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Thank You Everyone For Rejecting The Fascists/Bigots At The Door (self.general)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ConTheLibrarian to c/general

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After years of reddit/twitter/facebook propping up fascism/bigotry with algorithms & bots I'm honestly surprised and relieved to be in an online space that clearly rejects their ideology.

They can have reddit/facebook/twitter. AFAIC the only way to reach some of these people is to leave them alone long enough to realize on their own.

Lemmy.world admins are doing an amazing job dealing with everything. Their recent decision to defederate from exploding heads (or whatever its called) really goes to show that they're in it for the right reasons.

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[–] meldroc 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love how taking out the Trump trash happens so much faster here!

Over in the old place, getting the admins to do something about right-wing toxicity was like pulling teeth. Flagrant TOS-violating bigotry, hate & disinfo would fester for weeks, months, years while the admins yawned

At the same time, if people started talking about punching Nazis, the bans and post deletions would start flying instantly, with admins threatening mods & threatening to ban entire subs if they didn't delete Nazi-punching posts fast enough.

Gee, you think those admins were biased?

[–] doomer 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

with admins threatening mods & threatening to ban entire subs if they didn’t delete Nazi-punching posts fast enough.

Oh hey there, beholdthemasterrace subscriber! That poor mod.

[–] meldroc 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey!!!

Is beholdthemasterrace migrating to Fediverse land? I'd love to find them over here!

[–] doomer 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure. I stopped following it awhile ago, over half of the comments in some of the posts were brigaders.

[+] BigToe -85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait why are you glorifying banning "trump trash", free speech should definitely not include banning someone for their political opinions. I am voting trump next election hands down.

[–] meldroc 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't get to agree to disagree when your political agenda involves shitting on people's rights.