Welcome to the Lemmy Drama community!
This is a place to share and enjoy drama across the fediverse. Grab your popcorn, and dive in!
Rules:
1. Don't bring your own drama.
If you are a part of the drama, don't post it here. We're here to enjoy drama, not see it brought to this community.
2. Be civil.
No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. No ongoing drama.
if there’s been a comment in the past 3 days, wait until it’s settled down.
5. No interacting with the drama you find here.
That means no upvotes, no downvotes, and no commenting in the original thread.
6. Keep the drama focused on Lemmy and/or the fediverse only.
If it’s Kbin or Mastodon drama, it must be a quality effort post.
7. Don’t piss on the popcorn.
Inciting brigades is an automatic ban.
8. Mod Perogative
We reserve the right to enforce the rules however we like.
Been on the lemmygrad for four years. Was banned simply for my alternative opinion that a guy who was rejected by a girl should exclude her from his life if he retains feelings for her. Didn't break any rules, but the idiot in the moderators didn't stop it. I used to think lemmygrad was a cool place for leftists. But it turns out it's an echo chamber for online morons. I regret that I ever defended this place.
Everywhere is an echo chamber for people. Lemmy is generally an echo chamber for very politically Left people, but there are people in the Fediverse that are on the opposite end of the political compass as well.
The internet is kinda like the American Justice System:
Anything you say can and will be used against you
Most of the time there is no real justice
Lots of people complain about it, but nobody has actually been able to fix it
I think a lot depends on the moderators. There are normal ones who give freedom of speech and opinion. Punishing only for breaking the rules or real thrash posting. In such cases it is hard to call the community an echo chamber. And there are some assholes, like on lemmygrad, who will ban you forever for the slightest deviation of your opinion from their own. In such a case, the community is doomed to degradation. As we can clearly see from my ban without any explanation, respect and fair punishment for the real rulebreakers.
I've only been here for a few months, but my impression is that lemmy isn't "a" place, it's a bunch of places that connect. Quality of moderation varies a lot; you don't judge humanity by the worst people you meet, same applies here
My bad. I was of course referring to Lemmygrad, on which I was banned and which has become disgusting echo chamber full of libs and hypocrites. I wasn't talking about the whole lemmy space.
Lemmygrad isn't full of libs, it's full of shills, bots, and a handful of useful idiots spreading authoritarian propaganda to undermine democracies and enable the Kremlin's barbaric war in Ukraine.
Lemmygrad has always been a toxic shithole. As soon as my instance updated to 0.19, I blocked them entirely. Lemmy is a much better place now.
Sadly. And there is no alternative for leftists. At least I don't know about it. I guess I'll have to stay on lemmyworld.
Lemmy itself is overwhelmingly left, I don't feel like you need any specific instance to be in a solid majority.
No idea what you posted, but the replies make your comments sound pretty toxic, so... 🤷♂️