The more I use lemmy, the more it begins to just feel like all the same problems reddit had. It has the same problems with major communities having far left moderation standards that only apply to the right, the same hive mind users that just spam the same tired out leftist talking points over and over while refusing anything close to an actual discussion.
The only upsides are that downvotes aren’t used to punish you site wide, and the handful of non-leftist instances that exist, though they always end up defederated by all the major instances, effectively making them poor spaces for general discussion.
So what are your thoughts? Is this just the “more like under new management” from megamind? Is there hope for it to become a decent platform for everyone, not just the left?
Edit: yeah, it’s just as bad. Fuck the retarded admins and fuck the left
Lol nice lies pal. Maybe go pester all the leftist spammers in my responses that don’t even come close to any of the standards you’re laying out. If you’re only interested in jerking yourself off, there’s dozens of other communities where all your pinko pals are already started. I have no issues with debating in good faith, I just see no reason to give any benefit of the doubt to obvious bad actors who refuse to extend good faith themselves, such as yourself.
And this is why you are downvoted and ridiculed. You have zero self awareness or critical understanding. Your insults or attempts to ridicule mean literally nothing because people need to believe you have something worthwhile to say. And so far, all you are doing is projecting and spewing made up talking points. Make no mistake, I couldn’t give two shits what you end up doing or if you stay on the fediverse at all. I would love conservatives that actually had self awareness and could debate real conservative talking points, not trumpican vitriol. So far you are just another angry trumpican spewing out unverified talking points. And at no point does that kind of hate deserve a safe space, ever. Later
I wonder what this person thinks a “leftist” is?
I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt as much as possible. But I dont believe they really think all that much on their own based on their responses.
In what fucking universe pal. Because most people don’t consider brazenly dishonest character attacks to fall under “benefit of the doubt”
You’re not exactly the paragon of impartial argument in this thread my man. Anyone willing to read your post for anything besides laughing at your expense after your tirades here is doing you a solid.
You’ve got no evidence, no perspective, really nothing but yelling at the internet because youve got a minority position and don’t like it.
If you’ve got those things, trot them out, bro.
Edit: you have some sanely and thoughtfully written comments further down (that I would still disagree with), but the bad ones sure floated to the top.
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I mean, what do you want? This post isn’t exactly an opener to some great venture in dialectics as you crafted it. It looks like whining instead of discourse, people are saying that to you (albeit coarsely) and you’re biting your thumb at them. I guess I wouldn’t do anything too different if the shoe were on the other foot… but still, this isn’t about some random user or me, it’s about you mostly. You had a pretty fair amount of actual discussion with @Shit but otherwise real substance is pretty sparse.
But anyway sure let’s go. I’m new to the fediverse and my very first post was in this group. On reddit, all I saw was back breaking efforts to make conservatives feel safe: every conservative sub I dropped into was one comment insta-ban for out-group opinions, almost as bad as r/sino. T_D lived a full and festering life despite breaking sitewide rules about brigading and bringing national notoriety to the platform. r/conservative was quick to set up safe spaces for approved and flaired users only to comment. Even r/askconservatives was quick to deliver a kick in the nuts if you get to pointed. The only thing I saw, even in r/politics which I think is about as lefty as it gets, was gratuitous downvoting. To the point, I think there just aren’t as many people on the internet that hold hardline conservative beliefs. There may be some discussion to be had by people like me who don’t mind playing the devil’s advocate, but by and large I think when you are online you’re in the minority. In strangely fitting way, that’s the position a conservative viewpoint puts minority positions into in the real world and it just doesn’t seem very fun when nobody wants to tolerate you beyond acknowledging that you exist. Maybe your experience is different than mine: that would be the evidence and perspective that makes this a discussion worth having. I still kinda wish this was all about a topic that wasn’t a meta topic.
For not wanting to work at social media, you are definitely exhibiting some true grit in responding to basically every comment, lol.
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I personally don’t use the term; from where I sit, I see two kinds of people: Those who want to see America lead the world into the 21st century, and those who will burn the world down if they’re not allowed to drag it back to the 18th century.
Which are you?
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Lol keep up the bullshit pal, maybe you’ll earn yourself some fake internet points with it.
I just pity you. You would have better luck on Twitter or reddit with other trumpicans. No one with intelligence gives a shit about internet points, so im giving you an upvote to maybe make you feel better.
Lol keep up the bullshit pal, maybe you’ll earn yourself some fake internet points with it.
You should listen to the people you are trying to argue against. They know more than you do.