Oh, I don't care about the points, I'll still reply in whatever manner I like anyway. It's at least some indicator of how your comment comes across to readers. It's just funny that I win the unpopularity contest for simply defending myself while the other person is spewing bullshit.

Amazing username

I think people leave because of the lack of niche communities.

Reddit niche communities are like crack. None of the fandom communities are active here.

Does piefed have good moderation tools?

I've gotten suspended from Reddit for hurting fascist's feelings, most recently because I said what I wished had happened to the leaders of the confederacy.

Reddit will let blatant hate speech and active calls for violence against minorities stand as "not violating any rules" and the only reason any of the subreddits aren't overran by that crap is the individual subreddit mods remove comments and ban people, but that only goes so far as they are all unpaid volunteers.

The kind of people that do get banned by Reddit for being bigots have to say stuff that would actually get them in legal trouble, and usually those are the ones that are actively threatening specific people all the time because they think death threats are an effective debate tactic when they don't know what they are talking about, and they never know what they are talking about.

Those people end up being a special kind of asshole so when they come to Lemmy they end up doing the same, but with federation they tend to endup more on the openly fascist instances that most sane instances don't federate with.

♥️♥️♥️

Also, Reddit admins regularly suspend/ban anyone marginally on the left when we say we will defend ourselves or when we express opinions about certain dead fascists or in my most recent suspension: Said the confederate leaders should have gotten the same treatment they gave to runaway slaves.

Reddit only bans fascists/conservatives when they do something that could get them in legal trouble. But anyone on the left, and especially anyone queer, even slightly arguing we might need to defend ourselves from their violence with our own will get banned extremely quick.

Remember: Reddit didn't take down subreddits dedicated to perving on children until it got in the news.

Usually there's an uptick of violent bOtH sIdEs SaMe-style rhetoric just prior to an election in some Western nation. I'm not sure if that is what is happening now or something else.

it's only gotten worse far as i'v been alive. bar only ever gets lower, not sure how they lower it from trump...alex jones/tucker carlson ticket for 2028, perhaps?

Everything everywhere is becoming them vs us. Red vs blue, north vs south, east vs west, their color vs my color, their party vs my party, their opinion vs our opinion, your region vs my region, your problems vs my problems. Everywhere.

And we are all losing except the people that have always been winning.