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Thatβs something I noticed when I joined Mastodon as well. When people are in control for the sake of community and not profit, things tend to be better in this regard. Let crazies federate with crazies.
NGL I derive some joy seeing maga/conservative/fascist communities getting all their misinformation downvoted to hell while the only positively voted posts are about the crimes & failures of trump and republicans in general.
I don't want them banned. This is much better.
They don't learn though. While you may derive pleasure from their ignorance, there are some who may get sucked into their worldview who may not otherwise be. Free speech doesn't require a community to put up with their nonsense.
I don't derive pleasure from their ignorance. From that I derive migraines. It's specifically their failure to gain traction here on lemmy that I must admit to a degree of schadenfreude.
But for real, I've lost dear friends to this movement. At this point I've simply recognized that the only way to save those people is to be patient and keep an open door in case they do realize they're being duped. It's that or drive them further into the cult.
Thankfully lemmy is not putting up with their nonsense. I don't actually care if they get banned or not. I can only hope that seeing that their rhetoric only trends in spaces known to be bot-ridden and algo-driven will cause the most rational of them to wake up.
Hear hear.
What does free speech have to do with it? Free speech right guarantees that you won't be prosecuted by the government for your words. It doesn't apply to private communications.
That is true but social media people have collectively made up "freedom of speech rights" on social media without understanding how the technology or the law works at all.
Terms of Service are all we have online, unless the government is hosting the platform.
Free speech as a law, maybe, but many people like myself view it as an ideal.
That's not an ideal, that's lunacy.
Fuck censorship.
Only government can enforce censorship.