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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (30 children)

True, but it also reminds us what happens when someone on Lemmy gets downvoted, reported and banned for having their own valud standpoint, which is not accepted by the majority of us.

We should keep in mind that we are prone to making the same mistake.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    We are, but at the same time having parallel communities helps with that

    !world@lemmy.world mods are regularly featured in !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which leads more and more people to alternatives like !world@quokk.au

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    We are, but at the same time having parallel communities helps with that

    Does it though? Seems to me that we just end up with two echo chamber communities where there's no cross pollination of ideas and no challenges to our viewpoints. It's good that people still have a place to interact but self segregation along ideological lines isn't healthy for anyone over the long term.

    As an example it's why I'm still subscribed to communities over on .ml. They challenge my base reality and expose me to viewpoints that I wouldn't consider on my own.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    As an example it’s why I’m still subscribed to communities over on .ml. They challenge my base reality and expose me to viewpoints that I wouldn’t consider on my own.

    So it's working?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So it’s working?

    How so? I'm having to go out of my way to find and engage with people who have alternate viewpoints & lifestyles because they tend to get pushed out of / banned from "regular" communities. That's the exact problem being discussed here.

    In the broader context of the meme itself people start thinking they are in the majority because they are participating in online communities that have been carefully curated over time to silence anyone who disagrees.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    In what way do you have to 'go out of your way' to interact with ml or hex?

    Are... they not federated with your instance?

    If yes, they're not federated, then you did that to yourself, by joining an instance that doesn't show their posts and communities to you.

    If no, they are federated... then just sort set your feed from local to global, and you'll see their posts in their communities pop up.

    ... The entire point of the federation model is to allow each user to determine ... basically how much of a bubble they want to be in.

    You may determine a whole instance is full of nutcases in a bubble, and avoid them... or you may not think that, and retain the ability to interact with them.

    Generally speaking... you can pretty much join whatever instance you want, and in so doing, you are accepting the instances that are federated with your own instance, and rejecting the instances your instance admins have defederated from.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't call .ml and hexbear or similar as broadening your horizon, it's a very insular community that does not allow dissent. And often resemble their conservative counterparts.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I wonder what percentage of your comments are about pushing people off of LW.

    LW mods generally don't have more than one major community. It's not a rule, but we have made a bit of an effort to avoid reddit-style supermods.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    So what? At least they're not tankies.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Happened to a ton of trans people on .blahaj

    The 196 community didn't like the rule that forced them to repsect a troll that was using the gender "dragonfucker" to mock and invalidate real gender identities and sexualities.

    Instead of banning a single troll they banned dozens of users off the most popular community on blahaj and triggered the community to make a 196 community on .world

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I am still convinced 'Drag' legitimately has dissociative identity disorder and isn't a troll in the sense of ... 'i am in full control of my faculties and choose to act as caricature to sew sow chaos'...

    But yeah, that whole... thing... was fucking bonkers.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lemmy and any social media platform that bans or censors because the post or comment contradicts the majority is wrong. By majority I mean those using that specific social media platform. In many cases that majority opinion is actually NOT the majority opinion of society as a whole.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    If you are looking for closed communities like conservatives and ml then yea they don't allow much disagreement against them. They are there because reddit banned them at some point for the same thing

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I'm banned from about 180 subs because a mod here decided he didn't like my version of reality.

    Everytime I post and I'm told I'm banned from whatever community I never posted in before I block that sub.

    Why would I want any part of a sub that blindly and aggressively censors opinions they don't agree with? That would be stupid, so I leave them to their bubble

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