Lemmy has already been affected. It's actually worse than Reddit right now in my experience.
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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People are so fucking stupid. Liberals complain that Reddit is too conservative now. Conservatives complain that it's too liberal. Well which is it?
Its both because they pander to the popular, which is why anything thays actually useful, funny, or satirical gets banned on that site.
Like someone said below, it's the mods that are the problem.
That’s the problem with reddit
Mods have complete control of how left or right a given community is so you will always see the one you don’t like if you look for it
People are so fucking stupid. Liberals complain that Reddit is shit now because of the conservatives. Conservatives complain that it's shit because of the liberals. Well which is it?
Slightly rephrased.
They're already here, so much Nazi apologia has appeared all of a sudden.
Yeah, I have seen a few “Roman salute… throwing his heart… autistic… etc” people in the threads about Edolf Muskler’s salute.
Also seen plenty centrist democrats blame protest voters as if that had more of an effect than the democrats bending over for republicans.
Glad I am not the only one to have noticed.
Honestly, I kind of hope they do.
Every time they experience the slightest indication that their views aren't normal or reasonable, they lose a little bit of confidence and a little bit of power.
Think about the "weird" moment last summer. Walz had Republicans sputtering and whining about how they totally aren't weird at all. The best Trump could come up with was "no u!" I think, if Harris had maintained that energy, she'd have been inaugurated this week. And speaking of this week, Trump is all offended and in a tizzy because an Episcopal priest read him the words of Jesus on Tuesday.
The slightest speedbump or disfavor spins them out.
Now. What community on the internet is more disfavorable toward conservatives than Lemmy? It's nothing but speedbumps for them over here. They'd last approximately an hour and a half, and they'd see a more united resistance than they've ever imagined from corporate-owned media. Some of them might even realize that the mainstream socials are actually preferential toward them, and maybe reevaluate some opinions. For a moment, they'd see how weird they are.
Filter bubbles aren't inherently bad. But when they're holding together an odious group in a terrible shared delusion, they need to be popped. Lemmy might pop their bubble, at least a little bit.
Let them come. I pity their bar tabs.
The moderation practices on that subreddit have created an environment where dissenting opinions are swiftly and permanently banned. This approach has fostered an echo chamber where only one perspective is allowed to thrive, reinforcing a cycle of confirmation bias and groupthink. As a result, most conservative posts lack depth and often resemble oversimplified memes rather than meaningful discourse.
Even when an opposing viewpoint manages to slip through, it’s often dismissed as artificial or the work of bots. This mindset reveals how deeply entrenched their worldview has become—so much so that they struggle to believe that differing opinions could be genuine. It’s a surreal and unfortunate dynamic that stifles any chance of productive discussion.
A sure sign of their self delusion is that this sub admits "satire" posts, in what is supposed to be for discussing conservative topics.
Because leftists are not as inconsiderate as them, they have to make up imaginary stories to expel their rancor.
Indeed! Which is why they need to be shown the real world. Lemmy isn't that, but it could shock their systems into believing that /r/conservative isn't, either.
I've been aware of the fediverse since the api-lypse but have just been lurking for a good while. I really hope we manage to find a social media system that doesn't bow to censorship. We need to find a way that lets us decentralize servers to not rely on AWS.
That costs a lot of money. "Finding" that sort of thing is basically just going to involve donating a bunch of cash, on an ongoing basis.
Finding could also mean letting users share hosting responsibilities. Like making fediverse similar to torrenting.
Interesting idea. I don't know if we have a robust enough infrastructure for that right now, but it's conceptually interesting.
At first I thought you meant pitching in for the cost, but you mean more like lending cpu cycles or memory.
Oh, nice! I'm not yet banned from that subreddit!
Lets change that :D
That subreddit is an absolute dumpster fire of stupidity.
Every once in a great while the people of Reddit do the right thing and I'm proud of every one of them that took a stand. Even the BBC is calling it an awkward gesture and they aren't owned by right wing billionaires in the US. Not ONE media news org here has called the obvious. Sanewashing. Wish I'd never heard the term.
The biggest issue is that the media is focusing on just this one incident in specific. They're acting as if whether or not musk is a nazi hinges exclusively on if it was meant as a seig heil or not.
Ultimately his nazi salute is just the latest in a very very long line of racist and intolerant shit he's said, done, and perpetuated. Regardless or whether he seig heiled or not, he's still a nazi.
I will play devil's advocate. Media outlets are scared of being sued for defamation or scrutinised for what may turn out to be misleading news. That's why there are always referring to "sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity" or adopt a mild language to refer to something. But if I am a news publisher, I would describe Musk's gesture as "appears to be Nazi salute" or to that effect. It is still calling it out as it is, but I would still have plausible deniability.
I see your point ... Fear of retribution through the FCC is now a real thing. This is how it begins though - first they ban free speech and any dissent and then the ones that still stand up will be disappeared.
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Conservatism is for people who can't think for them selves. They Can't comprehend there are different needs for many different peoples. They need to be told how to live, love, and even act. Education can solve the issue but those kinds of people don't want education they want everything to be under their control their ideology.
It's the definitian of the Hobbesean "right", that human nature is monstrous, beastly and war-like, and that we need to rely on a "better few" to monopolize violence to keep everyone in order. They don't believe that people are capable of self-governance because they don't do it themselves. The Rousseau "left" believe that we're egalitarian by nature, and that we're innately good in small populations but have naturally strayed from our egalitarian origins because of civilization. Anarchists understand that both of these are incorrect.
The minor technical barrier to entry, thankfully, throttles the amount of stupid the gets into community sites and such, like Lemmy. Remember that some gatekeeping can be a good thing because even anyone can use a thing, anyone will use that thing.
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Oh they would get shit on so hard kinda would be nice to see
Who else is fully expecting Reddit admins to come out in a few days banning twitter bans, and banning anyone that tries to enforce them?
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