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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (10 children)

"I must preserve my echo chamber!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

HOW DARE YOU HAVE A MODERATELY DISSENTING VOICE, YOU LITERAL NAZI?!?!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

let people defederate idgaf

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (37 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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Have yet to personally block any instances. So far I think the closest I've come is blocking a spider community because fuck those hell spawns and a Minecraft community or two.

Edit:

Found out there's more than I remember being blocked. Multiple mc communities, a cock community (, because that stuff ain't for me and I remember accidentally clicking on one post from there by accident), a pussy community because I don't come here for porn, a Sintendo community, some bikinibottomtwitter or something similarly named community (you can guess why), and for some reason an xbox community (couldn't tell you why).

Also, I noticed for some reason I have someone from a different instance that I cannot remember why I blocked. Some guy from lemmt(dot)tf, so I have absolutely no clue since I have no idea what that instance is like, let alone remember anything about that account.

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[–] [email protected] 3 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.

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