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So much fearmongering. I'm new to Lemmy, and it seems to me that the Kamala campaign has infected Lemmy as well, just like they have Reddit. Looks like I'm not safe from leftist echochambers even after switching to Lemmy.
If supporting Kamala is your definition of a leftist echochamber you clearly haven't browsed Lemmy much
What are you on about lol.
Leftists on lemmygrad and hexbear don't support Kamala. You're on lemmy.world tho so I don't blame you for not knowing.
Hell, a large portion of us outside of grad and hexbear don't exactly like Harris. Sure is a helluva lot better than a bald faced fascist though.
How many lemmies are there? Could you please teach me how to use this place... or places??? Idk.
There are a lot of Lemmy instances (or lemmies) out there. I don't even know how many my self 😅.
Each instances are characterized by their set of rules and moderation styles. You can see them through join-lemmy.org/instances as well as their description. To see a user's instance, just look at the domain after their username and the @.
Usually each instances can decide if they want to be able to interact with users and communities from a certain instance. That's called being federated.
Sometimes tho they don't think an instance's userbase or community follows their rules, so they can decide to cut all interactions with them. That's called being defederated.
The instance you are on, lemmy.world, is ironically, very US centered, and is the most popular instance. It's defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, so you will never see posts from them on lemmy.world unless it's a screenshot or something.
Since I'm on lemmy.ml tho, I can see posts from lemmy.world, hexbear and lemmygrad.
The benifit of this is that each instance can curate their experience how they see fit. If you think a moderator is being too trigger-happy on an instance, or you don't agree on how lenient they are (or whatever other reason), you can migrate to another instance. So let's say you want to go to lemmy.ml (which I highly doubt you would, but just an example), you go into your account settings, export your data, create your lemmy.ml account and import it. Currently it doesn't support importing comments, but the devs are working on it.
I'm not the best at explaining things, but I'm sure !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca could help.
I use lemmyverse.net for finding communities
They left out one other important thing - like how you can see and interpret with users on other instances, each instance also has its own communities, and the community names are also @ whichever server hosts them. For example, there are multiple politics communities.
And groups hosting a Lemmy instances range from the Lemmy devs to a bunch of tankies to instances like the one I'm from, which is run by a group called SDF that's been around since the 80s and had its start as a dialup anime BBS.
Fearmongering? The republican presidential candidate talked about using the national guard / military on "radical leftists"/"the enemy within". If that's not a threat/fascism, what is?
That's what I've been asking the magabrainz in my life when they object to the f-word. I ask them if this doesn't count as fascism, what would count, in their view?
So far, no cogent responses. All emoting.
Source?
Here ya go bud.
I understand wanting out of echo chambers but this has been everywhere for awhile.
I'll do more research on this.
You don't need to research.
Its the core theme of Trumpie during election promotion events.
Yes, I do. The media has a reputation of taking things Trump says out of context to the point where you'd have to go look for raw interview footage to confirm for yourself.
Do you like cram the night before a test as well? I've been watching his interviews and rallies intently up till now, I don't understand this desire to procrastinate homework while talking like you did the assignment.
What exactly were you expecting when you shifted to the Reddit alternative whose main developers were communist? You're either clueless or a bot.
In their defence why would you expect them to know about the political stance of the devs?
Honestly, I think they're a troll account. In general Lemmy took a bit more effort for me personally to sign up to vs Reddit, I had to figure out an instance and roughly how it worked before signing up and the political stance of the devs came up. I mostly assumed most people went through a similar process.
If you read my comment, I said I'm new here. That is my first ever comment here. How was I supposed to know that the website was being ran by tankies? I've jumped from the frying pan into the fire. I can't escape far leftists. And they want to put a communist and a known warmonger in office. We're so cooked.
Lmao if Kamala was a communist more people on Lemmy.ml would've voted for her.
Evidently clueless in more way than one. No worries botski
Np. I can see that Kamala's army of astroturfers from their discord server have already dealt with my comment.
Lol what? What discord server? You may find that even discord is slightly looked down upon here.
boggle
Um, what?
The only talking point is the report from a conservative news paper.
Not just a conservative news paper: Conspiracy Theories, Propaganda, Failed Fact Checks.
I'm not the person you responded to, but I prefer my news sources to not fail fact checks, push propaganda, and spread conspiracy theories.
Do you know how stupid that is?
You even use the dehumanizing rhetoric that extreme right people are using in order to make it easier to see them as less than human.
Why would anyone trust them after they've failed numerous fact checks? You're literally trusting an outlet that's pushing fake news.
This would have been my answer as well... Thanks for paraphrasing it such a good way.
The value of a newspaper is only when it is fact checked.
If fact check fails, what's the point of reading it. May the lemmy users know?
And also be a bit more respectful to others if they are not in the same boat as your own political views.
You aren't welcome here. Bounce on back to Reddit.
Asking as a non US citizen: why do you believe Trump is better than Kamala? Just objectively curious.
It's not Trump that I believe in. It's RFK Jr. But since RFK Jr joined forces with Trump, a vote for Trump is a vote for RFK Jr. Any genuine RFK Jr supporter knows that.
First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.
Second, I can only guess you're talking about Harris when speaking "a communist and a known war monger". Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn't communist or far left. That's 100% right-wing propaganda. America's Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn't that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.
As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you're talking about.
🤨 I've never heard a right-winger, or even a liberal use that term.
Good for you I guess...?
Um, tankies? I don't think that means what you think it means.
A tankie is another name for a communist.
That's simply not true, but by happenstance the particular communists in question are tankies.