The difference now is that Gab exists and those people have been going over there for a few years now. As long as the fediverse doesn’t become an echo chamber like Reddit I’ll stay happy.
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I made a block-button happy trip thru the moderation logs of the larger magazines, got all the trolls & fascists in one fell swoop.
Low key using this thread to do that. Lots of closet fascists being shitty in here, but hey, the nice thing about them is they make themselves easy to spot!
The way to avoid the fediverse suffering the same fate is not to combat extremism with an equivalent amount of antagonistic political dialogue, but to form meaningful communities around non-political topics.
Instead of bickering in circles about politics, join communities dedicated to your hobbies, career, etc.
My primary concern is for the fediverse to generate content that is search engine friendly. Generally, I don't think that political squabbles serve that end.
I'm doing my best to practice what I preach. Check my profile.
It's easy to just block the things you don't want to see. As long as the communities you use don't allow that stuff, they will be banned if they bring it there. The same thing would have happened if more people joined those other reddit alternatives, but no one was willing to do it.
Every time people are reminded that they are in control of their own experience here, they downvote and reply, "no! I want to control your experience too!" What a terrible attitude to have.
They have to control what you read and it's always the same argument. 'Dogwhistle', 'Groomer', 'Nazi', 'Pedo', etc...
Funny thing is you never see this IRL and it's only the terminally online who write like this. IRL discussions are much more mellow and you can talk with people about stuff, even controversial topics and you can always drop it and be good.
Every comment in this thread you could've found on reddit and copy pasted it here. Same quality of discourse.
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Yeah, I joined VLemmy.net because they do not defederate with anyone and the admin made this post. Specifically the part where they said:
I feel it is important as many people have mentioned to “leave the power to the users” and let them decide the content they wish to see.
The great thing about the fediverse is that you can join a site that caters to what you want, or if it doesn't exist you can make it yourself.
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This exact thread down to the comments could've been on reddit and no one would've noticed. It's the same rehashed arguments and discussion ad nauseum. If you don't like some instance/magazine/whatever just block it yourself and be done with it.
I have no desire to have fascists exist on this platform "out of sight" any more than I have any desire to have a festering pile of dogshit swept under my rug instead of properly cleaned up.
If someone was planning to kill your family on an instance, would you just "block and be done with it?" What if it was anyone who looked like you, spoke your language? That's what needs to be eliminated; threats to innocent people that you've decided just aren't worth your time.
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