see it enough in real life and I just don’t want to deal with that crap any more than I have to. Just Lemmy users talking about their niche hobbies or groups. Basically, I was sold the idea of Reddit without politics.
For the first maybe, 3 or 4 months, Lemmy was pretty good. Not politically infested, nearly everything was on topic, not a lot of bots or spam. Genuine conversations between people that didn’t always agree but those conversations did not devolve into name calling or anything. Dunno what happened, but that Lemmy is gone.
And before anyone brings it up, yes, I am a Lemmy.world mod for c/cars. The LW Admins asked me to be a mod because I was one of the more active users in that sub, along with the other current mod. At first, I said no. I didn’t want to be a moderator, and honestly I still don’t. But after asking me more and me saying no more, eventually the admins convinced me to be a mod. Here’s the thing: I have never had to take moderator action on anything. Don’t know if I ever will because of how low traffic that community is. But my mod style is simple: I don’t care if I agree with what is said or not. I only care if a rule is broken. Justice should not have an opinion, so when I need to take action I disconnect it from my own ideas and opinions. Kinda like what one is supposed to do as part of a Jury in the US Justice System.
Anyway, the point is, Lemmy and Reddit have pretty much become the same, because they are now both infected with the same basic problem. So I wouldn’t say Reddit is worse than Lemmy or better. They both have pros and cons that make them more or less equal, just the pros and cons are in opposite ways. Perfectly balanced, if you will.
I would say that Reddit’s problems are enhanced by complicit admins. I feel that Lemmy instances can get just as bad as any subreddit power tripping mods can be. The good news though is that users have much more power to start a fresh instance and get it popular as the main name of the instance before the @ can stay the same. This is a big deal compared to Reddit imo, as the ability to hold the name of the community gives a lot more leverage over legitimacy. Take r/manga for instance, I believe most of the mods over there are now inactive. Another head mod has not come in to fill the void, and the subreddit has not posted things like applications for new mods. The userbase feels stuck to that subreddit due to how impactful the name is in attracting users to the community. Sure can offshoot can slowly grow in popularity, but it may be missed by the people that stop their search after typing in ‘manga’ to the search bar.
TL;DR Lemmy has it’s issues, but it is much harder for any one instance’s mods to be overly harsh on their rules as the risk of users jumping to a new instance with the same name is relatively low.
I agree. Of course lemmy and Reddit are the same. The tech might be different, but the format and the people are the same. Reading all this “us vs them” nonsense feels silly.
Maybe there is a misogynist instance for you somewhere: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=19216260
🤣 that’s the most mild misogyny I’ve ever heard. If that’s all it takes to get banned from an entire instance you guys are fucked in the future. I can’t believe I’ve not seen this pettiness before. This whole project is a joke. Death threats are a ok, but mild misogyny gets you banned? You all are warped in the head it that’s how you feel.
but […] misogyny gets you banned?
Are you surprised that misogyny gets them banned?
This person has indeed been instance banned from SJW: https://sh.itjust.works/u/MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
Your own modlog isn’t really painting the best picture: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=19133771
Remember when we once spoke about how a lot of Redditors are not people we want here and the culture here repulsing some isn’t necessarily a bad thing?
Well.
The instance and communities bans seems to indicate they are indeed getting repulsed
🤣 sure dude, you should look at the comments I was defending against. Threats of murder, misandry, misinformation, harassment. That’s all alright with you though. Man the left is so cooked if y’all gatekeep like that. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say Lemmy is much much worse with censorship and gatekeeping than reddit ever was/is.
Edit: censorship for perceived “liberalism,” give me a break. What a crook of manure.
Edit2: it’s even worse than I thought 🤣. Banned for “ignorant lib chauvinism” what a dumb reason. Censored for racism for saying I don’t give Jews the benefit of the doubt after they pulled a genocide against Palestinians.
The internet is a tool. In the age of AI what we need more than ever is real local communities. I think when it comes to getting the truth out it is pearls before swine. Throw them meat and see how the herd digests. It is like digital drive by. The real world is outside. the internet is a tool. Don’t be a tool. worship principal not men.It don’t take any of this online stuff too seriously and with a historical framework I know with certainty that capitalism with be abolished or justice will be served. We still live in the age of imperialism and capitalism is the economic system that is used globally. Fascist are the useful idiots of empire. With the left and right paradigm, there are points of intersectionality that will eventually bring both sides together. The rich know this, that’s why they’re building cop cities. The discourse in the public is surface level and never gets to the root cause because they never plan on dealing with that and they just want you to be happy with what you got, which is not much. But don’t let the internet be a crutch. One day, they’ll start snatching us all up. Like the UK. Black bag and all. It’s not just immigrants that they plan On snatchin’ up. I don’t know if anybody remembers, but there was a black socialist group full of aging boomers that got raided by Biden’s police state. So both political parties are pretty much slaves to foreign investment, which is really just a money laundering scheme that goes back into the treacherous pockets of the ruling elite that lives in the United States. For instance, the German people are not devils, not even during World War II, because every war is a bankers’ war, and it has nothing to do with the Jews. If you have a well-rounded understanding of up to World War I up to now, you realize that none of this stuff is really a surprise. The Book of History never closes. The United States did not destroy Hitler’s Germany, but employed the fascist to fight the Soviet Union. Hence, the saying that fascist are the useful idiots of empire. And empire doesn’t make room for democracy. As the bread gets short, people will start to see their place in the hierarchy. It’s also called the Imperial Boomerang. What goes around, comes around. Yankee gets what Yankee deserves.
Despite the wall of text, you’re not wrong. This was an appreciated comment. I do think it’s incredibly important for folks to remain vigilant, and probably get armed, but at least vigilant as a community. Times aren’t good for any lefty when the SecDef says he believes there are “irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process”. Sounds like violence to me, friends.
The left should gatekeep this, yall can always host your own instance and yell into a void
Yes more leftist echo chambers. That’s sure to bring the masses to our cause. I guess we don’t really share a cause. No wonder right-wing fascism is getting so popular.
we definitely dont share a cause lmao, you’re a hateful little bitch, hang on to your gun when you sleep at night
Yeah that whole situation was stupid.
I still cannot believe they legitimately think multiple death threats (even if they were ridiculous) aren’t as bad as my original “misogynistic” comment.
Most of the mods on Lemmy are a joke and a good majority of the users themselves are lost. It’s whatever.
Our only hope is that more users with varying options join over time and they simply get overwhelmed by people having normal ass opinions.
Or they double down and start banning people even sooner.
Only time will tell if Lemmy grows or they will drive into a slow death.
Why are you here then? Banned from reddit?
I’ll tell you I’ve never been censored for saying Jews are commiting a genocide against the Palestinians on Reddit. Say it here though and you’ll be censored and labeled a racist. I’ve never been banned from huge swaths of servers for “ignorant lib chauvinism,” on Reddit. Not once in the 14 years I used the platform.
I’ve had all 3 of my reddit accounts banned for that
I’ll tell you I’ve never been censored for saying Jews are commiting a genocide against the Palestinians on Reddit.
I’ve been censored for that many times. So have a whole lot of other people here. So you must be oen of the luckiest people alive. Go buy a lottery ticket.
If thats your truth, cool, but you cant deny that a lot of people here are reddit banning refugees, and they mostly say it was because of zionist mods pushing their agenda.
If that’s your truth then fine, but just know Lemmy is at least as censorship heavy and echochambery as Reddit. About the only thing I can say here that I can’t on Reddit is Luigi.
I’ve spotted tons of death threats, misandry, and calls to violence here. Those aren’t good ingredients to build a reddit replacement.
Isn’t that why most people are here at this point? I know the original Exodus started with the whole API thing but I think Lemmy is majority ex-reddit users who got banned in the last year or so. My ban came outta nowhere and they didn’t even tell me what rule I broke. When I appealed asking what rule I had broken they instantly denied it without clarifying what rule I had supposedly broken. I had been banned from a handful of random subs over the years for various stupid things but I had never ticked off any admin or anything. I’m not the only person who had an account with hundreds of thousands of karma that was almost as old as the site just randomly get thanos snapped either.
Agreed. When I first came here I thought Lemmy would be open to all points of view.
Agreed. When I first came here I thought Lemmy would be open to all points of view.
Lemmy already experienced Wolfballs, the de-facto right-wing instance, which their admin closed once they realized they were hosting a Nazi bar who were actually serious about White Nationalist nonsense and not just joking to “troll the lib snowflake”. We tried it, it wasn’t fun. Free speech absolutism is a pointless idealist approach to society - building a community where anyone can express anything will drive away people who want useful discussions and don’t want to be regularly dehumanized for their existence (not their opinions or acts, but their existence). Diversity of opinion and the freedom to express is productive and constructive, but only up to a point. If someone came on here and persistently and seriously advocated that everyone whose name begins with an “M” should be publicly executed… what’s the point in tolerating that point of view? It brings none of the benefits of free expression. It’s a waste of time that doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously. And if it weren’t so silly and people actually did get lynched for having a name starting with “M”, it would be threatening and make people uncomfortable being here. If this “M” example seems too ridiculous, replace it with something equally pointless like “not being straight” or “not being white”, which people do get killed for.
If this site were sprinkled with literal neo-Nazis and child abuse advocates (this isn’t a mythical “what if”, one can go to plenty of “free speech extremist” forums to see these people in action), then would you stick around? I’d go to somewhere else where I wouldn’t have to see that pointless trash. And this isn’t because of some mindless intolerance of political views - I’ve had serious political conversations with actual Mussolini-reading Fascists - but because some points of view are inherently antisocial, willfully repulsive and exclusionary, and they inevitably destroy communities. There’s no material reason to be open to their antisocial points of view, it doesn’t benefit the community or bring useful insight. It’s an abstract right which causes more harm than benefit, more oppression than liberty. It’s a waste of time and space.
All points of view can exist on different instances. Doesn’t mean that every instance has to federate with all other instances
Unfortunately no lol. Lemmy has a handful of stances that are “allowed” and if you stray from those you’re toast.
You can get banned from entire instances just because the mod of that instance saw you make a comment they didn’t like on a completely different instance and sub.
It’s fine though. Each instance can do whatever they want. I do think it inhibits growth and actual discussions from taking place though. If you ban everyone that thinks even slightly differently than you it just means you’re left with a bunch of people that all pretty much agree I everything. Not exactly a riveting conversation.
Not just bans. People in the Fediverse are knee jerk blockers too. Disagree with me? Blocked. Wow, now everyone agrees with me, so my take must be correct.
I dont see anything wrong with that.
You dont? Fucking blocked
oh no, please not that…
Yeah … I mean everyone is allowed to Taylor their experience however they want but I never block people because I never want to put myself into an echo chamber where I only ever see or hear opinions I already agree with.
People arent at the best on anonymous internet forums. While I believe in free speech, I dont believe I am required to sit around and lend them my ear if they have proven themselves to be terrible. That being said, I dont ban right away, I make sure first. I dont feel bad about that at all-- I think it cuts down on slapfights. No one likes slapfights.
good for you I want an echo chamber, listening to stupid mfs opinions for the last 10 years has done me no favors, the type of mf that I dont want to talk to is the one who refuses growth and doesnt change their mind off new information, instead they double down on their beliefs because of whatever stupid reason
See the difference between us is that because I never block anyone I might hear or see a perspective or idea I’ve never considered before and I might take stock of my current position and change. Whereas with your method you are cutting off that chance and then just locking in on your current stances assuming they are currently correct and will always be correct forever which I find to be an idiotic stance to have.
I can admit that all of my positions might not be perfect because I still haven’t thought about every single thing or learned every single thing there is to learn. It is illogical to assume that I already know everything and no longer need to consider anything else.
I don’t know about you but my political stances have changed over the years. Certain from a young kid to my teen years. And again from my teens to my young adult years. And yet again as I have gotten older. I am sure they will continue to shift and grow as I grow as a a person.
I research my opinions, I dont base them off conversations with strangers on the internet who all have their own agendas. Republicans are not changing their minds and arent open to new opinions unless the source is one of their own and even then theyll turn on them it its too far from what they know.
The whole image seems made to be satirical. We’re all in our own bubbles so for anyone to judge another person for the same thing is a wild take.
I don’t mind being in a bubble here cause it is safe and nice to be among like-minded people, but at least I am aware I am in a bubble.
The difference is the immense filters reddit use to ban people, now it’s even a new account or a simple comment is a potential shadowban, aside from the right leaning of the site because of musk. I was visiting the shadowban sub, and majority of the people are just getting straight up banned, for creating an account or accidentally using a vpn
Most of the people I’ve seen on Lemmy do not react particularly well whenever the conversation of it being an echo chamber or a bubble comes up. I would say that most are either blind to it are in denial about it at the very least.
Maybe not everyone agrees with me that this is a bubble, but at least I feel like I am with like minded people and can be pretty sure that what I consider to be hateful shit will be downvoted, and I’m happy being in a space like that.
At the same time, I don’t really blame people that don’t realize they’re in an echo chamber (whether here or on Reddit or anywhere), it’s just social media working as intended.
True, but it also reminds us what happens when someone on Lemmy gets downvoted, reported and banned for having their own valud standpoint, which is not accepted by the majority of us.
We should keep in mind that we are prone to making the same mistake.
We are, but at the same time having parallel communities helps with that
!world@lemmy.world mods are regularly featured in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which leads more and more people to alternatives like !world@quokk.au
We are, but at the same time having parallel communities helps with that
Does it though? Seems to me that we just end up with two echo chamber communities where there’s no cross pollination of ideas and no challenges to our viewpoints. It’s good that people still have a place to interact but self segregation along ideological lines isn’t healthy for anyone over the long term.
As an example it’s why I’m still subscribed to communities over on .ml. They challenge my base reality and expose me to viewpoints that I wouldn’t consider on my own.
As an example it’s why I’m still subscribed to communities over on .ml. They challenge my base reality and expose me to viewpoints that I wouldn’t consider on my own.
So it’s working?
I wouldn’t call .ml and hexbear or similar as broadening your horizon, it’s a very insular community that does not allow dissent. And often resemble their conservative counterparts.
So it’s working?
How so? I’m having to go out of my way to find and engage with people who have alternate viewpoints & lifestyles because they tend to get pushed out of / banned from “regular” communities. That’s the exact problem being discussed here.
In the broader context of the meme itself people start thinking they are in the majority because they are participating in online communities that have been carefully curated over time to silence anyone who disagrees.
In what way do you have to ‘go out of your way’ to interact with ml or hex?
Are… they not federated with your instance?
If yes, they’re not federated, then you did that to yourself, by joining an instance that doesn’t show their posts and communities to you.
If no, they are federated… then just sort set your feed from local to global, and you’ll see their posts in their communities pop up.
… The entire point of the federation model is to allow each user to determine … basically how much of a bubble they want to be in.
You may determine a whole instance is full of nutcases in a bubble, and avoid them… or you may not think that, and retain the ability to interact with them.
Generally speaking… you can pretty much join whatever instance you want, and in so doing, you are accepting the instances that are federated with your own instance, and rejecting the instances your instance admins have defederated from.
You can always join (or even create) a different instance that federates in a way more aligned with your values.
People say that but if you’re not a tech bro good fucking luck figuring out how the hell to create an instance.
Piefed has a feature where there are collection of communities, so you dont have to chose if you dont want to. Its very nice: https://piefed.social/topic/tech
Pifed is amazing besides the lack of apps.
Lmao it’s like the ancient https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaCourt/ except real, i love it
Enjoy, lot of things happening there
I wonder what percentage of your comments are about pushing people off of LW.
LW mods generally don’t have more than one major community. It’s not a rule, but we have made a bit of an effort to avoid reddit-style supermods.
- !lemmyworld@lemmy.world
- !homeimprovement@lemmy.world : https://lemmy.zip/post/35932658
- !books@lemmy.world : https://lemmy.zip/post/36097431?scrollToComments=true
- !support@lemmy.world :
But yeah, sure, keep pushing an agenda while !world@lemmy.world is featured in YPTB every week:
don’t have more than one major community.
Same mod on
- world@lemmy.world: 17.8K users / month
- politics@lemmy.world: 16.5K users / month
So what? At least they’re not tankies.
You realize that is a textbook ‘whataboutism’, right?
I think that is their main feature. To cut off the fringes of leftism and socialist ideas so it has a nice round and smooth bottom
Framing the Overton Window.
A feature for some, an anti-feature for others.
Happened to a ton of trans people on .blahaj
The 196 community didn’t like the rule that forced them to repsect a troll that was using the gender “dragonfucker” to mock and invalidate real gender identities and sexualities.
Instead of banning a single troll they banned dozens of users off the most popular community on blahaj and triggered the community to make a 196 community on .world
triggered the community to make a 196 community on .world
Triggered the mods to try to move the community to .world without even asking the community members first
I am still convinced ‘Drag’ legitimately has dissociative identity disorder and isn’t a troll in the sense of … ‘i am in full control of my faculties and choose to act as caricature to
sewsow chaos’…But yeah, that whole… thing… was fucking bonkers.
In many ways Lemmy is so much worse the echo chamber than Reddit ever was.
A leftist/socialist/communist/Linux echo chamber is always better than a liberal one.
@ me
Have you been in reddit lately, not even close
That happened to some people in a community I used to run then I moved it to !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com where the rules are different. We are decentralised so if people get censored in one place they can move to another. The fediverse is a true embodiment of freedom and the marketplace of ideas.
I’m banned from about 180 subs because a mod here decided he didn’t like my version of reality.
Everytime I post and I’m told I’m banned from whatever community I never posted in before I block that sub.
Why would I want any part of a sub that blindly and aggressively censors opinions they don’t agree with? That would be stupid, so I leave them to their bubble
What’s your version of reality?
Lemmy and any social media platform that bans or censors because the post or comment contradicts the majority is wrong. By majority I mean those using that specific social media platform. In many cases that majority opinion is actually NOT the majority opinion of society as a whole.
If you are looking for closed communities like conservatives and ml then yea they don’t allow much disagreement against them. They are there because reddit banned them at some point for the same thing
In many cases on social media the “majority” opinion is crafted by external entities.
Except for Luigi. They couldn’t control that one.
Nah, we ban fascists cause fascists are asshole losers who only want to be taken seriously.
Lemmy taught me a fascist is just anyone we disagree with
I got called a fascist for saying genocide against Jews is just as bad as genocide against Palestinians. Apparently it’s fascist now to be against fascist things
EDIT: For proof, see downvotes on this comment. I genuinely can’t tell you which platform is more unhinged, this or reddit. Both are special places for special people
Wording matters. In the face of countless ‘both sides’ rhetoric, this can be interpreted as ‘equal harm is presently being done to Israelis and Palestinians’.
Wording does matter, but so does personal responsibility to digest those words and understand what is attempted to be communicated, not just recognizing a pattern and turning your brain off the second you see think you see a pattern
3 downvotes proves nothing
I imagine you yelling this into a chamber and literally listening for the echo.
Imagine he got banned from reddit for saying the same thing, trolling and spamming
The reddit sub teachers had a post recently where a mod was bragging about banning anyone who questioned the post. They were being bombarded with approving comments. Why bother with the post then? It is basically masturbation at that point. “Ooooh, I feel better now! I didn’t get even slightly challenged. Next post…”
Always underestimate how many morons are outside the bubble.
