I mean, we are way lefter than reddit, and given that the bell curve of intelligent responses is located at about the same place, we probably look a lot further left than we are to liberals and right of there. (i.e. stupid responses and extremist responses look pretty similar.)
My first day on my first account I saw more overt racism on Lemmy than I saw on Reddit in a year. Being able to block the tankie triad instances fixed most of this.
I call bullshit. What racism did you see exactly, “reverse-racism”? Did you see Western settler-colonialists get insulted? Do you have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of racism?
Whenever I see complaints like these, purposefully vague about what kind of “exteme views” they have a problem with, I have to think of this meme
There it is! That’s the meme!
If Lemmy is extreme leftist, this person is likely to be conservative or they keep stumbling into Grad and think that’s the whole platform.
I tend to lean towards ineptitude in this case though.
I mean, we are way lefter than reddit, and given that the bell curve of intelligent responses is located at about the same place, we probably look a lot further left than we are to liberals and right of there. (i.e. stupid responses and extremist responses look pretty similar.)
Not sure if poorly phrased or pseudo-intellectual argument for horseshoe theory and/or enlightened centrism.
My first day on my first account I saw more overt racism on Lemmy than I saw on Reddit in a year. Being able to block the tankie triad instances fixed most of this.
This you, defending colonizers and Just Asking Questions about fascism?
The modlog is probably another reason people think Lemmy is “toxic.” They can’t just lie about what they were banned for here.
I call bullshit. What racism did you see exactly, “reverse-racism”? Did you see Western settler-colonialists get insulted? Do you have even a Wikipedia-level understanding of racism?