I am a conservative. Scratch that, fuck labels.
I’m a dude who thinks all guns should be legal, I don’t care if you’re lgbt or if you smoke weed, I think illegal immigrants should be deported, and abortion is murder.
When I first heard about lemmy, I thought it was a good idea. Reddit was and still is a bad place, for probably all the same reasons you guys think it’s a bad place.
It’s decentralized! That way if you get bad admins or even just a bad mod team, you can just fuck off to the next instance.
So like many, I made an account on the largest instance, lemmy.world. And being me, I found the conservative community there to be dead. So I figured I would revive it a bit, and started posting.
Unfortunately, another user took issue with that, and every time I would post something, he’d post soon after, and bury my post. This happened time and time again. I would report it and nothing would be done. The sub had basically been abandoned.
So I decided that I might as well do it myself. And I created conservative on lemm.ee, a place where conservatives could post, and everyone could comment about it.
I had a plan of action, I’d post once or twice a day. I didn’t want to overwhelm anything, just keep it steady, invite conversation, and try to help add to lemmy.
Well it didn’t go well. We had more than our share of trolls, and I didn’t want to be a power mod. So I failed to do my job. I rarely banned people and when I did, I gave out short bans, and then they’d just either come back, or create an alt and do it again.
Notably, there was one user that for some dumb reason, I decided that if I perma banned him, I was a power tripping mod. So I didn’t, and I regret it.
One memorable incident was when I happened to know about the most popular hentai site in North America, and so a user made it his life goal to follow me around and harass me for the sin of knowing about the most popular hentai site in North America, constantly calling me a pedophile. Of course I reported him, but he kept making alt accounts to get around bans and blocks.
My biggest mistake was the namecalling ban, which got me banned from most of lemmy. I still stand by the intent, if not the specific rule. It should’ve been more generic, a rule against namecalling, and not a simple term ban.
I had two mods, both of them great. I really appreciated you guys, even I never said it directly.
Over time, I slowly lost any wish to continue. Then I had a major life event, negative, and I left a couple weeks later.
Now lemm.ee is shutting down, and I found about it via reddit.
I’m not sure what happened, why I’m not a mod nor is wintermute, and why my community appears to be yet another left wing community, but it doesn’t matter.
And now here I am, posting about my experience here.
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I’m not sure what happened, why I’m not a mod nor is wintermute, and why my community appears to be yet another left wing community, but it doesn’t matter.
It was the Nazi salute valentines day post that stayed up for days. The admins stepped in when they hadn’t received a single report from their most controversial community. Because the comm’s mods “handled” reports too quickly for anybody else to know there was a Nazi support problem happening here.
You can play dumb, but some of us remember.
I wasn’t around when that happened. How would I know?
ill bite
I think illegal immigrants
do you think legal immigrants should be deported? do you think politicians (of any party) should be held accountable for literally breaking the law?
is there any threshold of democracy demolishing that would garner a negative opinion from you?
democrats are happy to prosecute their own when laws are broken. republicans circle the wagons, defending pedophiles and grifters as long as there is an R behind them. can you comment to that fact?
why is there only a single party that wants less people to vote while all others want everyone to vote? isnt this supposed to be a representative democracy?
i think a lot would find you disingenuous because that is the nature of the conservative party. every accusation is an admission of guilt. they have no stomach for actual journalism. litereally dismantling the programs and agencies that prevent corruption. how do you defend that? how can anyone on lemmy not look at you oddly?
the deafening silence is indicative of the narcissism inherent in the party. its all about them and they dont have to explain why they vote a felonious pedophile as president other than “my guns” and “I’m anti abortion so everyone should bow to my morality”
they are the party of cowards because they cant even hold themselves accountable for their own actions.
but yeah, conservatives need a safe space to be snowflakes
I’ve realized that not everything is worth responding to, especially on Lemmy. Why bother? It’s not like it matters. That’s why the “deafening silence”. What more is there to say that hasn’t been a thousand times?
exactly. you cant defend your positions, or lack thereof.
Just search the modlogs for BlameMeta (both world and lemm.ee) and you’ll see why they’re here playing the victim.
I’m glad you tried out the threadverse, as it is always worthwhile to take your destiny into your hands by setting up your own comm to discuss a topic freely. It can happen sometimes where the instance’s culture, laws and/or users conflict with the purpose of the comm, I usually take notes and set up shop elsewhere if the conditions are better. Not to mention the drama on the fediverse can really hurt as It feels more personal with all the transparency involved. You have to block and reduce contact from the problematic individuals to make things more manageable. It is a learning experience worth engaging with.
If you want to continue with Lemmy I would suggest finding a more conservative bloc of instances to be and maybe setup your own to connect with them one day. A good way to look for one is by checking Lemmy Explorer and reading the name and rules of each instance to determine which one would one would be the best fit.
Good luck in your community building journey!
Thank you! It’s definitely been a bit of an adventure, for better or for worse. But tbh, I missed all the niche subs on reddit, and there’s no real equivalents here. Maybe one day, when lemmy is bigger and more normal people have shown up, I’ll come back.
I’m not sure what happened, why I’m not a mod nor is wintermute, and why my community appears to be yet another left wing community, but it doesn’t matter.
That is because you abandoned the community and someone came along to make it better.
Is it better? It looks abandoned by the new mod, and it looks like a copy of all the other lefty political subs. In any case, it doesn’t really matter.
Is it better?
It isn’t full of shit conservative takes, so that is an improvement.
Read the stickied post.
Last post before that was from a month before that. So I’d consider that abandoned, or at least in the process. But as I said, it doesn’t matter.
Anyways BlameMeta it’s been… well enjoy Reddit I guess.
Yeah. Enjoy lemmy.
“I’m a dude who thinks all guns should be legal, I don’t care if you’re lgbt or if you smoke weed, I think illegal immigrants should be deported, and abortion is murder.”
Had me in the first half!
why is abortion murder? is murder wrong? then why are we killing animals in food stocks or in wild for fun?
ye idk when you say abortion is murder or wrong. well everyone have theyre % to murder, if i would say aborition is murder, i would also saying not useing all your money to help people in war or similar stuff is also murder :P
TLDR: If you want more traction for your new community, don’t spam fifty posts all at once. Post one or two posts a day, and keep it going for a while.
