I came here a few weeks ago after many years of reddit. Altogether I find discussions I enjoy, however, the posts and comments noticeably lean, well, tankie (I didn’t know that term before I came here). It’s not that I am looking for an echo chamber, but I also don’t want to spend my time reading propaganda. I’m really curious about a lot of things outside politics, as well as the opinions and arguments of reasonable people across the political spectrum, but I don’t want to listen to the boring canned lies of fascists and tankies. I realized that people celebrating communist dictators trigger me, and this is something I didn’t have to deal with before I started reading lemmy, I didn’t even know this type existed.
I also notice that accounts created just a few hours in advance come from other instances to brigade political posts. Because of how lemmy works, I can block individual users or communities, but not individual instances. Is there an instance that could be a “safe space” from this kind of brigading and tankie spam? Or a way to use the internet to read interesting things now that blogs died and then Reddit became whatever it became?
Edit: Thanks everyone for the helpful and wholesome comments. Of course, some trolls/wackos showed up as well to say hi.
I closed it up and made it a private development instance last year, but you basically just described Dubvee.
Far left crazies and far right crazies are removed with equal prejudice, though the far right is much rarer (and often just trolls). Regardless, it’s moderated here to a, well, moderate temperature. We also don’t federate with the Triad (Hexbear, Grad, and
.ml) as well as a few other instances (one of them a big instance that throws an error on a calculator) that are centered around and encourage identity politics (another source of what you’re describing in your post).Even though we’re “closed” I still keep the instance running in order to develop the Tesseract UI, and if you want to try out the kind of space that’s curated here, I would be willing to approve your application. I’ve toyed with the idea of re-launching and seeking out another admin or 3, but haven’t had the time to put much thought into it.
TL;DR is I’ve always tried to run Dubvee as “normie friendly” and cut out some of the more, uh, rabid parts of the fediverse, and if you want to try it out, I’d be willing to allow it.
https://dubvee.org/signup
I’ve always dug your views and you should bring dubvee back! Do the relaunch!!!
The downvotes on your post, proves your point about extremists. The only people who would be offended by your post, are people who don’t want neutral, nuanced discussion.
Heh, thanks. My main view is that there are lots and lots and lots of views that exist between the extreme ends of the ideological spectrum, and apparently that’s a controversial opinion here. 🙄
Yes, and one reason Lemmy’s growth is stunted is due to its extremism. I’m noticing an increasing number of people leaving the platform because of it.
Only way I can see to fight this, is that we gotta remain committed to promoting positivity and hope that more neutral individuals will join us.
The issue lies in the fact that people are not flocking here simply because they dislike Reddit; it’s because they’ve been banned from Reddit for being too extreme.
It’s laughable to me that so many here claim that Reddit is a “conservative platform.” Reddit is far from conservative. It’s one of the most liberal social platforms out there. I bailed on it because I don’t like how much power the mods have to ban you from entire platform there. So Lemmy definitely wins in that regard.