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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.

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[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gettin' hot in here. Remember Rule 1 people!

People who engage in debate in good faith are welcome. People who abuse and name call are not. Doesn't matter what your political ideology is, BE NICE!

[–] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you are assuming that people are capable of good faith.

some simply are not.

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[–] teolan@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago (12 children)

It used to be much more dominated by the tanky rethoric of the devs, and most discussions were around FLOSS/Privacy. Now it's much more diverse.

Also, lots of porn. I kinda wish it were possible to completely block instances as a user. If I understand it's on the roadmap.

[–] sethw@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

hmm, does kbin not get the porn? how annoying

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[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 105 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

Lemmy.World has gained a lot more fascists. Seemingly not so much the case on the other instances. Maybe because beehaw defederated so they think that’s the place to be to troll lefties and liberals and organize? Uncertain but anecdotally it’s definitely happening.

Mods and admins need to get proactive. We’ve all seen what happens to places when the right invades - everyone else leaves, it descends into a cess pit, even the nazis leave, site dies.

Let’s not turn into voat.

The right has nothing to offer anyone who isn’t a giant bigot, these days. They have no positions beyond, “hurt the people who I say need hurting.”

There is no valuable discussion that can come out of talking to a right winger. At this point they are all Sartre’s antisemite.

In fact, including right wingers only strengthens left and liberal echo chambers because instead of discussing nuanced matters everyone jumps up to dunk on the Nazi.

Kill baby Hitler in his crib. Autoban right wingers before they destroy the fediverse.

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Based AF comment glad to have you here comrade

[–] user_Blue@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Left wing, right wing. We're all under the same bird" so let's fly together. People. Are. People. The only difference is experience over the course of life. Meet in the middle, agree to disagree, try to have an intellectual and thought provoking discussion with anybody. Deciding to blindly hate half of your country's people is bot a good decision. It's a blanket treatment. If you were treated a certain way by those you despise just for being who you are, I'm sure it isn't fair. Dont be a hypocrite and do it back, assuming anything will be better. You'll just drive the wedge that divides you from them deeper. The world is uncomfortable

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you were treated a certain way by those you despise just for being who you are, I’m sure it isn’t fair. Dont be a hypocrite and do it back

TIL being queer is the same as voluntarily adopting an ideology of hatred.

can't you, like, come to common cause with NAZIS

Jesus fucking Christ with you people.

Miss me with this milquetoast appeasement nonsense. Google Chamberlain.

[–] DrTautology@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Damn straight.

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mean... anyone who isn't a pro russia/China shill? Sorry but the LM/fascists/nazis are all the same. Bad people.

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

literally didn't mention china or russia but yeah some tankies circlejerking their bad takes on the internet are not equivalent to the nazis who are out there murdering people on the reg.

the fact that you think they're equatable, as well as the fact that you bring them up out of nowhere points to your true ideology, even if you aren't aware of what it is.

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[–] Turkey_Titty_city@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

been here a month or so.

def seeing more abusive people show up, and nutcases who are spamming their ideological nonsense on every post who have think being first to post about their victim hood as misunderstood holders of THE TRUTH is some sort of relevant commentary and they are being oppressed by some other group of a different ideology.

this thread seems to be exhibit A.

also way more low quality shit posting and memes which i have to spend several minutes blocking each morning.

[–] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People like you show up and act like you have no ideology, that you're just a fully blank slate. You are the guest, you are bringing your ideology here. We've been around for years. We are just used to being in a minority ideology and having discourse about it, you have never seen ideology in the way that a fish has never seen water.

You're dead on about the low energy shitposting and memes tho

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[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Perfect example of Reddit refugee. BLOCK BLOCK BAN BLOCK. WHY ARE PEOPLE I DISAGREE WITH IN EXISTANCE 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Maybe you could just say I don't agree with you instead of blocking things outright

[–] Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How do you appear in every single thread bitching about liberals? You know your people have safe zones? Why not just go there.

Grab yourself a hot little Truth Social ™ account and you can rant about brown people and LGBTQ people all you want. Nobody will complain.

Come on, it'll be fun. Y'all can compare truck flags.

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[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

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

[–] varzaman@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] varzaman@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] purahna@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I have never once met a person who talks like this who has also made a good faith effort to under Marxist thought. Why are you so confident? We've been around for hundreds of years, we have a lively and robust intellectual landscape, and calling us red fash without even making an attempt to hear us out hurts you more than it hurts us.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

He said long time not "joined 12 days ago"

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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[–] FranklinsBeard@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Are you talking lemmygrad leftists or real leftists?

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[–] Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

While there is some bad, overall it had genuinely changed for the better. There's a lot more diversity in the kind of people here and the kind of content posted. It used to be a lot more dominated by Tankie nonsense.

[–] wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got my first explicit scatological DM from someone with no fewer than three actual slurs (n-word included) in their username yesterday, from the lemmy.world instance (yes, my instance), so that was "fun". I've also seen the same sort of posts, from the same sorts of users, elsewhere in comment sections. Fun times.

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[–] mrmanager 17 points 1 year ago

More rude people yes. But it was to be expected. On the plus side, more content also created by people who are not rude and immature. Most are not.

[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

The memes are way better and hitting real good these days.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

OK, I'm going to lock this post. People obviously didn't get the message from my previous comment.

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