I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

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    “We should defederate from everything which does not agree with my .world view and create a giant centralized echo chamber”!

    Why the fuck does every .world user suddenly want Lemmy to be Reddit?

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      We should defederate from everything which does not agree with my .world view

      I will try to formulate this as well as I can:

      “One should not give a platform to instances which don’t give a platform to others.”

      Examples (based on hexbear):

      • in some communities you get banned for voting the wrong way --> other instances don’t practise banning for votes

      • in some communities you get banned for being “reactionary” (that is, factual - Wikipedia would get banned just as quick) --> other instances only ban bigots, not people who politely disagree with locals

      • in some communities, there is no obvious recourse to get a ban reviewed and reversed --> on other instances, there is a metacommunity about management or instructions about how to challenge a ban

      The result: certain instances are granted a platform by others, but aren’t granting a platform to “foreigners” in return. And management habits in some places are straight from North Korea.

      Defederating from an echo chamber doesn’t make your instance an echo chamber, unless you follow up by adopting the policies of the echo chamber you defederated from.

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      Personally I would like to be able to talk to people with different views, in a civil manner. But Lemmy.ml doesn’t seem to want that. If you post something that they don’t like (even if it’s a very moderate view and is expressed in a completely civil way) then they ban you. They seem to really hate moderate people.

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          I got instance banned for saying federal democratic republics are a form of democracy.

          Edit: I also don’t care. I never expected M-Ls to do anything besides M-L things and they don’t owe me anything.

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        Being banned means less of a problem for you - got a reason to ignore them and let them echo chamber however they want.

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      Eh… Lemmy is already a lot like reddit in the very beginning, just more extreme.

      I think a big problem with Lemmy is that even the large instances only have a few terminally online posters, so a lot of the communities get warped by those posters biases.

      Right now Hexbear is having a little internal conflict between the mods and some posters over the harassment of lgbtq and POC. The mods started out handing out temporary bans to offenders and then people started freaking out because no one was posting shit.

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      “Different world views” isn’t a problem, the problem is users espousing repugnent “world views” and being assholes.

      Pretending like we have to put up with other users’ repulsive, insane “ideas” and bullying behavior in our spaces is laughable. Bigots, fascists, and actual tankies can fuck off.

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        You probably have some views that are repugnent to me, and vice versa. That’s freedom of speech and political pluralism.

        being assholes.

        This though, I agree just ban that user.

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        One of the instances believes Hamas are freedom fighters and the state of Israel has no right to exist.

        The other believes the inverse.

        Who is the fascist with repugnant world views?

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          Hamas and the Netanyahu regime are bloodthirsty authoritarian regimes who both qualify as terrorists, given their recent exploits.

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            Dodged the question about Israels right to exist. Supports the Fascist state and condemned the freedom fighter.

            There is your answer folks.

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              Israel, as an idea to act as a haven after the 2nd world war for European Jewry, is dumb to begin with for a plethora of reasons at the time.

              That said there’re plenty of states through history that begin under dubious pretenses. Their citizenry doesn’t deserve wanton violence nor does its necessarily deserve wholesale dissolution.

              Israel does have a right to exist. The Israelis don’t have a right to take land forcibly from people and murder women and children.

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                Israel does have a right to exist. The Israelis don’t have a right to take land forcibly from people and murder women and children.

                But that is how Israel exists. How can it not have the right to do that and then have the right exist simultaneously?

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                  How can it not have the right to do that

                  Forcibly take land and murder civilians?

                  and then have the right exist simultaneously?

                  One can have a country and be fair and magnanimous with the people who were on the land before.

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              Isreal does not have a right to exist, Israelis do, but Isreal doesn’t. It only exists because the land it was on was forcibly taken from Palestinians. Edit: spelling

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                But Palestinians do not have the right to fight back against their occupiers, They should die quietly while everyone with the moral high-ground says what Israel doing is bad and proceeds to do nothing about it.

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                Israel, as an idea to act as a haven after the 2nd world war for European Jewry, is dumb to begin with for a plethora of reasons at the time.

                That said there’re plenty of states through history that begin under dubious pretenses. Their citizenry doesn’t deserve wanton violence nor does its necessarily deserve wholesale dissolution.

                Israel does have a right to exist. The Israelis don’t have a right to take land forcibly from people.

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          I love it when obvious trolls are obvious, Once I’ve blocked enough of them whomever is left are people I can actually have a conversation with.