I don’t understand the reddit users who are claiming they don’t want to join Lemmy over political reasons. They could create their own instance with whatever rules they want and push whatever political agenda they want. The fact that the platform is decentralized means everyone can get with they want.

Oh, this is absolutely hilarious.

I dunno, “too political” can just mean people don’t want every discussion to devolve into politics. Having these strong left communities front and center can give that impression. I don’t need to read a low effort “capitalism bad” on every topic. I hope this doesn’t devolve into that, but filtering out the politically apathetic sends us in direction for that to happen.

It is funny how the only viable Reddit alternative I’ve found so far (here) isnt led by weird libertarian tech bros but communists lol

The “centrists” that all all in favor of letting the oppressor and the oppressed talk their differences in a neutral playground are great.

Requires a level of love for the status quo and lack of reflection that never ceases to amaze.

Dude, you are not in the center. You are three steps from the neonazis and a thousand kilometers from the tankies. Even if you are opposed to the “extremes” and “mu horseshoe” yo are not equidistant.

I’ll admit that I struggled to figure out Mastodon when twitter changed hands. For me it was either too confusing or not worth figuring out. Maybe it was just the nature of it being more about personal posts, so each server was much more different.

I had no such trouble with Lemmy/Beehaw. Drop-in replacement. That said, I don’t think I’m a communist? I’m not a raging capitalist either though? I’m just kinda here.

I think Lemmy is too political, but still joined a long time ago. Things can improve with time. We’re seeing this happen now.

they’re too stupid to figure out lemmy

Please let’s not introduce elitism into Lemmy. I just got here and stumbled upon this post. The social network you use does not make you superior. As much as I agree with anti-racist censorship, there is no need to speak as if Lemmy users are superior beings. It was annoying when Redditors did it back in the day and it will continue to be now.

I disagree. Lemmy is really lacking proper leadership. The current leadership while incredibly skilled and well intentioned really sucks at leading a project like this which is mostly because of their extreme political stances.

That being said, good riddance in this case. It’s perfectly fine to miss out on some people and every instance has it’s own right to moderate itself however it wants.

claims he isn’t far right

Right-wing extremists do this to make it seem like their position is widely held and “normal.” The worst extreme right-wing party we have here in Finland (Valta kuuluu kansalle or “Power Belongs to the People”, aka Valta kuuluu Kremlille or “Power Belongs to the Kremlin”) claims to be center right. The head of the party is a pro-Russia flat earther who doesn’t believe in climate change, and the party is staunchly anti-immigration

On the one hand, I hate the right’s bullshit. But, on the other hand, there was some comfort in having the ability to keep tabs on them. If they pick a different space, it’ll be harder to anticipate what they’re planning.

As this is a post on Beehaw, I’m going to abide by the rule and omit any unsavory words I was originally going to include 🙂

Whether intentional or not, the slur filter was one of the most genius things the Lemmy developers have ever done. No one was under any false pretenses that it was the absolute best way of moderating a space. In fact, everyone knew from the get-go that it had its fair share of problems! But it did one thing splendidly: it acted as a barrier against people obsessed with free speech who claim a slur filter is a tool used by some nebulous participants in the current culture war. I’ll refer to this comment made by user uabstraction on Hacker News 2 years ago.

Even to this day you see those people using the slur filter as a talking point against the devs, the software, the wider community, etc. even though it hasn’t been hard-coded or required for over a year at this point!

Meanwhile, as they continue to avoid Lemmy and prophesize its downfall, the people actually participating on Lemmy are growing a community and just generally vibing! No one is fainting at the thought that they can’t say a slur.

My teenage son and I recently had a conversation about how the people complaining something is “too political” are the ones with a political agenda you have to watch out for. He pleasantly surprised me by being 2 steps ahead of me (he told me he liked the thing people were criticizing because of the political aspects).

Is there a Lemmy equivalent of r/SelfAwareWolves?

How can someone honestly claim to be “in the middle” when one side openly embraces Nazis, sexism, and other forms of bigotry? What’s the middle ground there?

There’s a difference between needing a safe space and not wanting to hang out with the KKK.

Would Lemmy embrace or allow /r/2ALiberals ? This is a topic I’ve been curious about.