I’ve not been here long, but I’m curious how users who were present before the reddit drama feel about any potential changes to the content and tone of discussions.

  • ██████████@lemmy.world
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    Yes it’s full of liberals now this used to be a leftist safe zone. Soon they will be mods and any dissent will result in permant ban

    Edit: libs proved me right so fast check those salty replies bet they even Reported me. Healthy discussion involved some heat love y’all

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      What? The whole point of Lemmy is to be defederated. A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

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        A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

        The leftist safe zone is and always was a lie, anyway. They’re just fascists LARPing as a communist vanguard.

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          Vanguard ideology is the weakest point of Leninism. It always attracts those seeking power. But there’s nothing stopping a leftist group from owning a lemmy instance and banning everyone that disagrees with their flavor of leftism.

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          I wasn’t gonna start a fight here though lol. The entire place was infested with tankies. The dude I responded to is probably a tankie.

          I laughed when the complaint was liberals invading Lemmy lmao.

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    • BigFig@lemmy.world
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      ALSO would your solution be ONLY leftist mods, would they be any more or less likely to quash dissent and perma ban whatever they don’t like?

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        My experience is that most extremely ideologically driven communities tend to devolve into the same heavy-handed moderation tactics. I think this happens because it’s easier to imagine that the ends justify the means, and because small minority communities that are far from the larger consensus viewpoints are going to have issues with relatively large number of outside users coming in and wanting to debate or denigrate the fringe ideology.

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        Well, yeah?

        Why would we want to be here when it was only a bunch of douches role playing as Stalin?

        Like I remember visiting when CTH left reddit and Lemmy has certainly come along way in having a functioning user base these past few weeks.

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            What does “here” refer to? You’re on Lemmy.world, your instance has never been a “leftist space” afaik.

            Lemmy is software, not a “space”. The network is ActivityPub, also not known for being “leftist”.

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            Because it’s not a “leftist space.” It’s a federated Web platform with many communities. If any of you identipols want a safe space go setup some password protected forum somewhere.