I’m trans and I really don’t want to federated with these people if their mods are defending the -tard suffix and they aren’t getting de-modded and banned. I also don’t want to be federated with them if they ban critiquing western chauvinism.

Someone who is an admin and with more of a level head than me RN please talk to their admins about it.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    100%. The only reason to stick with a shitty Reddit clone instead of just going back to Reddit is because you can’t use Reddit. “Can’t use Reddit” isn’t a technical limitation but a social and political one. The main people who will actually stick with Lemmy are:

    1. Socialists

    2. Unhinged fascists (cryptofascists are okay on Reddit)

    3. People who engage in illegal shit (piracy, shoplifting, drug dealing, pedo shit)

    You can use this to predict whether an instance will completely stagnate and how fast an instance will become fascist. Beehaw are shriveling into irrelevance because they shut the door for all three. Lemmy.world will become fascist because they defed from 1 and 3. And once Blahaj shut the door on us, the chaser infestation in their community will only grow stronger, and their instance will eventually fall to unhinged fascists as their instance rots from within.

    • CriticalResist8 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I see the critical point somewhere else. It’s just not very fun managing an instance that gets bigger without getting anything in return. Especially once you establish values like freedom of speech and opinion and claim everyone is welcome to make an account, until people you don’t want on your instance start joining. And that’s when it spirals out of control, you start banning them because they make your experience as an admin worse, but then your users are not actually beholden to your relatively tiny instance and can go anywhere else. You’re not Reddit where all the stuff happens, you’re a lemmy instance and there’s others right there.

      Places like beehaw and lemmy world are now getting a lot of donations and maybe they’ll start paying themselves with it as a side hustle, so we’ll see. The reason places like lemmygrad and hexbear are fun to browse is because we’re generally all in agreement. I don’t mean that we don’t disagree and form an echo chamber, but that we don’t have to explain basic etiquette and generally don’t flame and troll each other over nothing.

      If you’ve been on Reddit you’ll remember the dread you felt when receiving that little orange notification in your inbox.