After years of reddit/twitter/facebook propping up fascism/bigotry with algorithms & bots I’m honestly surprised and relieved to be in an online space that clearly rejects their ideology.
They can have reddit/facebook/twitter. AFAIC the only way to reach some of these people is to leave them alone long enough to realize on their own.
Lemmy.world admins are doing an amazing job dealing with everything. Their recent decision to defederate from exploding heads (or whatever its called) really goes to show that they’re in it for the right reasons.
How’s that Nazi bar story go again?
I was at a shitty crust punk bar once getting an afterwork beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “No. Get out.”
And the dude next to me says, “Hey, I’m not doing anything. I’m a paying customer,” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “Out. Now,” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed.
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “You didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.”
And I was like, “Oh okay,” and he continues.
"You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after a while they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends, and the friends bring friends, and they stop being cool and then you realize, ‘Oh shit. This is a nazi bar now.’ And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down."
And I was like, “Oh damn,” and he said, “Yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.”
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.
-iamragesparkle
fuck thats so good so perfectly understandable. When we think about genius we tend to think about mathematicians and physicist working on problems no one else understands. The real genius’s out there though in my opinion are people who understand something so well and so fully they can break down a concept like this. A story anyone can understand.
Absolutely. I’ve heard if you can’t explain something in a way that a beginner would understand, you don’t know it as well as you think you do. That’s real mastery.
brilliant.
That’s something I noticed when I joined Mastodon as well. When people are in control for the sake of community and not profit, things tend to be better in this regard. Let crazies federate with crazies.
NGL I derive some joy seeing maga/conservative/fascist communities getting all their misinformation downvoted to hell while the only positively voted posts are about the crimes & failures of trump and republicans in general.
I don’t want them banned. This is much better.
They don’t learn though. While you may derive pleasure from their ignorance, there are some who may get sucked into their worldview who may not otherwise be. Free speech doesn’t require a community to put up with their nonsense.
What does free speech have to do with it? Free speech right guarantees that you won’t be prosecuted by the government for your words. It doesn’t apply to private communications.
Free speech as a law, maybe, but many people like myself view it as an ideal.
Loved the comment from user @TheLurker@lemmy.world :
*"If you want your own unfiltered feed. Create your own instance and don’t de-federated any other instance. All the content in the feed will be available because like email, it is federated, so you only need to subscribe to the feeds. The admins do not control the content. But they do control the instances which they maintain, and rightly so.
This is NOT A PLATFORM, it is a protocol and you have the choice to engage with it how you want. Don’t like an instance, stop using it. Use another or create your own. You will still get all the content."*
This is just so well stated, imho. Of course the person TheLurker was speaking to isn’t interested in the content, they’re interested in the users so that they can troll them endlessly.
I was so fucking relieved to see that lemmy.world doesn’t fuck around with the fascist “absolute free-speech” game. Fucking FINALLY! If I didn’t already have a reason not to return to reddit/Twitter/whatever, this would’ve been enough on its own. Thank you, admins!
Agreed.
There’s no good reason to platform people who proudly espouse terrorist ideologies, and fascism is 100% a terrorist ideology.
Well, we learned the lesson from Voat. “Absolute free speech” just doesn’t work.
I love how taking out the Trump trash happens so much faster here!
Over in the old place, getting the admins to do something about right-wing toxicity was like pulling teeth. Flagrant TOS-violating bigotry, hate & disinfo would fester for weeks, months, years while the admins yawned
At the same time, if people started talking about punching Nazis, the bans and post deletions would start flying instantly, with admins threatening mods & threatening to ban entire subs if they didn’t delete Nazi-punching posts fast enough.
Gee, you think those admins were biased?
Wait why are you glorifying banning “trump trash”, free speech should definitely not include banning someone for their political opinions. I am voting trump next election hands down.
You don’t get to agree to disagree when your political agenda involves shitting on people’s rights.
This comment is not very self aware. Sad to see so many of the far left have already migrated from reddit, let me guess, you were subbed to r/politics?
The issue with supporting Trump is all the dog whistling he does. People in the know understand that he wants to suppress “the bad people’s” rights. People against that know the tolerance paradox and shut down Trumpism immediately.
People who don’t know the dog whistling wonder why everyone is so upset and continue supporting him.
The man was selling classified information, it’s not a far left to view his supporters as trash, it’s patriotic.
Fuck off conservative trash
While I certainly understand the appeal of “free speech no compromises” the evidence is real clear that any online forum that adopts that mentality invariably becomes a bigoted shitpile, I’m not going to make a choice on philosophical grounds when the reality of the situation makes itself so obvious
Relevant xkcd for the occasion: https://m.xkcd.com/1357/
Those “free speech” places just end up degenerating into a cesspool where people who were banned elsewhere end up congregating.
LOL, the OOP’s username in that linked thread is certainly a username.
Really appreciate all the human eyes keeping a lookout for this nonsense instead of letting the ragebait spiral in on itself with the algorithms.
The mod comment is glorious in the replies:
If it truly gets under your skin that these bigoted spaces are being defederated by the nicer spaces, feel free to join a more right-wing infested instance. Just understand that the rest of the fediverse is not obliged to listen to their lunacy.
Fuckin’ mike drop.
It’s a pretty good take, but also the defederation ban-hammer seems to get dropped a bit, which seems like it should be the last option, not the first.
Surely there should be a way to mark content coming in from questionable servers with a tag so that users can choose to see it on their instance, similar to how NSFW posts can be hidden.
At least that way the content would be federated and things synced, leaving the choice up to the user.
Go ahead and build the feature.
Until it exists, this is the current solution.
That’s the main issue. Corporate social media place “engagement” above everything. This means amplifying hate and bigotry. Once you stop amplifying this shit, it becomes far less prominent and people aren’t caught in a bubble any more.
The lack of corporate influence is really felt here. Corpos love right-wing fanatics because they make people mad, which encourages engagement with a platform.
I’ve really found myself not emotionally engaged when on the fediverse and that’s great.
This is the LITERAL first post I saw after signing up. I’m ecstatic and so fucking relieved
We aren’t quite out of the woods yet. /c/ConservativesOnly /c/Maga /c/conservative and /c/prolife are still around here on lemmyworld and spreading bullshit.
c/ConservativesOnly and c/Maga were removed due to lack of moderation and because the previous moderator(s) were banned.
Holy shit… either that was in the last 10 hours or my lemmy was lagging.
Props to the admins/mods!
NGL part of me wanted the banned mod (OptionHome I think) to stay and be our community laughing stock.
Every one of those but /c/conservative are deleted.
Look the mod/admin tools are limited and we do or best to take care of these things asap but we also don’t want to go nuclear on something without checking it out. /c/conservativesonly and /c/maga had their mods removed a while ago and were up for grabs. that’s why we added the LW_NewModWanted to those communities and asked for new mods. Surprisingly nobody here was interested so now we deleted them completely. They can be recreated on other instances.
Didn’t know about that /c/prolife one until now though. But it’s gone
First, thank you.
Second, you guys are ON TOP OF IT!!! Excellent work, you guys are amazing!
Third,
Surprisingly nobody here was interested so now we deleted them completely
HAHHAHAHAH so you saw my comment???
“FYI nobody is interested go back to reddit”
True but have you looked at the vote scores in those communities?
On reddit they were cesspools but on lemmy they’re laughing stocks. The only posts they can get above zero are antithetical ones pointing out the criminality and incompetence of trump/republicans.
If the internet existed in Germany in the 1930’s, I wouldn’t take much solace in the fact that the fascists are getting downvoted. They’re getting into power and every day they spread more and more dehuminization and hate.
On reddit they became cesspools because the admins refused to do anything about their fascism, so I don’t have a lot of trust for the admins of lemmy.
Would you be happier if it was only upvotes? I don’t follow your logic at all.
I just don’t want fascism to be allowed on this instance to begin with.
If you see anything that violates the lemmy.world rules please report it. Those rules can be found here https://mastodon.world/about
Thanks!
Fascism = political viewpoint that I disagree with
Genuine question: are you just trying to censor any viewpoint that you disagree with? Because it sure as shit seems like you guys are trying to make this into another left-wing circlejerk where anything even remotely right wing is immediately removed regardless of how level-headed or civil it’s presented.
are you just trying to censor any viewpoint that you disagree with?
Nope. I just don’t like fascists.
Oh go back to your own circlejerks. You’ve got plenty. Truth Social, 4chan, Twitter…
You do not belong here.
You do not belong here
My crime? Having a different opinion. You sound awfully fascist to me.
Blocked
I checked those out out of morbid curiosity and saw them mostly being trolled by lefties/libs. Warmed my heart.
nazi punks fuck off
What bothers me is that the free speech absolutists demand free speech for themselves, while offering none to anyone else. They have absolutely no problems with “echo chambers” which only echo and reinforce their beliefs… just look at any of the right-wing alternatives to Twitter, like Truth Social. It’s literally in the terms of service that you can’t challenge or criticize almighty Trump.
Right-wingers have PLENTY of spaces to make their idiotic opinions known… they’re not starved for outlets of expression. So why come here? Sorry, but you’ve already got Germany. You’re not annexing Czechoslovakia and Poland. Can’t has, not yours.
They want to bully people. They’re only able to feel better about themselves by making themselves feel superior. This is why when they rely on culture wars because as soon as they don’t have an enemy to hold their attention they all turn on each other out of necessity.
We’re defederating from exploding heads? That means the admins actually listened to the complaints by community moderators and looked into it. That’s amazing news!
Most content there was violating the lemmy.world rules - which can be found here https://mastodon.world/about.
exploding heads
I don’t know what that is and to be honest at this point I’m too afraid to ask.
The main (ATM) Lemmy instance for alt right fascist types. Pretty much a gigantic dumpster fire of toxicity that prides itself in raiding other instances to propagate their rectal cancer of a worldview. Defederated them on my instance day one, and happy to see the big names doing as much.
I just heard about it minutes ago and the thread was locked. There will be some sort of announcement.
But apparently it was a alt-right conspiracy maga white supremist space. A user was commenting here all pissed off that that their repulsive community can’t be forced on everyone like they would their ideology.
Aww they sound so cute
so cute
aw hell naw who got let the raw chicken on the table
It’s a Fediverse instance which is notorious for being riddled with hate speech
I signed up for Voat years ago when it was online, but the rampant anti-semitism rendered the site unusable.
I wasn’t fed up with reddit enough back then to stick with voat. IIRC it literally was a reddit clone just with 1% of the content.
