there are right wing instances?
I’m not entirely shocked. They get kicked off mainstream sites regularly, they need somewhere for their echo chamber to exist.
Ah, so hilarious chaos IS a right wing instance?
Let’s take a look at HC’s local front page right now:
• First post is pro-Elon, uses “woke” as a derogatory term
• Second post is anti-science transphobia
• Third post is the same story as the first post, says a “hate crime” was committed by the “woke” person, article is on Breitbart [EDIT: fixed a typo I made here]
• Fourth post is ok, fairly normal, but posted by an avid poster for the site named Donald Musk
• Fifth post follows the suit of the fourth post
• Sixth post is transphobia for sports, article is on Breitbart
• Seventh post follows the suit of the fourth and fifth post
• Eighth post is by a news bot, headline says Israel is gonna keep doing what they do
• Ninth post is ok, just a banal joke
• Tenth post paints Tesla as a victim of violence, article is on Breitbart
• Eleventh post is saying most voters prefer moderate Democrats over “radical” AOC & Sanders, article is on Breitbart
• Twelfth post is anti-science transphobia
• Thirteenth post is by a news bot about Canada’s Carney’s plan (I don’t know enough about Canada’s politics to know where this guy stands on things)
• Fourteenth post is by a news bot about Anti-Trump rallies, headline seems politically neutral
• Fifteenth post is anti-science, pro-Trump, COVID conspiracy theories, article is on Breitbart
• Sixteenth post is ok, just a joke
• Seventeenth post is by an admin trying to save face by soliciting mods for a token leftwing community on their site, the only volunteer is one of the above posters of anti-science transphobia
• Eighteenth post is in German about some technology?
• Nineteenth post is by news bot about US attacking Yemen
Yep, sounds about right. Thank you for your service!
Thank you for doing the dirty work
I’ve been completely unable to tell if they’re right wing or just a bunch of edgy 14 year olds, and I’ve been kinda reluctant to block them till I figure out which
Does it matter? If the edgy 14 year olds aren’t contributing anything you consider worth your time then block them anyway.
Oh it definitely doesn’t matter, I’ve been ready to block them since the second post I saw from that instance. It’s just morbid curiosity stringing me along at this point lmao
Yes, we should really be asking ourselves if it’s high rung or low
The first “couple”? I see the porn subs that we defederate because the admin doesn’t want to risk legal liability. There’s the one tanky instance that they defederated before later deciding not to defederate tanky instances. There’s the spam Reddit resharing instance. There’s the two instances mentioned in this LW post, which seems to indicate it’s about illegal content, not political alignment. That just leaves exploding heads, which was right-wing, but gave up hosting at all after everyone defedded them, and hilariouschaos.com. That one, I don’t know, so I’ll take your word that it’s right-wing. But that only leaves one, not a couple.
EH & HC (considered by many to be EH under a new name) are the two I was referring to. Tanky subs were an afterthought on my part.
Im surprised the stupid fucks can still operate a computer/phone let a lone running an instance.
Tech bros are majority magats…
I’ve worked at FAANGs. Most of the people I worked with there didn’t subscribe to western politics. Just my experience.
People are still afraid to publicly (internally?) support Republicans, even though our CEO has endorsed them and we’ve hired some right-wing politicians for various roles
(That or truly very few people are Republican at FAANG)
The fact that you don’t know about them says the system is working.
I think it’s important to downvote them and even make them feel unwelcome. You can’t let Nazis and white supremacists in your communities because any community that doesn’t kick out Nazis will eventually find itself overrun by Nazis fleeing communities that kick them out.
You don’t need to argue or make a fuss, but make sure to downvote anyone who doesn’t believe all people are born equal and that people have a right to choose what to do and who to love.
On top of that, I think we should be clear about what we don’t like. Right wing isn’t itself evil, but low rung right wing ideology will send us back to the dark ages. As would low rung left wing ideology. We must strive to be better, entertaining only high rung ideas in conversation, in order to elevate our collective understanding
People downvote me all the time and I just think “well they’re wrong, I’ve laid out my argument and they can’t refute it”. So I imagine Nazis feel the same way when you downvote them.
Edit: case in point
Imagine being able to justify yourself by finding commonality with Nazis.
That’s… not what they are saying. They are critiquing the strategy. If nazzis and I agree 1+1 makes 2 that doesn’t mean we’re all Nazzis.
I don’t understand why so many struggle with addressing the message and are so eager to shoot the messenger. It’s weird but really common on Lemmy.
We aren’t allowed to critique strategy or work together to better ourselves or our plans with outside views that allow us to see and adjust to match an ever changing world…
That would be so bad for my social media feed. The algorithm would have to completely relearn what I like and that would be a hassle.
Using one example to make the rule is bad logic.
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I don’t even know what your point is.
Okay, let me try and help. You said this:
If nazzis and I agree 1+1 makes 2 that doesn’t mean we’re all Nazzis.
Now, we’re going to count many examples you used to illustrate your point:
I counted one, and this was it right here:
If nazzis and I agree 1+1 makes 2 that doesn’t mean we’re all Nazzis.
Using a single example to make a point of comparison is dumb. Because one could just as easily say that I breathe air, and similarly, so do hamsters, therefore- I must be a hamster.
Demonstrably, this is untrue. And it’s a dumb argument to make. And it’s not the argument I made. I simply said that calling upon a similarity shared with Nazis isn’t going to make the point one would probably wish to make.
(And the plural of Nazi is “Nazis.” Don’t be afraid to spell their name correctly. It’s not for the purpose of showing respect to them, it’s showing respect to the person that has to read what you’re saying)
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He means that the nazis wont give a samb about the downvotes and that it would be better to be clear to their faces.
That’s what I thought I was doing.
.ml hmmmm
Edit: Actually with the age of your account that probably doesn’t mean much
Maybe, I dunno… some self reflection to understand WHY people downvote you all the time, might improve something about you?
I just scrolled my post history and picked an example. Like why is this downvoted? It’s literally just an answer to OP on how to do what they want https://lemmy.ml/comment/18043111
You have roughly the same amount of downvotes as OP, based on context folks were probably reflexively downvoting because it’s an AI discussion.
The fastest block in the west 🤠
what are some right wing instances?
truth social
i’m not downvoting because i’m a tankie, but because misrepresenting them as right wing helps literally nobody
I think it helps everyone, to know that leftism isn’t represented by those dorks. I’ve met lots of people who thought communism was the USSR, and that’s why they were opposed to it. That’s bad. We should fix it.
that’s like tankies or something
I do think anyone on Lemmy is probably smarter than anyone on Reddit. I was browsing a conservative sub today and while they were very few comments, most of them disagreed with the general direction of the Trump administration.
I don’t think user intelligence has as much to to with it as foreign interference and astroturfing campaigns, since its a larger platform
And the bots. Don’t forget the bots.
r/conservative is also notorious for shadow banning and banning anyone who expresses wrongthink. They’ve only got a few hundred real posters left. Everyone else is a bot or paid troll.
at least there are some of them here, i havent seen them yet whatsoever
(I even feel like its way more progressive but also more “radical/chaotics” here and there since the communities are still more niche and therefore weighting feels off)
would love to read some “frustration” every now and then to see how my facebook grandparents would argue for example, lol
Because obduration is just a much less useful school than evocation.
