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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is the big one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, fuck Nazis!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hah. It's probably gonna be worse here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I doubt that any instance I'd be interested in being a part of would federate with nazi communities. They'd end up more isolated than on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is why I love the idea of Federation. You can give them their own space to shout and fling their faeces as much as they want but absolutely nobody is required to give them an audience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They main instances have taken strong stances against nazi shit. The Lemmy developers are leftwing communists even, and they run lemmy.ml, so I don't think defederating from servers who'll platform nazis is unlikely.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The comment "This" is annoying to me. Just use the upvote button!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Zero tolerance for fascists, and zero tolerance for state propagandists.

The fact that Lemmy is federated means you don't need to be tolerant of anyone and if they want to keep spewing bigotry and lies. If you make it impossible for them to exist in an instance they'll have to either give up or spool up their own instance that we can isolate.

Because running an instance requires some organization, maintenance, and money, anything that becomes too isolated from the rest of the fediverse will eventually die out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for the screenshot of a Reddit post of a Lemmy post of an Instagram post about Elon tweeting some shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Upvote/downvote counts mangling. Just show the real numbers, don't mess with them with an unknown "algorithm".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mods locking threads because β€œy'all can’t behave” jfc just ban accounts breaking the rules and let the rest discuss

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The power that the admins have. While most subreddit bans were justified, in my opinion, it just felt really off for them to have so much power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here admin has even more power, except it is limited to their own instance. So it is more on the user to be prepared. You don't want to be too attached to your data on a single instance. The instance might be abandoned, down, gone; the admin might go crazy. And the solution isn't to have the admin be more reasonable. The solution is to hedge your bets on multiple instances and multiple communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A relatively small thing: the 500-comment viewing limit for normal accounts. So many times on Reddit I've been put off engaging with posts with 500+ comments knowing that nobody would see it. It's stupid because comments are just text and unless the software design is absolutely terrible then simple text comments shouldn't take up bandwidth at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

the 500 comment limit made the concept of daily threads replacing common questions a killer on subs like r/fitness. "Has this question been asked before? Well, instead of being able to pull up several threads about this topic, I have to go through the daily threads of hundreds of days and search the comments for keywords - after increasing the number of comments visible from 200 to 500, and then still not being able to search all the comments on the 1000+ comment threads." Just genuinely became unusable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Massive amounts of cross-posting / re-posting of the same memes over and over again for klout farming. It's seriously awful on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit has a longstanding reputation for being a hive of scum and villainy (like hosting the_donald for years, or kotakuinaction, etc). I really hope that Lemmy keeps with the general left-leaning vibes of the fediverse overall, hopefully being a good space for queer people, women, people of colour, etc.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you do have to be careful here though. If you're too permissive you allow bigotry, but if you're too restrictive you cut off honest, good faith debate and create echo chamber silos where beliefs are never challenged.

Bigotry should never be accepted but that means non-discriminatory opinions, especially ones you disagree with, should be allowed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Good faith is the key here. I'm all for disagreements leading to lengthy discussions and even some controversy as long as everyone is arguing in good faith.

I can't stand trolling, outright bigotry, and the normalization of literal fascist opinions as a mere "disagreement". If a "disagreement" (you know which ones I mean) will lead to people dying if enabled, I'm pretty happy keeping those ideas out.

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