The Fediverse can only grow, I'm glad that it mostly seems to work the only problem I have is that on smaller instances you can't see the history of non-hosted communities as well as you have to add each community to the instance what is hard to find without using certain communities or just checking another instance.
I mean, still. I associate them with the games more than anything. And that’s definetily not the kind of look i’d want out of a community that originated specifically because they DIDN’T want to just follow the herd and use what’s popular regardless of how shitty it gets.
Idk, crusading against common myths is something that’s pretty hot these days. Stuff like:
Christopher Columbus didn’t actually discover America, and he was actually kind of an asshat
Bell didn’t invent the telephone, he was simply the first to patent and subsequently litigate
"Frankenstein" is the name of the scientist, not the monster
Many modern tropes about Christian Hell stem from a 17th century political satire novel
Crusading for truth in easily verifiable matters feels very on-brand for the kind of people who use Lemmy. In that light, reclaiming a negative term that’s only negative because of a false premise to describe ourselves doesn’t sound so bad. At worst, we become a little insufferable as we have to introduce the term with a “well, ackshually”, which a lot of us would probably do anyway.
It’s inevitable whenever there are mods. Sometimes people just clash but in my experience I always just remind myself ‘who are the types of people who would voluntarily want to be a mod?’ and then I go outside and speak with actual humans.
The mods on /c/worldnews actively put a thumb on the scale when it comes to subjects like the Israeli-Palstinian conflict. If you don’t follow the party line, your comment is subject to removal. That “No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc” rule does a lot of work. It’s not worth getting in a fight over, but I was a little sore that my comment about taking Hamas’ casualty statistics with a grain of salt would be prudent was deleted, while downright hateful comments towards Israel were left standing.
The .world admins have always been corrupt and they’re doing it on purpose to ensure the internet remains censored and that Americans never have a free place to converse about what they need to converse about.
I did on reddit, but that’s because reddit mods are power-hungry shitstains who will argue that your comment is aimed at the lgbt community, until you direct them to the fact that you are part of the lgbt community, and then suddenly they change their narrative and it’s not, it’s just aimed at women, when I point out that the comment was about my negative experiences with a childhood male ‘doctor’, and then it becomes “I’m not going to argue anymore [because I’ve run out of bullshit reasons to veil the fact that I support this kind of abuse of power as I draw parallels from my mod experience and your pain being valid hurts my microscopic pp and massive ego]”
I’ve had a few run-ins but that was one specifically was fucking wild. Give people a bit of fake power and they lose their fucking minds.
The way Lemmy mods hand out bans, not for fucking long.
People wag a finger at me for vulgarity and bluntness. But I’ve found zero safety in being polite, casual, and relaxed. Most recently, one joke about The Bee Movie in a silly playlist screenshot community ended two bewildered interactions later, with the mod instructing me to “die mad.” To anyone innocent enough to insist this sort of thing can only happen if I’m underplaying some intolerable behavior on my part - I have abundant receipts. This has been a problem long enough (on the other site) that smoke without fire deserved documentation.
And the absolute worst spaces on modern social media are ones demanding “be nice” while doing nothing when some asshole spits the worst thing they can think of over nothing. I’m not about to be deeply offended by some childmove like opining about my family because I didn’t find an argument compelling. But I cannot fucking stand being held from so much as literally replying “yo mama,” for fear of punishment from some I-don’t-care-who-started-it troll-enabling goody-two-shoes, only to find out reports went fucking nowhere.
Mods! If I’m not allowed to call someone a bastard - YOU had goddamn well better get rid of those bastards. Enforce the rule or throw it out!
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