I thought FUD was a cryptobro term.

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    The post did not necessarily convince me to block the HC instance, but the instance admin of it coming in here to combat every comment critical of the instance sure has lol.

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      If you use an app like Voyager, you can block entire instances. There are also web interfaces that allow it as well.

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        This was news to me and super helpful! In the Voyager app, go to Settings > Filters & Blocks. There will be a section called “Blocked Instances” and a button that says “Add Instance”. Click the button, and there is a search suggestion box, so you just type “hil” and the first result is “hilariouschaos.com” and you can just click that result and you’re done!

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          But doesn’t doing that in Voyager simply apply the base Lemmy instance block? If so then it merely mutes communities from it, but doesn’t block users from the instance from posting, commenting, responding, sending DMs, etc.

          It’s not nothing, but it falls far short of expectations, especially for something called by that name.

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            I have no clue what all it does or doesn’t do. I suspect my time on Lemmy has gotten marginally better, but to what degree, I’m not sure. Good call out though

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      Unfortunately you really can’t, not trivially I mean. Also, lemm.ee’s whole schtick is that they don’t defederate from anyone.

      • There is a “instance block” in Lemmy, but horribly misnamed as all it does is mute communities but still allows users to troll you from the instance in other communities, such as this one
      • Move to PieFed, which allows true blocking of all users from an instance, without needing admin approval
      • Stay on Lemmy and switch to either the Sync or Connect app - I’ve not heard of any others that can do this but if someone knows of one please tell me?
      • Ask your instance to defederate from them - except for Lemm.ee that’s extremely unlikely to happen
      • Switch to another instance that has already done so
      • Develop a web browser filter, probably using something like Ublock
      • Create your own instance, and then you can deferate anyone you want

      Lemmy is fairly authoritian for non-admin end-users, but we use what is provided to us (which is why I’m ecstatically happy with the more fully featured PieFed!:-).

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          Well, I definitely could have taken more time to phrase that more precisely.:-) They obviously don’t refuse to defederate from “anyone” - as there are 4 blocked instances listed there - but it’s more that they are proud of a diversity of opinion, so that e.g. they do not defederate from Hexbear.net or even from Lemmygrad.ml, which most other instances choose to do. Value judgements entirely aside (although if we were to get into such I would prefer to have divided them into opt-in vs. opt-out), many new users of the Fediverse report having gotten confused about being bullied and how to stop it, and then left (as reported on e.g. r/RedditAlternatives) rather than stick around long enough to find out. So lemm.ee puts a lot of the burden of figuring things out, rather than making those decisions for those new joiners.

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              Me too - and in that case, lemm.ee is always my chief recommendation for those who want that, while for the more mainstream normal audience, especially centrists (if any such still exist) in the USA, Discuss.Online or sopuli.xyz, etc.

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      Well that someone was simply wrong. HC is not a rebrand of anything, we just don’t censor based on political lines.

      Anyone is welcome to start any kind of community they wish on HC and moderate as they see fit, within instance rules.

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        Lol. You are making this argument…in a thread showing actual proof that you censor based on political lines.

        Ever heard of the Streisand Effect??? Idiot.

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          Tbf, they said that the instance doesn’t censor based on political lines, while on the other hand the communities on it can “moderate as they see fit”.

          It’s a loophole.

          Possibly still worth defederating, but not based solely on the comment you responded to.

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    Didn’t know much about hilariouschaos, but it’s definitely an instance I will be blocking after reading this thread. Any instance willing to put up with nazis should be shunned and other instances should defederate from them.

    Edit: Apparently I already blocked the instance when I joined lemmy. Go figure.

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      You are spreading lies, HC does not put up with nazis. You will notice that nobody can seem to find any nazi content, despite claims that we are literally a nazi bar.

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        You’re missing the point.

        The “Nazi bar” analogy has nothing to do with literal Nazis except by way of explanation. People tried to explain this to you already.

        The point is, when you allow people into your space who nobody wants anything to do with (and specifically because they will tend to attack those people and also they believe they are subhuman), you have decided that your space will be only for those people. Because everyone else will leave. If you don’t want that to happen, don’t let those people into your space. Up to you.

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          Tagging on this comment so people can see. HC is not exploding heads remastered lol idk why you ppl are obsessed with wanting it to be. I guess y’all are hard pressed on wanting an enemy or something? And that’s what I don’t understand.

          I’m jumping in here to pretty much explain what HC is and why it was created. (Alice site admin here)

          Let’s clear a few things up about HilariousChaosHC.

          I know some of you are under the impression that Hilarious Chaos is somehow tied to Exploding Heads. It’s not. It never was. And it never will be. I’m sorry to disappoint you if that’s what you were hoping for, but it’s just not true.

          Hilarious Chaos actually started as a WordPress site—a space for me to share the silly, ridiculous videos I make. The move to Lemmy happened for one simple reason: Lemmy has mobile apps, and I prefer using Android apps over websites. WordPress doesn’t have an Android app that works the way I want it to, so we migrated.

          If any of you took five seconds to browse our communities, you’d see what Hilarious Chaos is really about:

          Sloth Me

          Christie’s Perspective

          Governor Chris Christie’s Solo Videos

          Farts and Poop

          Shitty Ass Hilarious Chaos

          Random Shit - Stock Talk Videos

          One on One

          The Delicate Daisy Den

          What do all of those have in common? Pure silliness. This instance wasn’t created for political tribalism. It was created as a playground for my bizarre humor.

          As we federated, people started projecting onto us—spreading this weird narrative that we’re somehow the reincarnation of Exploding Heads. We’re not. Exploding Heads is gone. Its not coming back. Move on.

          Now, if we’re being really honest here, a lot of this drama comes down to one thing: Hilarious Chaos allows conservative content. We don’t allow Nazis. We don’t allow hate speech. But yes—we allow conservatives to post and speak like everyone else. And that rubs some of you the wrong way. So instead of being upfront and saying, “I don’t like that this instance allows conservatives,” you spin these false narratives.

          If you’re gonna criticize, at least be honest about what you’re mad about.

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            If you’re gonna criticize, at least be honest about what you’re mad about.

            I think about 80-90% of the criticisms here are, very openly and honestly, because of the “conservative” content on HC. Personally, I noted the relationship between the two, but I honestly don’t give too much of a shit what the instance used to be or what it is called now.

            I tried at quite a bit of length to explain to splinter what the issue was. Conservative viewpoints are allowed. I guess. Although they’re obviously unpopular, no one will stop you from making a community full of “Stephen Miller’s immigration policies are a really good idea” and “Trump negotiated cease-fires in Gaza and Ukraine, what a wonderful job he is doing.” What you guys are asking for is:

            • To be able to provide a safe space for those things, and correspondingly for people who have been ejected from other forums because their interpersonal behavior on Lemmy is about as gross as you’d expect from a person who believes those things. Which means inevitably your instance is going to be pretty much only that aside from your own content.
            • To also be popular

            That’s not going to happen. Innocent people are getting snatched up and getting shipped to turbo-prison to stay for life for no reason at all. Pretty soon if things continue they’re going to be dying and US citizens are going to be included in the ones getting snatched (more so than they are already). If you’re okay providing a platform for the people doing that, including for deliberate professionally-crafted lies that are trying to smokescreen the whole operation so that it can continue without reasonable people rising up to put a stop to it, people are going to get disgusted by you. If you’re okay with that, cool. If not, but you’re still doing those things, I’m not sure what to tell you.

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            Hilarious Chaos allows conservative content.

            Assuming you mean american conservativism then seems like the criticism is justified.

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            I’ve literally messaged you about Nazi content on your instance and you ignored me. Nice fucking try.

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            You’re right on most of that, but the few conservatives flood the news and politcs communities there.

            Avoiding a few other ones, the instance is fine.

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                Don’t forget that they’re also one of the few remaining instances that let ban-evading trolls create alt characters and pretend to be someone else without question.

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                  I wouldn’t know. I’m not obsessed with trying to figure out if people have alts, but as far as I know, I’ve never come across that there.

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          places like .world are also Nazi bars though

          when you allow people into your space who nobody wants anything to do with (and specifically because they will tend to attack those people and also they believe they are subhuman)

          this is /u/cm0002 in case you were wondering

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            Wow, so you’ve resorted to just straight up lying about other users now LMAO

            Gee I wonder why you don’t directly link to the comment I supposedly said

            Oh, because it doesn’t exist

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              So diva basically just straight up lied to you, I never even said what ever they’re referencing lol here:

              If it was true they would have directly linked the comment

              But diva is a known Tankie of .ml, lying about other users isn’t even the worst they do, here check this comm for documentation of the shenanigans .ml tankies get up to: [email protected]

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              People who spend all their time punching left when the US secret police are straight up disappearing people from the streets and sending them to a concentration camp should be treated like the Nazis they are, yes.

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                Lol “punching left” nah I just don’t subscribe to the idea of replacing capitalism authoritarianism with “left flavored” authoritarianism that the tankies push so hard for

                [email protected] for documentation

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

                Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

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                Ok, I misunderstood what you were saying. I thought you were saying cm0002 is a Nazi or something like that.

                I disagree with the characterization of LW, but at least now I correctly understand what you are saying. 😀

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                It all makes sense now.

                I’ve called them out before on their bs, but only got downvotes for it.

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                  I’ve tried searching through my inbox looking for interactions between us but wasn’t able to find anything, but my inbox is rather…extensive and there’s no inbox searching tools AFAIK lol

                  Considering diva just straight up lied (see below), id like to review this disagreement we had myself

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    As so often happens:

    “We’re just tired of these THOUGHT POLICE and want to make a place where we can finally just hang out and be comfortable without the fun police hanging over our shoulders censoring every word we’re free speech warriors come join us we’re better”

    Turned out to mean:

    “I want to be an asshole, you have no rights whatsoever, that’s a given and fuck you, and if anyone EVER infringes on any of my rights real or imagined in any way no matter how trivial, I will throw a hissy fit of thermonuclear proportions”

    (I’m just assuming that this PTB is indicative of hilariouschaos / exploding-heads in general, I don’t have a very strong read on what they’re about. But I think it is a safe working theory.)

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      HC is not exploding heads. The actions of a community do not represent the instance itself.

      You are welcome to start your own community on HC and moderate it as you see fit.

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        The actions of a community do not represent the instance itself.

        Yeah, no, they do. That’s kind of the point of administration. By allowing actions to take place on the instance, those actions can become representative of the instance. The fact that you’re an inattentive or uncaring administrator doesn’t absolve you of the actions taken under your watch.

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        HC is not exploding heads.

        Yes it is.

        The actions of a community do not represent the instance itself.

        I mean that’s fair, but also, this is the #2 community there. The #1 community is an AI news summary place made by a person I find notably weird and disagreeable.

        You are welcome to start your own community on HC and moderate it as you see fit.

        Yeah, I’ll get right on that. It sounds delightful.

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          You are free to dislike anything of course, but that doesn’t make us something we’re not.

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            I like your bot, man. Ignore him. I don’t even like most bots, but yours does great.

            Not only that, but his instance has bots too, so he’s a hypocrite.

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            Bro why u hating on my bot? What did it do?

            AI news summaries even when done by big professional software companies have a big habit of getting stuff wrong. It’s not ideal. There are plenty of news communities on Lemmy including some automated ones.

            If you want a little AI project, I’d be happy to work with you on my project of a community where people can argue with each other and an AI moderator will judge who’s being good-faith in their conduct, sort of referee the discussion to help reduce the “there’s no way to have a ‘debate’ if the other person’s committing to just being an evasive bad-faith cunt about it” problem. That, I think would be a good addition to the space, and I thought about how to do it a little bit already.

            I find you notably weird and disagreeable.

            Yeah, probably right on both counts.

            I actually just clicked on your user and took a quick look over, searching for some kind of misdemeanor I could criticize you for, and I couldn’t find anything. I just remember you being super rude sometimes and saying deliberately inflammatory stuff, but that’s all, and maybe that isn’t the end of the world.

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              project of a community where people can argue with each other and an AI moderator will judge who’s being good-faith in their conduct, sort of referee the discussion to help reduce the “there’s no way to have a ‘debate’ if the other person’s committing to just being an evasive bad-faith cunt about it” problem.

              Any ways to follow this project? This is a concept I’ve also thought about. Would probably work to prompt various simple yes/no questions about a comment and what it’s responding to like, “is it likely they didn’t read it”, “does it address the central point” and then do stuff with the results

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                It hasn’t gone past the “idea” stage. I have an unfortunate habit of talking up all kinds of fancy stuff I want to do and only following through on like 20% of it, but I do think something like that would be a really good idea. If I do wind up executing on it I will reach out.

                And yes, I think having multiple prompts to sort of analyze the comments thread and progress towards conclusions about it is the way to go. I was mucking around with, I think, a four-prompt setup to keep the LLM from going too far off the rails or try to bite off too much of the analysis at once (and also, to stop it from wanting to be “fair to everyone” which it seems like it otherwise really wants to do because of how it’s been trained to be supposedly-neutral).

            • Thankfully I got an entire lemmy community to correct the incorrect summaries. Although the error rate is pretty low and most errors come from the web scraper having issues not the ai.

              I like that idea u would want to use a dolphin finetuned model as they are uncensored and thus have significantly less bias. U might struggle to get the ai to evaluate the badfsithness and not the arguments points itself tho.

              I’m don’t say deliberately inflammatory stuff I just say what I believe and sometimes people agree sometimes they don’t. I can be quite rude but I try to only do that when people are attacking me and not my argument.

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              By the same logic you would have to start a perpetual witch hunt on all instances - after all, they could be anywhere.

              HC (the instance) does not support any side of the political debate. I guess that’s intolerable.

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                  We do not tolerate content that a nazi would post (e.g. calls for violence, discrimination based on race, etc).

                  What do you understand by “nazi”?

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                implying Nazis are just a “side of the political debate”

                Elsewhere in this thread, accusing the enemy of doing exactly what they are doing.

                Emphasizes to the point of nausea that they are categorically neutral and unbiased

                Twisting words, appeal to ideological principle (“intolerable”), and other bad faith arguments.

                Yep, that’s a rightwing instance alright.

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                  A conservative community =/= the nazis. Also most of the accounts posting there are not even HC users.

                  Can you show me an example of nazi content on HC?

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            Bullshit like this happening to me, for one. I also wouldn’t want a community on lemmy.world or slrpnk for the same reason: Because then, not only would I be associating myself with their brand, but I would also be subject to having weird stuff happen to my community because of decisions by admins I don’t trust.

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              I’m on the record here that you would be free to moderate as you wish, so long as instance rules are adhered to - just like everyone else.

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        That is blatantly false, spread by people who can’t understand why an instance wouldn’t censor based on political lines.

        HC has never been anything like exploding heads.

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          You’re a 2 day old account with the same username as HC’s admin. Your only posts/comments on your account are in defense of that instance. I hardly consider you an unbiased or trustworthy source based on my experiences with that instance.

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                  Yes, in a comment of mine immediately up this chain, I linked to a site showing that dbzer0 has censured HC.

                  I felt that the HC admin was not forthcoming enough about their identity when using their alt to defend HC, since most users won’t know the name of admins of instances apart from maybe their own and even less likely those of notable instances or defeded instances. To most users, Splinter would just seem to be an average Joe on Lemmy without any particular affiliation with HC, since in their comments they did not immediately state something to the effect of “I’m an admin of HilariousChaos. Yada yada yada”.

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            I am one of the admins of HC, using this account so everyone can see what I have to say.

            I am telling you that you are welcome to start any kind of community on HC (within the generic site rules) and be welcomed the same as everyone else. You can moderate it however you wish. HC (the instance) does not take political sides.

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                  I went on there for about 30 seconds and found a “The Donald” successor with UniversalMonk posting a little stream of total fantasy about how good the tariffs are and how Trump is going to save us.

                  I think now that the literal concentration camps are up and running, and people are going into them, it’s time to say that the modern Republican regime is today’s Nazi Party.

                  I’m actually fine with talking with a Republican online or in person, maybe I’m in the minority here in that. But we’ve all learned from experience that, at least in its current anonymous-online-forum behavior, that openly pro-Nazi contingent is never just looking to have a conversation and be reasonable about expressing what they honestly believe because they think it’s helping the country as a whole, and come to understanding. They’re always going to start threatening people over DMs after a while. They’re always going to post a steady stream of total fantasy, which they don’t actually believe or try to defend, just to try to manipulate the landscape by having it exist as a little offensive torrent which helps them in their work. They’re always going to manipulate the narrative and censor opposing speech in spaces they control. “Free speech” is always going to turn out to be a fiction once it’s speech they don’t agree with. Because that is their ideology: That it’s okay to cheat as long as you’re on their team, and the other team doesn’t deserve any type of human rights.

                  “Free speech” doesn’t mean one moderator can run their forum however they want. It doesn’t mean we have to listen to one person forever, however much they want to say, but they don’t have to listen to us if they don’t want to. It doesn’t work the way you’re saying it does. It’s a philosophy of freedom of ideas. It’s a shared social contract that comes with obligations, not just grants of what you’re allowed to do. It’s the idea that you may not agree with someone, but you need to hear them out and then engage honestly with what they’re saying. That we need to live together and protect the weakest or “wrongest” among us. That being a society as free humans with our inalienable rights is more important than our team winning. It’s not a set of code that provides everyone write access to the space, or a total-openness-of-moderation policy. It is a commitment to the idea that if we talk honestly with each other and respect each other, even if we don’t agree about something, we’ll be able to work it out, because even someone who you think is wrong as hell might have a point. The crucial piece you’re missing is that it has to cut both ways. Someone who’s claiming the shield, has to be also willing to provide the same shield to others in the space, and otherwise it is completely fair not to welcome them. That’s why every public servant has to swear an oath to the constitution. The oath is not “Now that I’m in charge I solemnly swear to do whatever the fuck I want, until someone else gets in charge and they can do the same to me.”

                  If someone’s not on board for it cutting both ways, but they’re hijacking some kind of open tool or democratic public space to make a pretense that they do so they can advance their agenda of killing or imprisoning their enemies and shutting down democracy in a place it used to exist, most reasonable people will tell them to get the fuck out. That’s not censorship. It’s self-defense. It’s the same as ejecting from a public meeting someone who blows hard on a whistle every time their opponents try to speak, passes them notes that they might be killed or their house burned down if they keep talking, and then stands up with a quavering voice and swears their commitment to open society and freedom, and says they can’t understand all these people who are aiming such hateful behavior at them because they said they were a bad person. I can easily find examples of all of that on your instance, I can be specific if you want me to. Do you want me to?

                  I’m not trying to bully you or your instance or anything personal towards you. But you guys have suffered reputational harm at this point because you’ve welcomed people who are actively trying to do harm to the rest of us. Not just harm but literal death and literal imprisonment. A lot of us, I assume, are thinking about fleeing the country, getting weapons to defend ourselves. A lot of us are real fucking worried about friends and family. We’re wondering what the fuck we even do now. We’re within our rights to want nothing more to do with you, if you welcome the viewpoint that all of that is okay. Or, not even that: If you welcome people who are okay lying about their own viewpoint and manipulating the space to try to advance that work and make it more effective.

                  Like I say: There is a genuine viewpoint that’s adjacent to what you’re saying that I agree with. I don’t think most of the Republican rank-and-file is our enemy (even if we might wind up in a war with them soon, depending). I don’t think shutting out particular honest political viewpoints is the way. I think we have to be able to talk to each other to even be able to begin to approach and heal from this fucking chasm in our society. It goes deeper than just the current Republican regime. But, like I say, once we get back down the rank-and-file level of individual people:

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                  Buddy if you can’t click a link and read a simple definition, I don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t say you have specific nazi content, I said you are suffering from the nazi bar problem.

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                At least you’re saying it outright.

                I suggest that most people in this thread are ultimately upset that we don’t take their side. It’s a bit ironic on a federated platform.

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                  Lol maybe if “your” side didn’t want to remove rights and freedoms, and install fascist dictators, you’d have a point

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                  I suggest that most people in this thread are ultimately upset that we don’t take their side.

                  Yep. Lemmy doesn’t like to admit that they are just as hateful and anti-diversity as the very people they say they are fighting against.

                  Plenty of Lemmy posters openly call for death of republicans. It’s sickening.

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    I am willing to believe there is MASSIVE overlap between cryptobros and lemmy’s right-wing users.

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    Wow I haven’t seen HC in a long time since I blocked them.

    Which was, almost, immediately.

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      I don’t even think I had a specific reason to block them. Their vibes were just way off.

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    In Internet forum terms, “FUD” got popularized in the context of Microsoft’s anti-Linux propaganda from the '90s and 2000s.