Safe space, or echo chamber?
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gullible@kbin.social 10 months agoIt’s a safe space and the fediverse rapidly expanded tenfold. Beehaw has stated outright that they want to refederate with the big instances, but are delaying until mod tools improve enough to allow them to maintain their safe space for their gaggle of vulnerable folks in the wake of the severely increased workload.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Gotta love how spending time with like-minded people has now been framed as an “echo chamber.” I blame reddit, since that’s where I first encountered this nonsense.
I’m fine with my “echo chambers.” We are able to have really in-depth, adult discussions about things like LGBTQIA issues, mental health, and politics without having to constantly swat away a bunch of sea lions.
samus12345@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Had to look up “sea lion.” That’s something I’ve seen a lot of, but never knew there was a specific term for.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Yeah, it’s sadly ubiquitous. I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t witness several sea lions in the wild
PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Sealion in an accusation that rests on assuming someone else’s intentions. You can’t ever know for sure if someone is a sealion, because people aren’t mind readers. I usually see sealioning accusations thrown by neurotypicals at autistic people, because they can’t read our emotions like they’re used to and that freaks them out and they assume hostile intent.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve been running into something adjacent, but doesn’t quite fit that description. Basically people use the tactics of Sealioning but the motivation seems to be just reframing the conversation to whatever they wanted to talk about, rather than necessarily pissing you off. It can be just as annoying though.
dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You do realize that associating with primarily people who share the same views or values as you is literally an echo chamber right?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sometimes people want to have a conversation without someone with the username DMmeYourNudes wanting to debate them.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Nope. That term is only used by sea lions and shitlords. It’s one of those terms like “virtue signaling” that immediately lets you know the person has less to offer society than a common housefly or roach.
PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I argue with fascists, exclus, medicalists, and sexists all the time and I’ve never met a sealion. But I have met neurotypical people who expect their sense of cognitive empathy to work on neurodivergent people, and then project all sorts of BS onto them for having a different opinion. IME that term is a dogwhistle for ableism.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 months ago
You’ve never spent any time on reddit, I take it?
That’s a whole colony of sea lions.
Lucky you, but I encounter sea lions all the time. People like Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro have formed entire careers around sea-lioning.
gullible@kbin.social 10 months ago
It’s literally a safe space, you absolute sea lion.
gmtom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Please go back to reddit
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sounds like it’s a bit of both tbh
yukichigai@kbin.social 10 months ago
That's nice and all, but "join our instance" and "we're defederated from the other two biggest instances" are in direct opposition to each other, doesn't matter what excuses you use.
gullible@kbin.social 10 months ago
Only if you don’t think about it are they not mutually exclusive ideas. Safe space first, increase size of safe space second.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Unless you use a client with multiaccount support