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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by queue@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/140vbey/launching_rlemmymigration_what_communities_have/jmxnzsh/?context=1

Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no... Well I really really hope that this is in the past with the new users. Nothing but unpleasant experiences with Tankies.

[–] alex@agora.nop.chat 30 points 1 year ago

I suspect most of them sit on lemmygrad. This is the beauty of instances and federation - nuance! Some users might be assholes on some instance communities, but if they're not maintained in a way people are happy with, they can splinter off and make a better place. For instance, Beehaw can maintain a gaming community which is set up to be safe and avoid bullshit gamergate stuff, and they can call it "Gaming" because it's not the only instance that can host one of those.

The issue with default subs and subs with obvious names on Reddit is that they build a certain personality and approach, foster certain views or don't moderate well, and then new people come in and amplify that because that's how they've seen the interaction working before. In that case, the best you can do is make a secondary one that has more strict rules - /r/truegaming, /r/games etc etc - which are difficult to grow because they're unlinked. Being on beehaw means it's part of the beehaw umbrella, so has to abide by the rules of the instance. Kind of a neat system.