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. > https://lemmy.world/post/694810?scrollToComments=true

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What does free speech have to do with it? Free speech right guarantees that you won’t be prosecuted by the government for your words. It doesn’t apply to private communications.

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      1 year ago

      That is true but social media people have collectively made up “freedom of speech rights” on social media without understanding how the technology or the law works at all.

      Terms of Service are all we have online, unless the government is hosting the platform.

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      1 year ago

      Free speech as a law, maybe, but many people like myself view it as an ideal.