Update: I got banned from hexbear and grad lmao

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      As Goat has said, this platform (Lemmy) is comprised of instances, some, like Lemmy.world, are general instances, and some have a specific theme or type of content they cater to. There’s one for furry porn, one for regular porn, for example, and one for utterly insufferable Internet communists who make a point of behaving badly in other communities.

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          Sorry, but no. I’ve seen how they engage with other instances, their strategy is to dogpile on anyone who dares disagree with them, flood the thread with insults and shitty images, and generally behave like poo flinging monkeys. They don’t debate, they don’t actually make a cohesive argument for their beliefs, their entire approach is to use overwhelming force to drown out opposing voices.

          They’re a thoroughly awful group of people.

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          Except there’s evidence supplied in this community of Hexbear users organising what threads to target specifically.

          You’ve been defending tankies a lot. Why?

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      4 months ago

      The fediverse is an interconnected community composed of instances. Every website is its own instance that can communicate with other instances

      So right now I’m on sh.itjust.works, and you’re on lemmy.world.

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        4 months ago

        The Fediverse is much more than just that. You just described the Lemmy (and kbin?) part of it. The Xitter alternative Mastodon for example is another part of the Fediverse among many others.

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        the thing about hexbear isn’t just that they’re far left, but that they are violently auth-left, and live in a huge echo-chamber, as most instances defederated from them. plenty of far left people are actually very grounded and human compared to them, see slrpnk.net and the an-soc instances. while they have strong opinions, they won’t immediately wish death upon you if your views clash

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            yeah, I definitely agree there, not to mention that “authoritarian left” is self contradicting to begin with. It’s a pretty direct two-word description though, I find, and better than just calling them “tankies” which is even more vague

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            Let me rephrase, is there anywhere that isn’t a circlejerk in either direction? I came here hoping it would be like Reddit pre 2016 where most of the main subs would at least have discussion and debate in the comments and not just a bunch of people blindly agreeing with each other.

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              Tbh, no. The conservative instances immediately devolved into racism and jingoism. The rest of the instances are at least pretty far left of the population as a whole (e.g. world), terminally online leftists, or tankies.

              If you want someplace where politics don’t get mentioned in every thread, Mastodon with your own follows picked is the best choice.

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          They were a few initially but they got chased off the fediverse. I’ve found SJW is very impartial.