daelphinux

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

@[email protected] My feed today has been 1:5 posts about antivax, and almost every thread has had some sort of election denialism.

If we don't take a stand now we're going to be the next Voat/Gab/what have you. I came here because I was promised Leftists, not liberals. Take a stand and do something about this before it becomes a rapidly dying community.

Also, in re: "We can't disprove it", yeah no shit: you can't disprove anything. The burden is on the person making the claim, not the person refuting it. But keep shifting that burden to logical impossibility. If that's the moderation view here, you just solidified lemmy's future content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know, about the leftist correction, I was making a commentary on how liberal it is to allow an Anti-vaxx mandate discussion as if it's not a thinly cloaked excuse to legitimize sharing a substantial amount of vaccine misinformaiton.

I think when we start allowing bad-faith efforts to hide worse things we open the door for all of the same sad excuses that lead to the failings of voat, mewe, gab, and literally everything else that started to get away from that shit, and it just fills on in anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It doesn't seem to matter. I've seen 3 posts today, all with an admin telling people not to report anti-vax posts because there's no rule.

"Lemmy, a community of liberal privacy and FOSS enthusiasts..."

 

I've been seeing some concerning trends whereby anti-vaxx posts are defended as "free speech" and a growing number of users with "Trump Won" sentiments.

Is there going to be a stance taken on this? Or are we going to lose this community, like so many others, to propaganda and hatred?