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.

  • ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    17·
    1 year ago

    True but have you looked at the vote scores in those communities?

    On reddit they were cesspools but on lemmy they’re laughing stocks. The only posts they can get above zero are antithetical ones pointing out the criminality and incompetence of trump/republicans.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      If the internet existed in Germany in the 1930’s, I wouldn’t take much solace in the fact that the fascists are getting downvoted. They’re getting into power and every day they spread more and more dehuminization and hate.

      On reddit they became cesspools because the admins refused to do anything about their fascism, so I don’t have a lot of trust for the admins of lemmy.

          • ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            121·
            1 year ago

            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!