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I've seen around 3 occasions of that this week, altho I have never seen anything like it before.

if I remember correctly they were:

  • smack talking a mod (FlyingSquid) for saying not to report the same comment twice, when they were different comments, and the report was spam
  • someone comparing .world with .ml in politics (as in there was a comment saying "this post will be overrun with .ml people, and then a comment going "but you are from .world") (Maybe Im part of the problem? I have been called out for being a fascist because I questioned the "puching nazis" theme)
  • one more which I can't remember.

Anyways, what is all that about? Are people really starting to hate on 50% of the lemmy population because of their instance?

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[–] Soup@lemmy.cafe 31 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Because the pedantic shit that the socialist get away with in .ml, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad doesn’t fly here. And because of this, they accuse .World of bias while completely ignoring the fact that their own instances ban people for simply being “liberal.”

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[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

lemmyworld in many ways is still just reddit. don't get me wrong, I've talked to plenty of cool people on there before. but it is the biggest instance that ballooned after the API controversy and a lot of them seem to have just brought Reddit to the fediverse with them. I have no issues with any mods there, I've not really seen them at all. they did defed a community from my instance though so that's pretty lame of them.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I beg to differ: even Reddit these days is little like Reddit, as it was just prior to the protests. Reddit f-ing died, and Lemmy.World is nothing like that shithole, especially what's left nowadays with bots copying bots speaking to bots, allowing humans to simply scroll forever.

To any extent that it is like the Reddit of old though, yeah it's just bc it's so big. It was guaranteed that some instance would become that, bc people are people - at least here, not like AI-Reddit. 🤡

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

t’s just bc it’s so big

It's not the World is big...

It's just everyone else is so small.

Like in the grand scheme of the fediverse we're all tiny. But of the "reddit clone" instances it might be bigger than everyone else put together even.

I went over to your instance and checked, and yeah, it's a reddit clone interface too

The structure makes all of us "like reddit" because reddit has always had a shit ton of different small subs with vastly different vibes. A decade ago there was some sub on Reddit that had the exact same vibe your instance has today. That's just how big reddit was.

Federation just means no one group of admins can seize control, even if World went to shit tomorrow, everyone would just bounce. I have zero "loyalty" to my instance, if it starts to suck I'm out.

That's the point of this whole thing.

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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Also, just thinking about it, but OP, you are posting this on a LW community, while people really disliking LW probably blocked the instance. You could maybe crosspost to !asklemmy@lemmy.ml to get additional answers

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Some of the dumbest and most aggressive comments I've seen on Lemmy came from lemmy.world. Most comments on it seem OK, but it does have a reddit-like flavour with a good number of unpleasant users.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I have nothing against the wolders but the admins of that instance raise more than a few eyebrows. Particularly when they rolled back specific anti hate speech policies in favor of vague common sense ones to stay ahead of the anti-woke crowd.

Kind of feels like they have been trying to take over Lemmy. Which... Could be a lot worse but still rubs me the wrong way.

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[–] RonnieB@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (6 children)

What's wrong with punching nazis?

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 7 points 2 days ago

It doesn't do as much damage as biting them

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[–] eatthecake@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

The instance structure conveniently groups people together and labels them. Stereotyping, bias and tribalism are the natural result.

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