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[–] Ion@lemmy.myserv.one 82 points 2 months ago (13 children)

"I must preserve my echo chamber!"

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would someone who doesn't like blocking and de-federation like "federated platforms"?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah part of the point of this is that it’s not a free speech zone unless you want a free speech instance. I prefer a more curated against bigots experience. Others don’t. Still others prefer other forms of curation. Federation means we can all talk to each other as long as we stay within boundaries of what others will stay federated with.

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[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

free speech also applies to lemmy servers. If the server doesn't agree with most of what's on your server, they can and should have the option to not associate with your server at all. This honestly sounds like a shit take elon would have made.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 months ago

I think it depends on what you disagree with. If one is promoting going after our neighbors, hunting them down and killing them? Yeah, defederate. If another is Meta trying to take over the federation. Yeah, I vote defederate. If one thinks Hawaiian pizza is a travesty and the other doesn't, hold your horses.

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I defederated lemmy.world because I don't feel like hosting and re transmitting US propaganda.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It is kinda surprising how much obvious propaganda makes it onto Lemmy, for example those memes that aren't really memes as much as "haha this opinion wrong"

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lemmy itself is largely made up of Communists, Anarchists, and liberals fleeing Reddit.

As a consequence, there's a lot of Communist agit-prop, and a lot of reflective panic on the hands of liberals.

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

lemmy world admins cracking down on posts they don't like with no accountability and arbitrarily changing their ToS after the fact to cover for it, but somehow the entirety of the factionalist weirdos who cling to the idea of a corpo-friendly Reddit clone are laying the blame on... other instances?

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Some places suck.

Some places suck, by design.

Reducing criticism of systemic problems to "just because you disagree" is dishonest... and indicative.

[–] Corgana@startrek.website 22 points 2 months ago (5 children)

"You censored me for my opinion"

"What opinion was it?"

"..."

"What opinion was it Anakin?"

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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I tried like 4 different lemmy instances before settling on lemm.ee because it hasn't defederated from the socialists or "tankies". So I can participate.

This defederation fracturing lemmy really speaks to both self-censorship of allowable ideologies and also bad quality of admins and mods several servers.

If lemmy can't somehow federate communities separately from instances I don't see lemmy thriving.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (22 children)

Lemmy is thriving enough. Self-sufficient instances like Hexbear are fine without large amounts of federation. I do see Lemmy.world running into issues in the future due to their strong Zionist slant and anti-Leftist stance, but the other major instances seem to be fine.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, I basically searched for which one is least likely to defederate from random shit.

I'm prepared to traverse seas of horrors to bring home fresh memes every single day (except I sometimes skip alternating Tuesdays if I have to wait for too long to say hi to Reginald).

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[–] match@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago

let people defederate idgaf

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (47 children)

When Musk took over Twitter he allowed violent and extremist views to flood it without moderation.

That's the sort of community Lemmy would be if we didn't have the tools needed to keep it clean of harmful ideologies.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago (11 children)

You mean like Exploding Heads? I agree, fuck Nazis.

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this is so true lmao.

mm yes federated media platform, surely i won't run into shitty people now

runs into shitty people:

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 8 points 2 months ago

In aggregate; 5 instances, less than 5 communities, and more than 69, nice, blocked users.

I don't mess around. I don't hesitate to block people who argue needlessly, make my experience less informational or less entertaining, troll, or disregard arguments made in foundational logic to push a point of view or 'win the argument'. Similarly my instance ignores downvotes and does not display them; as with most platforms which behave similarly to reddit; they simply do not work outside of your personal, local account, local instance, user-sorting context.

[–] sem@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago
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