Political Memes

I know conservatives that are alright. But they drank the koolaid...

I think a lot of them need an antidote more than exile. But it's hard to find it for them..

They could be allies still.

I too tried Voat way back in the day, part of a small Reddit exodus when they were removing Snowden articles in worldnews without explanation (back when the user base of Reddit still cared about moderator transparency), and I learnt quickly that if a platform advertises itself as "censorship free" or something along those lines, what they really mean is "we thrive on hate speech here."

And after a few more years of checking out Reddit alternatives, I started to realise that basically all of them were "censorship free" and tailor made for trolls and bigots from banned Reddit communities like fatpeoplehate and jailbait.

By the time I heard about Lemmy, even though I didn't get the impression that it was just another Voat, I was also kinda disillusioned about ever finding a good Reddit alternative at that point. So I didn't bother trying.

And it has been a very pleasant surprise to find out how left wing it is here. That reputation is actually what made me try Bluesky before coming here and if I had known, I would've come here sooner. Finally an alternative that isn't just r/conservative - the website. And not just that, a platform that isn't full of 'centrists' that spend more time worrying about making sure the left wingers don't swear too much, then worrying about the right wingers taking people's rights away.

Fuuuuuuuck, that's a site I haven't thought of in a long time.

From my experience, people with computer knowledge are usually more progressive

Let me tell you about a time long ago, when it was harder to get on the internet and no one had smartphones and the internet was populated by users who were a whole lot more intelligent and reasonable than what we see today.

I was there. I can verify that the abnormal insanity we see in our politics today began around the same time everyone started walking around with the internet in their hands.

I don't struggle too hard to empathize with Nazis that have to rent off Liberal spaces.

Totally agree with you in relation to groupthink and it's the main reason I have them disabled too. I don't like my opinion of a comment to be influenced by others before I've even finished reading it.

I like that lemmy lets you see the upvotes and downvotes separately rather than just an aggregate like Reddit has. It's hard to tell when you see something has 1 or zero votes what people generally think but it might turn out that you have 100 upvotes and 100 downvotes and it just happens to add up to zero but you hit on something that's actually deeply controversial. That info is nice to have.