I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I “surprisingly haven’t found any bigotry.”
I’m wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it’s rare, my guess is that even though it’s decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I’m guessing it’s easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.
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I’ve seen a few people, here and there, trying to test the limits and finding very quickly that they’re not going to get very far.
I’m an admin for a relatively busy instance, so I see all of the bigotry, and there is more of it than I’m comfortable with :\
There’s a lot of bigots out there that have moved over from reddit.
The more people, the more bigots in between.
Maybe that’s why I’m enjoying lemmy more: No access to reports and removed comments.
It’s interesting, we’ve got blahaj.zone itself, and even though it doesn’t have as many users as our lemmy instance, we’re lucky if we see a report every couple of days over there.
The microblogging fediverse is more aggressively opposed to queerphobic bigots I think, so they never get a chance to take root over there, but here on the threadiverse, lots of them fly under the radar of admins that aren’t the targets of their bigotry
So far, I haven’t encountered anything super negative. Everyone on the instance I picked as my “home” has been extremely friendly. Because of that, I usually just check local activity.
I do, occasionally, check all instances. Even what I see is mostly friendly.
I’ve been lucky, I guess.
Ooooohh we’ve got plenty. lol
One thing about the Fediverse is its a little less “singular” so to speak. People spread out a little more, and you get fewer bigger places where a whole lot of people mingle.
The fascist kids and the tankie kids both have Instances of their own, fairly heavily defederated with a lot of the rest. They’re about as pleasant as you’d expect.
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A comment on my other account got brigaded by tankies a while ago. Was told to “fuck off, liberal”
But then that guy got banned from the instance, and everything was good.
Hi, I’m not in in the know. What’s a tankie? Pardon my ignorance.
the leftist equivalent of an alt-right person i guess
Plenty, since the overwhelming majority of it is a massive leftist circle jerk that isn’t fond of people dissenting.
You are confused. What you are doing isn’t “dissenting” so much as it’s spouting absolute bullocks. You are doing the online equivalent of smearing your shit on the walls because you once heard someone else say that’s a valid form of expression.
You keep posting the same ignorant bullshit over and over again, even after people explain just how ignorant your logic really is.
You can only claim “leftist brigading” when you are able to respond to your critics with verifiable facts to support your position. Until then, you are talking absolute bullshit.
Lmao talk about verifiable facts when you losers aren’t just spouting whatever unhinged garbage your propaganda networks feed you
Bigotry? Not yet. Toxicity? Quite a bit.
The first big example was the reaction of quite a few people when beehaw defederated shitjustworks and lemmy.world, people called beehaw users and their admins all kind of names, sometimes even in communities and by users who were not on either instance.
Then Threads. There are a lot of users who think people who don’t agree with everyone defederating Threads before they even support federation are barely even human, and anyone who questions it, will be called all kinds of names. Just pointing that out gets you downvoted.
Then there are the usual people who can’t handle other people having different opinions/experiences, I recently had to defend that my Reddit experience (when I use it which is very rare now) is barely different from before, and no, it did not turn to shit and no, it’s not full of bots, and no, the quality of discussion is still high because I curated my subs.
On Reddit, I would unsub from communities behaving like that (e.g. I decided to leave /r/Fantasy when I realized that not hating Rings of Power or the WoT show is not behaviour the sub deems acceptable), on Lemmy, communities don’t have enough of an identity for that yet, so for now I just block some users.
