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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (49 children)

Okay, and? The whole point of the fediverse is that everyone gets a voice. It's good to see more people adopting it too, even conservatives. It'll be less of an echo chamber that way.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    And then in a couple years lemmy goes the way of reddit and suddenly were flooded with right wing bots and bad actors spamming lemmy with misinformstion and hate and they scream and cry whenever you try to do anything about it.

    Leftists deserve our own space on the internet.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Do you realize Reddit is a monolith platform and not defederated? The things happening to Reddit and other centralized platforms is exactly the reason why Fediverse exist in the first place. Those problems are what Fediverse is designed to solve. It's surprising to see people considering Lemmy as some kind of leftwing alternative to Reddit. It's not.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Leftists deserve our own space on the internet.

    That's not what the fediverse is for. The fediverse isn't to be your own personal haven. However, you can use the fediverse to make a leftist instance and defederate/ban right wingers as you please.

    I haven't been on Reddit since the API fallout, but I rarely ever saw right wingers, nevermind bots.

    Some of these platforms (notably xitter) have algorithms to farm rage

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh you saw bots, they were everywhere. You just didnt realize you were interacting with bots. At least once a week I found a bot account trying to steer conversations on reddit.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago

    What I do remember was being banned from half the subs because I posted a pro vaccine comment in the nonewnormal sub. And it wasn't conservative subs that were banning me. It was usually leftist, slightly leftist or even completely apolotical subs with leftist moderation. And then they broadened their ban list to include pro life subreddits and anti-pitbull activism subreddits as well.

    I did not get an impression that it was a right-wing site.

    Twitter always was a cesspit as well, even before Elon. It was filled with leftist dreamSMP and k-pop stans who'd doxx you over misnaming a haircut in Animal Crossing. When elon bought it, it just turned into a right wing cesspit. A cesspit is still a cesspit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I haven't been on Reddit since the API fallout, but I rarely ever saw right wingers, nevermind bots.

    That says more about you than about the site lol

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My honest reaction exactly, and I have to say I feel like just being on lemmy for a little bit it does feel like a bit of a left wing eco chamber, which isn't necessarily that bad and it makes sense due to alot of left wing people migrating from twitter and the likes, idk it's just something I've noticed and wanted to mention

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Yeah. I don't usually mind either too much. I think there is a problem when you have the likes of !christianity@lemmy.world being downvote brigaded to the point that it actually is unfairly balancing the posts due to the slim minority of Christians on here. Most lefties I find on here are cool, though. Just a slim minority of them, like the ones who get offended at you saying "bro"

    Also, having a Trumpet on lemmy is infinitely better than the loli porn instances

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    think there is a problem when you have the likes of !christianity@lemmy.world being downvote brigaded to the point that it actually is unfairly balancing the posts due to the slim minority of Christians on here.

    Are you and the other mods aware that you can see who downvotes, and potentially ban systematic downvoters? That's a topic that is regularly debated, but I guess in your case it could be useful?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A perfectly valid point. We always have to protect ourselves from the barbarians at the gate anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If particular instances like blahaj.zone or beehaw wish to defederate them, that makes sense. But if they aren't botting/spamming or doing things that are illegal, I don't see a point in defederating.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    or doing things that are illegal, I don’t see a point in defederating

    How about when they are pushing the right to exist for marginalized groups? Or promoting forced relocations of people, without due process?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    If defined correctly, that's bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Conservatives are all ok with it, and promoting it. Its a core tenet.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    In what way? One's person "deportation to protect a nation's sovereign borders and rule of law" is another's "forced relocation." But at the same time, one's ethnic cleansing could be to another "deportation". To some people, a marginalised group is due to an inherent minority. Another person's marginalised group would be economic class or a traditionally suppressed group such as women. (Even then to some people, they'd claim women being expected to work instead of spending time with their families is evil corporate capitalist slavery)

    You'd need specific examples.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    No, the whole point of the fediverse is to combat censorship from fascists.

    Inviting them over there is NOT good. It'll show more pro-fascist views and fool gullible people. And the more fascist instances there are, the harder to kick those out.

    "Echo chambers" don't exist except on fascist forums.

    You're saying you support it turning into a Nazi bar. If you want one, then go there, instead of being on Lemmy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    No, the whole point of the fediverse is to evade censorship from fascists.

    “Echo chambers” don’t exist except on fascist forums.

    All i see here is echo chambers because of lack of diversity. Do you think these crazies will respect freedom when they will get power in real life? These people hate "enemy" so much that they get pleasure from inflicting pain in them & will break law if it mean they are punishing the enemy. I joined here last week, rarely saw civil discussion or diversity in opinions.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's to combat censorship. How will having ""fascists"" on the fediverse start putting in place censorship?

    Inviting them over there is NOT good. It'll show more pro-fascist views and fool gullible people. And the more fascist instances there are, the harder to kick those out.

    It sounds like you're the one wanting to enforce censorship?

    You're saying you support it turning into a Nazi bar. If you want one, then go there, instead of being on Lemmy.

    I'm not talking about nazis or fascists. You were the first to mention them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It’ll be less of an echo chamber that way.

    It'll be defederated and just create new echo chambers.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Not everyone kneejerks defederation in this case. A lot of places just defed csam

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    And what is that acronym stand for? There is no "kneejerk" when collective defederation, save for outright removing the instance, is the only sane method of kicking out fascists.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    CSAM = child sexual abuse material

    I'm not talking about fascists either. Why do americans always jump to conclusions

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    ’m not talking about fascists either.

    You're talking about conservatives, who are fascists in sheep's clothing.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Never knew I was a fascist in sheep's clothing.

    You lot really don't get out much

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You'd be better asking people their opinions on issues before sticking on labels over one issue.

    I call myself a conservative because I support the structure of the institution of where I reside- The United Kingdom. I support the conservation of our constitutional monarchy and unitary parliamentary democracy. I support the four nations of the United Kingdom being in such a union. I support the conservation of the NHS. I support traditional values of: God first, family second, community/country third and corporate obligations fourth.

    However, I also support the Kingdom being open and accepting to those who want to work and reside here that will benefit the country in some way and not cause hindrance to others, as well as helping those fleeing to safety. I believe we are created in God's image and hatred based on ethnicity/race is wrong. I believe we are all sinners and thus shouldn't see ourselves as better than each other. I believe in feeding those who cannot support themselves and uplifting those who need help. These are all stemmed in my conservative religious faith and belief.

    Does this make me a fascist?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well this instance has already been heavily defederated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do we know who defederated them?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Piefed.social has. I imagine blahaj and dbzer0 and many left-leaning instances.

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