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I am exploring Lemmy right now and what I see is very worrying to me, but I also don't understand wth is going on with some instances here. I don't know if it's smart to post this, but here we go.

I am partial to Marxist and anarchist ideology, but lemmygrad looks completely unhinged to me. Is it a parody? Some content is fine and some of it is insane.

On the other hand, beehaw looked super inviting from the outside and I even applied to join them. Then, I looked closer and that instance's moderation looks totalitarian and rigid in the other way. (I understand why they blocked lemmygrad though...)

I'm seeing this impact other communities in different ways and there's some kind of witch hunt happening on both sides...

I want to interact with people that can respect each-other and that can hold open-minded discussions about any topics without devolving into some tribal war.

Edit: I realize my post is not a simple question... Let me clarify some thoughs:
-I do not mean beehaw is far-right. The just seem strict and that's their right.
-I worry profiles can "inherit" the bad reputation of instances they interacted with and get pre-emptively banned.
-People are used to reddit and tend to centralize. Is the "just switch community" really an option?
-English is far from my first language and I might've judged things too quickly/harshly so take my criticism with a grain of salt.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm also new here so I cannot really answer your question. But are you saying Beehaw leans far right? Because I thought they wanted to foster a very welcoming and supportive environment (even disabling downvotes) and I thought they even blocked some instances which are too right for them?

[–] Chraccoon 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

nonono, It's not that. I haven't lurked there for very long, but it seemed that they were trigger-happy on bans from what I gathered. I don't have examples at the moment and the modlog feature doesn't seem to work well..

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

Ah got it, ok sorry I misunderstood you. But yes, this sounds believable. As I understand they have a very clear vision what is wrong with social media and believe that only very strict moderation can fix these problems. If this is right or wrong I cannot really say...

[–] Chraccoon 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It definitely is an interesting and there might be some merit to it. I'm just worried. Let's say I post in lemmygrad for any reason and then comment something unrelated and neutral on a beehaw post. Will I be silenced because of that first instance's bad reputation? Maybe I'm thinking too much.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good question. But I guess only the beehaw admins know the answer to that. But from my understanding so far they would only silence you if you actively spread negativity - but I might be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn’t seem like they’ve been doing things like that at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Beehaw doesn't lean far right at all. They blocked lemmygrad for being authoritarian (i.e. pro North Korea), not for being on the left.

From one of Beehaw's stickied posts: "We want to explicitly make a nice little corner of the internet where we can hide from racist, sexist, ableist, colonialist, homophobic, transphobic, and other forms of hateful speech."

[–] gorkette 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't agree with the removal of being able to downvote. Both up and downvoting serves a purpose. Would you support a community that only allowed downvotes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I also think downvotes have an important purpose, but I see how the downvote button can be easily abused.

[–] DarraignTheSane 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

FWIW, I don't think there are any 'far right', or really any right-leaning Lemmy servers at this point. None that I've seen, at least.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

there is one. backchodi. Its a hindu nationalist (and hence islamaphobic, racist, casteist, queerphobic instance)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can find some in beehaw’s list of blocked instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DarraignTheSane 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, hopefully it stays that way, but with popularity it's likely we'll get all types. I suppose some asshole will come along and setup "christo.fascist.world" or something at some point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah you're probably right. But the good thing is with lemmy the "community" can decide what is acceptable behaviour and what not. If the admin of an instance finds another instance abusive they can just defederate it. And if the users of this instance don't like that the other one got de-federated they can just switch. (or at least that's my basic understanding so far...)

[–] DarraignTheSane 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

True enough, but that doesn't stop people like that from having a place to congregate, and then nothing else is stopping them from creating logins on different servers and brigading other communities from there. There's no way around that though with the Fediverse and Lemmy being designed how it is.