I started on lemmy.world, and volunteered to mod a few communities relevant to my interests. Somebody started swinging at me on a post, sounding pretty super right. I looked at their profile and they were straight on some nazi shit. Literally, espousing nazi talking points.
I also noticed that they were mod on one community I was mod. I linked to relevant content and asked admin to remove said mod, and if they don't it's their perogative but I'd remove myself from mod-ship, no worries. I just don't want to share a space with that person who so openly is on that bullshit. 🤷
I was banned from the entire instance within 10 minutes.
What clowns, good on you for taking a stand. Dope username btw, the movie is going to be lit.
It's been out for a bit now, it goes hard! I saw them for my birthday last week too, my second time ❤️
Oh and thanks, for the other thing :p
holy shit, the sequel is out?! Thanks dude I thought it was an upcoming release. Made my day learning it is out.
Seeing them live must have been amazing. Cheers
any anticommunist space on the internet trends fascist sooner or later
Because they're incompetent neoliberals who didn't want anything to the left of them to exist because it exposes them as immoral shitbags. What they didn't understand at the time was that when you remove the left from your space you are drastically shifting your community rightwards. Now they have a fascism problem and it looks increasingly like Voat did.
It wasn't really supported by their users either. It was a decision that seemed to entirely come from Antik.
You won't get an answer here that isn't just shameless self-aggrandizement.
The shameless self-aggrandizement is 100% true btw
I am new here, adn I keep wondering how can I display those cool emojis like the one with the bear you just did. I cannot find any options for it.
I dunno what the right way is but I type a : and then that pops up a like search thing that lets you pick one. Once you pick one it pops this big long string of bullshit into your post that becomes an emoji. So for example if you type :sicko you get a bunch of stuff like
@ComradeLuz@hexbear.net additionally to what infamousbIt said; when you are typing up a new comment or reply, one of the buttons above the text field looks like a smiley face (between "link" and "upload image.") You can click this to open up the emoji picker menu. The asterisk tab on the far right of this window is where you can find all of the custom emojis we have.
one trick you can use is to "view source" on a comment to see what the person typed
click the three vertical dots for more options, then click the icon that looks like a document
I posted "fellas is it gay to confederate" and we got instablocked
("it's only gay if you share a cross-site session token" was too wordy)
Almost everyone there is a milquetoast lib, but the admins are closer to fash than lib. So of course they hate us. It’s mutual.
For real. I've begun to associate "@lemmy.world" with the most average r/Politics liberal takes and talking points.
It is scary though because they are by far many more people than us
You know how some options should never be considered unless they're proven to be absolutely necessary through things that have happened over an extended duration of time?
They realized that they had to do that last resort choice preemptively.
(If this makes no sense it's because it makes no sense)
The admin team there had stated in the context of them not banning nazi instances that "banning is a last resort". They banned us pre-emptively.
So, they are okay with fascists, but not with leftists. Interesting... Btw, which are the nazi instances?
I think the main instance being discussed there was explodingheads, which is a weird reactionary instance that I'm not exactly sure how to categorize, but there are also more straightforwardly 4chan ones like "postinglolirocks"
I have lurked here for a long time, but I just don’t understand the logic here. I read the statement that was linked here, and it just seemed like they were saying that they should be respectful and follow our rules? … Isn’t dismantling propaganda… through “informed rhetoric” a good thing? Why are NATO, the IMF or World Bank automatically good? … Aren’t we just creating a bubble by preemptively blocking a large lemmy instance just because we don’t like their political speech? As far as I can tell they aren’t promoting racism or bigotry. Has lemmy.world preemptively banned nazi or right-wing instances?
They're pretty incompetent admins too. It seems that their instance is down more than it's up. In fact, it was down right now when I tried to open that link. I don't know why anyone stays there. Maybe they don't and those user numbers they have are nowhere near their true active numbers. In a way this sucks for Lemmy because it's the largest instance and people seem to be attracted to that kind of thing, so they get a bad first impression of Lemmy.
It's down so often because it's the largest instance, and it's perpetually DDOSed among other more vile attacks. Lemmy.ml is federated with them, so I see their announcement and status posts and can definitely confirm the numbers aren't inflated.
Here's one of their explanation posts about the situation: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697
All their explanations for why they're constantly down basically go back to them letting it grow much bigger than they could handle, because they decided to be the "savior" of Lemmy. Contrast that with what the largest Mastodon instances did when the Twitter migration happened, which was to close registrations and refer people back to join-mastodon to find another instance. This included the largest instance, mastodon.social, which is run by the creator of Mastodon.
Incompetence is understandable given that it's new software, the sudden influx from Reddit, plus everyone makes mistakes. The bigger problem that I see is the hubris that made them decide that they could absorb all the new Lemmy users and then not ever changing that decision even after it became clear that they had major stability problems. In their effort to "save" Lemmy, they've actually given a lot of people a terrible first impression of it. I've seen countless people complain on r/RedditAlternatives about how Lemmy sucks when the details they provide make clear that it's lemmy.world that they're complaining about.
I’ll always appreciate that post because it convinced me to leave lemmy.world and subscribe to hexbear communities. I was nodding along to all the quotes from “scary hexbear” in the OP
it did us a big favor because everyone that came from there was a worthless piece of libshit
But we won't be able to convert liberals to have more people for the revolution :'(
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