I was just reading this post https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1gmv76n/is_reddit_going_to_remain_the_primary_space_for/ and many barely see the fediverse as an alternative and they seem to have a negative bias towards it. Super ironic when it comes to the self-hosting community. Yes, some instances are problematic, yes, some devs might have had problematic views. But it doesn’t really matter when it’s federated and FOSS. I think it’s clear-cut that the selfhosting community on Lemmy is a perfect alternative to reddit. Why is there such a negative bias?

  • Dariusmiles2123English
    31·
    5 days ago

    Yeah there are clearly some toxic people who won’t tolerate anything different than them. They can be leftists or rightists who are gonna hate you for whatever reason.

    I didn’t have this feeling on reddit to be honest.

    And it’s a shame because I’m censoring myself because of this on some subject where I could bring another point of view.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      51·
      5 days ago

      The people you are probably referring to exist on like, two instances. Everybody always ends up on the “.ml” ones for their first experience and is immediately horrified by the hardcore tankie content. That’s because those specific instances are run by actual Marxist-Leninists.

      • Dariusmiles2123English
        2·
        5 days ago

        Well it happened to me mostly in technology communities where my job as a police man in a country without too much corruption was giving me a different point of view than people who were seeing a corrupt government spying on them all the time.

    • BonerMan@ani.socialEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I haven’t seen a single “right” person on Lemmy, except when you count the Stalinists as right (wich they kinda are)

      And I hate that there are so many of them.

      • Dariusmiles2123English
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah to be honest it’s true that I’ve only seen lefties. I’m sometimes on the left side and sometimes on the right side, but it’s crazy how you can’t really express an opinion without being insulted or other things…

        • BonerMan@ani.socialEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          You can’t say anything without people hating on you. I’m a actual social Democrat and therefore the worst enemy of tankies and Stalinists.

          I don’t care what they say about me, I care when they are in charge of anything and ban people for other opinions, wich happens a lot.