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Holy duck! Lemmy has become r/conservative.
I'm a leftie and can't stand tankies, but lemmy is becoming a really intolerant place. On reddit we were all united against u/spez no matter our other disagreements. Here, after only a few months we're talking about blocking instances and communities instead of just joining and viewing the ones that Interest us...
Perhaps it's time to let this experiment run its course.
Or maybe, just maybe, I grew tired of seeing genocide apologia and the defence of authoritarian governments in my feed.
Mate I've only been here like a week and I can promise you that most people here are left-wing
Edit: reddit was united with everyone hating each other lmao
I just want a news feed that doesnt constantly anger me and convince me to argue. I'd wanted to block TwoXChromosomes on reddit forever because I wasnt its target audience and got nothing out of it. So I'm personally enjoying actually getting some control over my echo chamber for once
Edit: Also, nuanced takes I disagree with? I dont block those. Its the batshit/extremist ones that I block, I dont feel they are really adding much to my life anyways
Guess what. I never saw two chromosomes unless I browsed by r/all. You have an ability to curate what you see, both here and on reddit. Blocking and defederating achieve nothing. Unless of course it's an echo chamber you want to live in.
Lmao, I like how you started off your counterpoint talking about what blocking and defederating achieve, and then end your point with "it achieves nothing" as if that erases what you just said. I'm using blocking and defederating to curate my feed. While people are entitled to their opinion, it doesnt mean their opinion is correct, nor are they entitled to have me listen to them.
That's just this community in a nutshell. A lot of people read the community header and think "anyone left of hitler is a tankie" and mistake this place as a nazi bar where they can find fellow fascists to talk with. It's the main reason I use redfash instead because nobody's mistaking that as pro-fascism like they would with the CIA-sourced 'tankie'
With all its flaws Lemmy is still lightyears better than reddit where they ban you for standing up to nazis. I mean some of the more nazi bar instances will still ban you but that doesn't prevent you from posting there, it just makes it so that instance can't see your posts, which in my mind is a good thing because it's less dealing with the downvote barraging and harassment that comes from posting something they don't like.
The mods of a certain pair of tankie instances a few months ago were talking about taking over all other instances of Lemmy while the userbases became increasingly hostile towards users who disagreed with the idea that Stalin/Lenin did nothing wrong and that China is a perfect country who can do no wrong and has never done anything bad.
People have the right to not be harassed and take action to prevent said harassment.
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