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Oh wow! That’s crazy. But yeah, you’re right, it wasn’t the same after the new people took over.

I guess the conservative community there–that they let get taken over by a troll and turned into a joke community–wasn’t really the thing they should have been concentrating on. They were so busy shutting down anyone who was a conservative, that they lost sight of what Lemmy is really about about.

So after what they let happen to the conservative community and how they treated conservatives there, I don’t feel bad at all that they are shutting down. Never super awesome when a lemmy instance goes down, but they didn’t believe in a diversity of voices and opinion, became way to censor-happy, and now they are shutting dwon.

I say good riddance. :)

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Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What is funny, is that it was one of the top communities and after the change, it dropped towards the bottom.

Diversity of ideas is a good thing. The problem is that most admins want echo chambers, which is why Lemmy is struggling as a whole. If everyone is just circle jerking each other, it gets old real quick.

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- DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah, I don’t think Lemmy is gonna grow much larger than it is now. Basically we exclude half of the US, and any other population with conservative people. The censorship has grown worse than reddit. It’s harder to join than reddit. So yeah, Lemmy is probably at it’s peak population now.
  
  I still like it more than reddit, but it’s not super welcoming to diverse opinions.
  
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  - Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Until Lemmy is able to manage the angry incel population, they will struggle.
    
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    DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yep. The anti-semitism I am seeing on here lately is troubling as well. Funny for a platform that is so quick to call everyone Nazis are starting to treat Jewish people like, well…like the Nazis did.
    
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Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I stopped donating after they shut down the conservative community. I know many of the liberals stopped as well. They wanted a place to engage with conservatives and have meaningful discussions. Calling Elon’s had gesture a nazi move just showed how bad the new admins were . 1. The photo was missed. 2. It was a joke meme from a liberal show. 3. Shutting down the forum over a missed, joke meme just showed they didn’t want any real discussions; they wanted an echo chamber. They just wanted to determine what is the truth. Many of the liberals were pissed because it showed they could be next. That if they disagreed with an admin, they wouldn’t be warned, they would have their content deleted or be banned.

The fediverse should be place for open discussions and not echo chambers.

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- DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Worse than shutting down, they let it be taken over by an anti-conservative troll and turned into a joke meme community. I blocked them after that. So until you post, I had no idea they were shutting down. lol
  
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  - Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Ella was one of the main causes as to why they are shutting down, that and bird boy. You can’t put radical people in charge of your moderate instance and not expect it to blow up
    
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    DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yep, Ella was totally on board with giving the conservative community over to that troll. But I notice they haven’t posted in two months. So maybe they are one of the admins stepping away from it because of stress?
    
    So to be honest, I’m sorta celebrating Lemm.ee’s demise. Just like they celebrated ruining the conservative community.
    
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