they’re too stupid to figure out lemmy
Please let's not introduce elitism into Lemmy. I just got here and stumbled upon this post. The social network you use does not make you superior. As much as I agree with anti-racist censorship, there is no need to speak as if Lemmy users are superior beings. It was annoying when Redditors did it back in the day and it will continue to be now.
Elitism aside, having a barrier to entry is better in my opinion.
I don't know how old you are but there was a time from the mid-90s to the mid-2000s where in my opinion the Internet, in its infancy, was at its greatest... and these federated services remind me of those times.
This time before corporations ran the Internet and every moron had access to it at their fingertips. It was a time when it took real effort to get online, and so the entirety of the Internet consisted of enthusiasts and small fragmented communities. It was beautiful looking back at what it once was and how organic it was, and sad to see what it has become now.
Now the Internet is ruled by corporations mining data, and every moron under the sun happily giving it away for the next dopamine hit engineered to keep them online longer. Companies using this data to manipulate specific demographics and eventually larger swathes of society to do whatever they want... no thanks, I'd rather not be a part of that circus.
I'd rather the barrier to entry be higher, in my opinion, it increases the signal to noise ratio... which is at an all time low on most other social media sites.
Exactly this.
As an analogy, I personally think the Linux desktop is better than Windows but I don't think desktop Linux users are inherently better than Windows users.
Sure, desktop Linux users are probably more tech savvy on average but they are probably also more likely to be less socially capable imo. (like me)
"I use Arch by the way"
(I kid, I kid... I use garuda)
Pleb. I use Gentoo.
(Fedora, actually.)
Pleb. I use NixOS.
(Arch ~~btw~~ actually)
+1 for NixOS
I actually use gentoo and I love y’all
I mean more as "if you can't look past skin tone and gender, you can't probably read a sign up sheet."
Racists are idiots. The ones who learned better aren't idiots because they applied new knowledge.
Racists just regurgitate what they were told since birth, without questioning anything and doubling down.
Is Lemmy better? Remains to be seen. But if they refuse to join because we won't tolerate slurs, that's a bonus.
Quite. Remember narwhaling bacon? Never again.
s/stupid/lazy
I wish the fediverse is able to contain all the ideas, all the political positions and that disconnecting/blocking an instance is only used for behaviors like spamming. Not giving every political stance the opportunity to be a part of the same world fuels extremists.
Beehaw and other instances can kick all the users with far-right beliefs. That's fair. But Lemmy users shouldn't be blocked to listen to or even interact with them, in their own instances, if they wanted. Don't help creating political ghettos.
I'm not super over how the fediverse works mechanically; I was under the impression that users could create their own instances and interact with who they choose to?
I think Lemmy is too political, but still joined a long time ago. Things can improve with time. We're seeing this happen now.
I'm glad that Beehaw doesn't do it, but the other instances shouldn't be federating the Tankies.
Authoritarian, genocide-denial, Stalin-praising politics have no place on the left.
Yeah I've been going back and forth between this one and lemmy.ml and a recent thread on Ukraine made really really appreciate that beehaw has that instance blocked
Personally I'm not sure I consider tankies leftists. Although communism is a leftists ideal, it's based on the premise of people being equal and deserving of basic needs. Tankies often embrace misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and authoritarianism and deny or even support injustices against other humans. Not very leftist of them imo
claims he isn’t far right
Right-wing extremists do this to make it seem like their position is widely held and "normal." The worst extreme right-wing party we have here in Finland (Valta kuuluu kansalle or "Power Belongs to the People", aka Valta kuuluu Kremlille or "Power Belongs to the Kremlin") claims to be center right. The head of the party is a pro-Russia flat earther who doesn't believe in climate change, and the party is staunchly anti-immigration
Performative Overton acrobatics.
What's funny is there is nothing stopping them from making their own instance. I think the hesitation stems from them coming to grips with reality that few people really want to engage with their messaging when they step out of their bubble.
Because they can't make people who don't agree with them miserable if they're all relegated to their own bubbles.
One of the funny events on Mastodon was that someone set up an instance that was far right and almost within a few hours, all the other instances had de-federated from it and blocked it
No-one was stopping them setting up their own instance but they all said "you don't play well with others so go play on your own!"
That's how a healthy society should be. Bigotry is always a minority of society. The media has been inflating its perceived reality to attract more people away from criticizing the current economical system. Fashism 2.0.
As Buenaventura Durruti said:
"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."
Yes. This is a different platform, I'd rather we don't just transplant all the reddit problems here.
Lemmy is inherently political. It was and is a revolt against reddit's staff, their business model and the influence of US politics, media and corporations on their platform due to their advertising model. This place wouldn't exist if there wasn't political differences.
We're not here to impress people who were banned for spreading Nazism. Go to all the reddit-clones that started in the early 2010s when reddit got called out for hosting toxic racist-or-fascist hate communities and communities sexualizing minors (e.g. /r/jailbait).
Exactly. I'm not exactly hiding my politics.
If anything, I'm glad being open about it means that a lot of bigots aren't going to use lemmy in the first place. A natural filter to keep the transphobes and McCarthyites elsewhere.
Yes, exactly. If we can have the equivalent of Reddit without the bigots, it's a big plus. Tired as a trans woman to go on r/Gaming and see transphobic comments
Everything is inherently political. If anyone thinks it isn't, it's just because the politics favour them.
This is true, politics is not something distinct which can be considered separate from or optionally added to society, culture or economics, although Lemmy is also explicitly political. That might be more what I intended to say.
(The real kicker is realizing that abstaining is not politically neutral.)
Yeah, I think 2020 made a lot of "neutral" people realize that not taking a stand on certain things is picking a side, so to speak, on certain issues.
What does political even mean here? I guess the usual "Don't be racist, don't be homophobic, don't be transphobic etc." I really don't see much real political topics in my frontpage (local and all).
Yeah, I told a guy today his hate of communism was totally his own prerogative, but he might want to put it aside to make a unified front against the impending Reddit changes. He flipped out on me and called me some choice words. Just another day on Reddit I guess.
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