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This comment was in a post about a guy who openly spilled secrets then got fired.
https://www.reddit.com/r/golf/comments/1dynric/rip_to_the_augusta_ama_guy_yesterday_who_was_not/
It was a Wild West but I'm not sure the Lemmy community would have liked it much - there was a lot of content in the "offensive to everyone" category and people generally didn't mind as long as it was contained in its own subreddits. That doesn't seem to be the attitude of "kids these days".
Not to mention that one time they made a woman a CEO just to ban the fat people hate sub because it was making the whole site look bad and then fired her to pin the decision on her just being a bitch feminist
Bruh the Ellen Pao hate was fucking insane. People like to pretend that Reddit got worse post-Trump or gamergate, but lbr the deplorable behaviour was always there, it just wasn't "political" yet.
The big Lemmy instances are constantly inundated with posts to defederate from unscrupulous instances, which to me seems like a stronger version of siloing off content than what early reddit was like.
Lemmy has recreated forums with additional steps is how I put it. Nothing to do with the tech but fragmentation. My front page is just 10 or so different posts reposted in some form or another 5 servers each with their own version of the sub.
Seems to me it's almost entirely aligned with ideology for most folks, which...idk is kinda a feature?
Most of the calls I've seen to defederate haven't been because of an instance's content, but rather because of an instance's users being the problem.
E.g. hexbear getting the boot during the period where some of its users thought it was hilarious to brigade other instances and spam giant emojis of a well endowed pig shitting on itself.
remember when space dicks would get front page. or imgoingtohellforthis
RIP I_RAPE_CATS :c
Was in a couple of those offensive subs.
Opieandandthony Cumtown
Those subs had some hilariously talented shitposters.
I agree, people on the internet sometimes come across as selfish. The problem is that it always is about if they like it or not and only care about their morals.
However, it might be different for lemmy.
Spoiler Alert: It's not. The same people who want to silence anyone they disagree with are here as well. As Lemmy, really the Fediverse, continues to grow the purity tests and censorship will grow proportionally.