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Comment on My experience as the original mod of this community. - lemm.ee

I found this really relatable, as someone who used to be a mod on a Lemmy instance before I basically got run out of the server I was on by intolerant bigots. Everything came to a head with this brigade on the server's admin (who is a good dude as far as I can tell):

https://feddit.nl/post/30629695

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40329206

Leading up to this, leftist trolls had been brigading my communities, throwing fits about me sharing left wing articles and flooding my posts with downvotes. I didn't mind the downvotes because Lemmy is a leftist platform at the end of the day, but did make a rule against "I don't like that website" comments because it amounted to spam.

It is difficult to cultivate flourishing communities centered around news, current events, or politics on Lemmy that isn't a BlueAnon echo chamber. This is why I am here (using Lotide) and don't plan on using Lemmy again anytime soon. The community is far too toxic and propagandized to be a healthy place for political discourse.

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DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Wow, I just read all of the stuff in those links. This stood out: @bdonvr, admin of The Lemmy Club has, in my opinion, responded in good faith to the concerns raised in this post, and so I have withdrawn my proposal for defederation.** In summary: They will no longer be allowing conservative/right wing communities on their instance**

So much for Lemmy being all about diversity. lol I’m 100 percent thinking this will eventually happen to my communities, but so far the admin has been amazing and truly believes in diversity. But I’m nervous that people will keep hammering on him.

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- Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  some of the people try to bully to control the content which really just destroys what the fediverse is supposed to be.
  
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DonaldJMusk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
well said!

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Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Technically, lemmy is just using a protocol that allows it to federate with other people using that protocol. Many of the leftist went to Lemmy because they were kicked off the other platforms for the Nazi Bar Problem. The developers of lemmy didn’t create the protocol. They are using Lemmy as their version of the software using that protocol. The same protocol used by threads, etc

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- realcaseyrollins ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Fair enough, I really am speaking of Lemmy so broadly because 99% of Lemmy instances are leftist. Culturally and politically it is wayyyyyyy more homogeneous than even Mastodon.
  - Chucklestheclown@hilariouschaos.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    For this style of instance. They’re about the only game in town. The others haven’t grown or failed. I will give the lemmy developers credit. They’re dragged this software along where other have failed. I believe this is classified as a link aggregator.
    
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    realcaseyrollins ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yes the Lemmy software is great. It's why I came back to Lemmy, I had actually checked it out once and then ended up leaving several years ago.
    
    I know there are mbin and PieFed but IDK how good they are. I know that PieFed does have some federation issues with Lotide (which is what I am using).
    
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