crowlemo

joined 1 year ago
[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If only the US democrats and republicans hasn't lobbied and pushed for this war to happen.

Oh I'm sorry. Forgot you can't say that and we have to pretend Russia woke up one day and decided to invade... Sigh.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I'm curious if you feel the same way about Italy and nearly every other country already banning protests because "it's for yours or others safety" like they dd when they passed extremely Draconian covid policies.

And this is not hypothetical. Police didn't allow people to manifest against the gov.

What you say is bad, but it I hope people would be consistently appalled. Not just partisan based.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No it's not. And for every account you don't have a shared history. You don't build a community.

Also, which are those apps you talk about? Because Jerboa doesn't seem to be great for that. Switching between accounts is needed and quite annoying.

We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit

No. You're way more beholden. The adminmod rules it all. What you see, who they federate, etc and it's all defended by rabid users because "if you don't like it leave and build your own instance*". It's not about community but instance owner absolute power.

Doesn't quite work unless you're absolutely in line with whichever narrative is happening. The echo chambers are bigger and the consequential toxicity upon dissent, much bigger.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you're a nazi. You don't like it? Make your own instance.

Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don't depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can you suggest that smaller instance? Meeaw and sh.it, the 2 instances I tried keep defederating left and right and justifying bullying as long as it confirms to their political opinions.

It's hypocritical, circlejerky and boring. Made me go back to Reddit. I don't understand how this paradigm of no user control without the absurd friction of self hosting is better for the user unless you're a niche authoritarian who is fully subservient to some admin.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The friction is too high each time. Compared to Reddit without offering that much value. Hell, that Blocklist admin is good and owns your user Paradigm makes for very inflexible and circlejerky interactions

Love it or leave means total consent or fuck you. That's not a community. It's a cult.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nazi shit. A big claim. I don't care to talk with people who sees Nazis everywhere, you're exactly the type of authortiarian user I'm talking about.

If my country has a different policy than your political party of choice, probably in the US, then suddenly I'm a nazi for even having an opinion. Don't worry, I'm also a nazi for being against X war and a nazi for being for free speech, and a baby killer for X in another more pro abortion place and whatever.

Lame thinskinned authortiarians are exactly those who are attracted with this insanely top down lemmyworld. The type that will seek a cause and a self defined victimhood status in order to have different rules so they can abuse others, because you're right and it's "the greater good".

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes. I also can develop my own social website. Both are efforts that are not worth it to undertake to just participate in this environment, which, will make the default barrier of entry a ridiculous one (or an authortiarian minded one).

No. It's not. When the power is on decentralized Ids that the instance doesn't have so much power over, then it will be more interesting. As it stands, it offers actually less than Reddit, which is incredible to me (I'm super onboard with descentralization and user power but this is not user power).

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Actually defederated as it works here means one party has way more power than in centralized Reddit.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/511746

It ruins it for anyone who is not deeply in agreement with the admins.

It's admins and groupthink over users. And zero stability or discoverability. Friction with little to gain unless you're in authoritarian lockstep

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That can be used by any authoritarian claiming to be the greatest good.

It's great to bully and censor but inevitably ends in subjugation.

That's the types that want this end up in very small circles or simply agreeing with whatever authority sells.

[–] crowlemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Except the user had actually more power to create a positive experience with heterogeneous content in the centralized Reddit than here.

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