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What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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A few examples include s*x questions on askreddit, "this" comments, nolife powermods, jokes being more frequent than actual answers

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[โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

The problem with letting things fester is that they tend to grow and get worse while they're out of sight/out of mind, until they eventually burst out and spread toxicity everywhere.

One of the benefits of free speech is that the nasty stuff gets exposed. When it's exposed then you at least know where it is. The only problem is if the nasty stuff doesn't get labeled as such so it can be dealt with, and instead is treated as if it were normal and allowed to continue spreading (e.g. police turning a blind eye to far-right gun nuts intimidating voters).

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    Burst out where? Into another instance that can get defederated? Into a million instances? Great. Spread that userbase as thin as possible. Defederate the most annoying ones.

    The nasty stuff you are talking about is straight from Fox news. That's a failure of American broadcasting standards, that you have an "entertainment" channel holding itself up as legitimate news.

    If Fox was disallowed from calling itself news years ago, you would not have these problems. If Fox was put into subscriber only TV channels, you would not have this problem.

    Fox was opt-out for viewers. Make it opt-in. Make hateful instances opt -in for the users.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    Ultimately though we are only in control of our own spaces. If we control our spaces our lives get easier because of it. Knowing they exist and that the state and society as a whole is entirely disinterested in fixing that problem aside from half baked deprogramming ideas hasnt enhanced my life in any way. All i can do is carry protection from them, make sure my spaces treat them as an active threat and live my life.

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