I am exploring Lemmy right now and what I see is very worrying to me, but I also don’t understand wth is going on with some instances here. I don’t know if it’s smart to post this, but here we go.

I am partial to Marxist and anarchist ideology, but lemmygrad looks completely unhinged to me. Is it a parody? Some content is fine and some of it is insane.

On the other hand, beehaw looked super inviting from the outside and I even applied to join them. Then, I looked closer and that instance’s moderation looks totalitarian and rigid in the other way. (I understand why they blocked lemmygrad though…)

I’m seeing this impact other communities in different ways and there’s some kind of witch hunt happening on both sides…

I want to interact with people that can respect each-other and that can hold open-minded discussions about any topics without devolving into some tribal war.

  • DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    FWIW, I don’t think there are any ‘far right’, or really any right-leaning Lemmy servers at this point. None that I’ve seen, at least.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, hopefully it stays that way, but with popularity it’s likely we’ll get all types. I suppose some asshole will come along and setup “christo.fascist.world” or something at some point.

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          Yeah you’re probably right. But the good thing is with lemmy the “community” can decide what is acceptable behaviour and what not. If the admin of an instance finds another instance abusive they can just defederate it. And if the users of this instance don’t like that the other one got de-federated they can just switch. (or at least that’s my basic understanding so far…)

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            1 year ago

            True enough, but that doesn’t stop people like that from having a place to congregate, and then nothing else is stopping them from creating logins on different servers and brigading other communities from there. There’s no way around that though with the Fediverse and Lemmy being designed how it is.

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      there is one. backchodi. Its a hindu nationalist (and hence islamaphobic, racist, casteist, queerphobic instance)