What other lemmy-like platforms are there? I came straight here from Reddit because the people championing it were quite convincing. Also... Is hexbear lemmy or is it more akin to kbin?

you can just flat-out ban someone for being a wrecker, you're in a lot better shape than a general-public instance

But my !

no, but soon

I think I know what their strategy will be already: Gain control of liberal/conservative instances, and cause the uncontrollable socialist instances to be defederated in order to isolate them. The instances that choose to federate with corpo social media will probably be the easiest to control and also have the largest user base. Running instances costs money without really making any, so there will be admins happy to accept assistance in the form of funding, but also in the form of “moderation” tooling and labor.

I think the best move for people on Lemmy would be to target communities which have a bad relationship either with a new powermod or come under the scope of reddit's disinformation policy because of current events or a change in opinion etc, general side moderation issues (I no longer care enough about to even make a joke related to this),,,

You get communities like Piracy that are more likely to get it scraped off you get those people to divert a tiny bit of collective resources into running an efficient federated site. AskHistorians briefly considered moving to a new site or something but balked because they are worms. Wish they'd made a lemmy.

Similar strategy applies for microblogging platforms. Mastodon has lifted people like Robert Reich and that seems to be the high tier stuff on there.

I will never forgive them for doing stuff like removing quote tweets to "stop bullying" as if screenshots don't work, but I still visit because a lot of the wildlife and insect and landscape photography community, like programmers, is more willing to reach out for new platforms.

Maybe they care more about what's functional than about a brand of social media, maybe it's bc they're all Robert Reich libs but idk there's hella bug dudes on Mastodon so I still visit.

TLDR - Convincing 50k+ accounts to leave for Pleroma or Mastodon would be good for them. Lemmy needs more communities to leave from various sites. Not just reddit. Maybe scope out even weird forums.

I'm not going to do any of this though, it sounds like a complete waste of my time. So maybe that undermines this as advice.

That is what the Dem-aligned corporate media wanted Democrats to believe, and they seem have been very successful at it.

Jacobin, Dec. 2022: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal

Taibbi and others have discovered & revealed much more about the corporate social media propaganda system in the year since then, but Democrats have been trained to ignore all of it.

Yeah, he basically ignored how voices on the left are way more likely to get banned for bullshit reasons, presumably because Musk didn't provide him with those files. He let himself and his reputation be used, despite knowing better.

Wat. Also, isn’t People's Policy Project just one Matt Bruenig in a trench coat?

Feds: "I will post hard"

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