It’s not like Lemmy is different in any way, lol.
Yeah I came across lemmy Because I was told that this place believes in free speech even if it’s something you don’t agree with. That is not true though because I’ve had mods delete my comments lol.
Yeah, it’s the same shit.
Dude this is just as bad as Reddit, The same Donald Trump being a Nazi rhetoric, I got my comment deleted that says “Hamas sucks” While somebody else’s comment says they are heroes. This website is trash and quite frankly I think Reddit might be a little better
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
The reddit sub teachers had a post recently where a mod was bragging about banning anyone who questioned the post. They were being bombarded with approving comments. Why bother with the post then? It is basically masturbation at that point. “Ooooh, I feel better now! I didn’t get even slightly challenged. Next post…”
Always underestimate how many morons are outside the bubble.
I wouldn’t say Lemmy is much better though… It’s just Reddit but not on Reddit.
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.
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!
It has a similar problem, but a better version of it.
From my point of view, Lemmy creates its bubble just by being friendly to one subset of views and hostile to another; and so people with some subsets of views don’t feel welcome - and they leave. This creates a kind of bubble effect; but I’m ok with that - because frankly there are some views that I really don’t want to see here anyway. Having diversity of views is good, but establishing social norms about what is acceptable or unacceptable isn’t necessarily a bad thing either.
On the other hand Reddit (in addition to the above effect) also has a big dose of top-down enforcement. Effectively it has a small hidden group of people who can control what everyone else is allowed to say. They can ban certain words and sentiments; and use techniques like shadowbanning or just algorithmic demoting to reduce the influence of stuff they don’t like. So they get a bubble as well, but the bubble can be guided and influenced by the people who control the platform. For my point of view, that makes it worse.
Lemmy.ml bans you for shit and giggles, basically if you don’t agree that murdering dictators are the future, you will very likely be banned. If you’re new to Lemmy and happen to stumble upon .ml first (and are not a red fascist), you’ll get the same treatment.
Lemmy.ml is still a big instance, so chances of this happening are pretty high.
Can agree with this. Don’t disagree with the Israelis. You will get at least a temp ban.
I read that as “murdering dictators is the future” and was like… I’m not all caught up on .ml, but I didn’t think they’d be down with murdering dictators. Then I realized I read it wrong.
Changed it to murderous to avoid confusion, it did read a little weird.
Lemmy users are not better… but Lemmy is.
Apt
install
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.
That’s literally all of the Internet, not just Reddit. Everyone putting themselves in echo chambers and tuning everything else out. Modern Internet is just people wanting to be told they’re right and be showered with worthless affirmations.
I disagree.
Well, you’re wrong. And this is the internet, and you’re not allowed to be wrong, so…
Powerful reddit energy in this post
Reddit is just edgy self aware facebook.
I’m 14 and this is deep.
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?
Right isn’t welcome here at all. I’m center and this place is hostile as fuck.
Honestly I think that isn’t an issue with any one platform so much as it is one of the biggest successes of the extreme right. By being obnoxiously loud, openly self contradictory and everywhere in the media the extreme right has succesfully portrayed themselves as being representative of the entire right wing. This leaves the moderate right isolated, less likely to co-operate with the centre or left on issues where they might agree, and more likely to embrace the extreme right.
TLDR: Firehose of falsehood works even better when it splashes on the guy next to you.
The issues the right care about are Haitians eating cats and dogs. How do you not call them idiots?
Don’t forget that also being anti woke for whatever reason is really important.
Which basically is just a codeword that just means they think they can bully anyone they disagree with to make them fall in line
And they’re always the victim of course
There aren’t Lemmy groups where left, right, OR center can do that
I don’t know of any place people can discuss issues without name calling.
Of course you don’t, you shoe.
Moccasin behaviour, fr.
We’re a smaller chamber but a lot more echo.
We’re a smaller chamber but a lot more echo.
echo…echo
And by choice. Uh, a user has a different opinion than me by about 2 %? BLOCKED FOR LIVE MOTHRFUCKER
Removed by mod
Nah, we ban fascists cause fascists are asshole losers who only want to be taken seriously.
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
3 downvotes proves nothing
Wording matters. In the face of countless ‘both sides’ rhetoric, this can be interpreted as ‘equal harm is presently being done to Israelis and Palestinians’.
Wording does matter, but so does personal responsibility to digest those words and understand what is attempted to be communicated, not just recognizing a pattern and turning your brain off the second you see think you see a pattern
I imagine you yelling this into a chamber and literally listening for the echo.
Imagine he got banned from reddit for saying the same thing, trolling and spamming
It sure is too bad the communities on the Fediverse aren’t acting in a meaningfully different way…
Meanwhile lemmy appears to self select Linux users
I assume they’re just making more noise.
That’s because our fans are going full speed because of bad Linux drivers. We have to be loud to hear ourselves over them.
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?
Is there any instance that has a poll for Linux questions for the registration yet? If there isn’t I would be surprised.
