The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It's absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn't be allowed to continue.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Well said, I agree with all of that. I'm considerably more to the left as well, that's part of why I hate lemmy.ml, because they're preventing actual good growth and movement in that direction.

Hopefully Mbin or some other one of the new forks/platforms takes off soon. I'm ready to move if necessary, I love the idea of a healthy Fediverse and I hope some day I can recommend it to friends instead of being too embarrassed to admit I use it because of all the propaganda.

[–] assassin_aragorn 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's something I've recently realized. They think people dislike them because they're leftist, but that has very little to do with it. Some of their harshest critics are from the left.

They have no idea it's because of their authoritarian simping, and every time you call them out on it, they deflect. Frankly they more strongly support fascist regimes than their criticizers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I think the paid shills know what's going on, they're told to act like leftists and probably don't actually hold those beliefs. They might be brainwashed to think the CCP/Kremlin is good.

So in my opinion they pretend people are "upset that they're leftist" in order to avoid people focusing on their actual motives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure. I personally am waiting for PieFed to come along. They seem to know what's important to address and also have some good ideas how to tackle it.

I'm 100% ready to support that and focus my engagement there. I'm pretty sure just changing the software codebase isn't changing too much... But I'd like some more independence from the few people currently doing everything.

And that's also what I've done. I haven't recommended Lemmy to friends and family, yet. And I've refrained from running my own instance, too. Despite having the server ready for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thanks I'll keep an eye on it. Sad to be eager to abandon ship already, but it's not surprising that the fediverse will have some growing pains. The core value and promise of healthy social media is still there and I love it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean the great thing about this architecture is, we don't need to abandon ship. I'm deliberately waiting for something that will be compatible with it. And it'll be the same community. Just a different software with a few much needed things on top.

And I'm kind of passionate about it in the first place, because I like this place. And we have to pay attention not to fall out with each other about details. Sometimes it's just not easy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ah thanks for explaining. It would be fantastic to export settings and connect to current communities instead of starting from scratch