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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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[–] ConTheLibrarian 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you be happier if it was only upvotes? I don't follow your logic at all.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I just don't want fascism/bigotry to be allowed on this instance to begin with.

[–] ConTheLibrarian 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the inclination to want admins to ban them... but not only is that unnecessary (at this point in time!) it's also a far, far weaker rebuke than the entire community refusing to let them trend.

We saw how on reddit, banning subs simply resulted in them making new ones.

At least on lemmy there is visible evidence that no matter what they call their community it will be rejected by the lemmy community as a whole.

At least here's hoping!

[–] Cannacheques 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I have faith that a level headed discussion is usually enough to overcome most hatred

[–] antik 6 points 1 year ago

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