uh, we already went over this on another account. let me pose a question to you:
Redditors of Lemmy, why have you built a cargo cult around a set of forum rules which has produced the most annoying scenarios we’ve seen in our lives (Reddit)? why haven’t you used this as a bridge to the fediverse, and instead become overly involved with pruning your garden?
Reactionaries of lemmy, why do you hate trans people, queer people, non white people, marginalized people, oppressed people, and all people who aren’t white straight wealthy men? This is why Hexbear has defederated from all over the place, because most of the fediverse is incredibly hostile to anyone who isn’t a white straight wealthy man. And no, “just sharing ideas” and “freedom of peach” and “it’s the internet just don’t read posts you don’t like” and “censorship pushes people away” and whatever else anyone might say in defense of the rest of the fediverse are not valid excuses for harboring literal hate speech. Stop using slurs, stop rabidly defending racism and oppressive institutions, and maybe folks like you won’t get banned. It’s not a cargo cult, it’s literally just providing basic human decency.
Marxist hipsters that engage in the “you’re not as leftist as me or you haven’t read as much theory as me so your opinion is not only going to be brigaded but is also a bannable offense” is what causes me to never post shit on here.
Fuckin yep. There’s only so many times people are willing to put up with certain cadres being absolute assholes, writing huge debatebro posts about how you’re wrong about every detail and wherever you’re right you shouldn’t say it, and how you’re a reactionary anticommunist westoid before it just isn’t worth it anymore.
People who have the “correct position” have a lot of license to behave poorly here, and it sucks.
This isn’t even to touch on the feeding frenzy when someone whose home instance isn’t here isn’t exceptionally careful with everything they say.
I don’t really see this much anymore, which is maybe because everyone is genuinely too afraid of being banned to effortpost, or because the culture has changed such that it doesn’t happen anymore. I know it USED to feel like this and that actually did get me to stop posting more than once, so, I don’t disagree. Maybe give it another try though, if only because I haven’t seen it in a while
Lots of effort posting in the news mega thread still. For those scared to engage, just best the Marxist hipsters at their own game and post theory. It’s what I do lol.
I am glad that someone sort of hears me. It’s still like this as of today and IMO, it will never, ever change as long as there are people moderating this instance who believe that even a slight variation from any one of their beliefs must be resolutely banned or brigaded lest it metasticize and grow into a counter-movement.
I have to agree with this. I have some opinions that slightly deviate from the more sanguine attitudes on foreign policy I’ve seen others express here and I’ve been reluctant to voice that.
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