I mean, it’s really no different on here. Giant echo chambers.
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?
We’re a smaller chamber but a lot more echo.
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According to the investor page from Reddit, they have 100 million unique users. Kicking a few hundred here and there doesn’t have an impact on that number. At that point individual users are worthless to the firm.
Ironic how they refered to their rule #1 “Remember the human”, when I got permabanned for litterly nothing.
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
I just saw you replied to me in political memes, can’t comment back tho.
Apparently saying “you might want to brush up on history” is uncivil.
Using the term Blue MAGA is trolling.
And then the mods used the Lemmy modlog as an excuse to ban me.
Jeez these libs.Yes I got banned from commenting on another sub on here Because I said Hamas are terrorist. Mind you the person that replied to me said That they are heroes. Lemmy Is just as bad as Reddit and again I only came on this app because I was told that it had free speech
I wouldn’t say Lemmy is much better though… It’s just Reddit but not on Reddit.
Lemmy users are not better… but Lemmy is.
Apt
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.
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.
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.
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
In many ways Lemmy is so much worse the echo chamber than Reddit ever was.
Have you been in reddit lately, not even close
A leftist/socialist/communist/Linux echo chamber is always better than a liberal one.
@ me
That happened to some people in a community I used to run then I moved it to [email protected] 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.
We are, but at the same time having parallel communities helps with that
[email protected] mods are regularly featured in [email protected] , which leads more and more people to alternatives like [email protected]
Lmao it’s like the ancient https://www.reddit.com/r/KarmaCourt/ except real, i love it
Enjoy, lot of things happening there
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?
You can always join (or even create) a different instance that federates in a way more aligned with your values.
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.
- [email protected]
- [email protected] : https://lemmy.zip/post/35932658
- [email protected] : https://lemmy.zip/post/36097431?scrollToComments=true
- [email protected] :
But yeah, sure, keep pushing an agenda while [email protected] is featured in YPTB every week:
don’t have more than one major community.
Same mod on
- [email protected]: 17.8K users / month
- [email protected]: 16.5K users / month
So what? At least they’re not tankies.
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.
You realize that is a textbook ‘whataboutism’, right?
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
Yeah instead we just defederate them
Lol, tell that to the hexbear and .ml servers. My God, they’re worse than anything reddit ever did.
What could be worse than rampant racism and child porn?
Tankies, yeah, it’s definitely tankies!
Well I’ve never been harassed, doxxed, and threatened to be murdered by racists or pedophiles simply because I disagree with them. Only tankies and fascists would do that.
You haven’t ever been doxxed period, and racists have harassed killed and doxxed even for minor shit, unless your definition of fascist is very liberal
Sure it was an attempted doxxing because they’re incompetent. I’m well aware of the evils on the internet and do a decent job remaining anonymous.
Tankies have killed as many people as the Nazis, actually more. Much more deaths attributed to tankies than racists could ever dream to commit.
Why are you defending tankies?
Tankies have killed as many people as the Nazis, actually more.
Good, fuck them Nazis. Also fuck them tankies. If you’re in the fringes, you’re likely a monster. That’s not exactly a hot take, lol.
Tankies have killed as many people as the Nazis, actually more. Much more deaths attributed to tankies than racists could ever dream to commit.
I too love to make unsourced claims that minimize the evil of the Nazis.
Knowledge is power, friend.
Ah, so you’re very sneakily using inconsistent metrics to downplay the Nazis, counting every death that resulted from the policy of communists, but only counting direct and deliberate killings by Nazi Germany.
In other words, you are doing deliberate Nazi apologism.
I’m not, and I dont care who killed more people, why are you defending racists?
I’m not, all I was saying is that tankies are worse than racists.
Edit: they’re equally as evil as Nazis IMO.
Reddit nurtured /r/jailbait, r/coontown /r/rape and /r/thedonald. Just sayin’
creepshots, incels in general like that whole community, redpill, etc.
Incels were wild to watch playout (theyd get brought up in comments occasionally and id go peek), they had woman in the group originally but then they said femcels werent real, then some dudes tried hookers and even they rejected them becuase of like hygiene issues, like bro not taking a shower isnt involuntary
like bro not taking a shower isnt involuntary
Ouch 😅
I mean specifically before seeing a prostitute, be depressed at home in peace you can miss a day lol
Fatpeoplehate was also a trip to watch play out
Oh yeah, that one was unbelievably toxic. Most fascinating was that many of its posters were self-hating overweight people.
agreed
I visit .ml and while I do occasionally get cross threaded with them they are, overall, not terrible. Yes some of the people associated with their instance can be over the top but by and large they are just people with a different viewpoint.
I tried to do the same with hexbear but ultimately couldn’t, which may be my problem more than theirs.
I’m fairly left on the political spectrum, probably further than most, but hexbear and a lot of .ml are left to the max, as in they’re tankies. I can’t stand right-wingers much, but tankies are worse by a large margin.
Shit, they attempted to harass and dox me when I offered an opinion that didn’t agree with their very rigid worldview. I kept poking at their stubbornness then they banned me. I’m a stubborn SOAB myself.
Now I’m questioning if I should continue to use this platform. I’ve definitely started using it less since then, knowing that this platform is run by tankies.
being a neoliberal has nothing to do with being leftist.
I agree, I’m not a neo-lib, I’m a demsoc.
ooooo premium neolib
No dawg, you’re thinking of socdems. Which are still better than tankies.
if you think capitalism is better than leftism, you are not a leftist.
I’ve had the same experience. Hexbear won’t accept any nuance when it comes to Palestine or homeless people.
Checkout [email protected]
It’s not just people with different viewpoints, the admins are actively pushing an authoritarian agenda and censor any dissent against those views. And I have a bunch documented on that comm of the shenanigans they get up to. .ml is more subtle about things than the rest of the Tankie Triad (Hex and Grad) to avoid larger calls of defederation, but they absolutely share the same Authoritarian “ideology”
To me the Bitcoin and crypto subs were a really weird place. Like 1 in 10 are long term investors and the rest are like “lol just wasted my grandparents savings I’m done. And just 20.”
Isn’t that like wsb most of the time, they act like nothing biggie. Alot of them are rich or trolls
The futurism sub was the fucking weirdest, at least for a really popular front-page sub. Every other post in there is some kind of bizarre prayer to the machine god or something. There are literally people in there planning for how they’re going to use all their free time and wealth once they gain access to some kind of digital messiah AI that they think is going to emerge sometime in the next several years (or the last several years, they’re really loose with predictions) and when it does, it will grant them and everyone else god-like powers to play the stock market and become fabulously wealthy and immortal.
None of that is a joke. When asked about how literally everyone can become wealthy, they usually just pile on you for being “narrow minded” and make references to how a very small number of people back in the 80’s doubted the internet was going to be a big deal.
I’m all in for discarding opinions. As long as who post them can argue in a civil maner, show souces and accept objective data.
Also, “they” is currently 80% chatbots
Fuck reddit, fuck spez
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?
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.
Reddit is just edgy self aware facebook.
Powerful reddit energy in this post
Nah, we ban fascists cause fascists are asshole losers who only want to be taken seriously.
I imagine you yelling this into a chamber and literally listening for the echo.
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
3 downvotes proves nothing
