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Underrated benefit of lemmy is like minded people will tend to join the same instances and if I don't want to interact with those groups I can just filter the whole instance. (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, I don't. When I call people Nazis and fascists it's because I know what both of those words mean, being literate.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

Then you are missing the point because there are tons of people who disagree with you who aren't Nazis. OP is talking about how it's great how you can only talk with people you agree with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It has been awhile, but there were some Lemmy instances that people made to discuss Alt-Right viewpoints. They are all defederated now, but they caused quite the stir back in the day. Look it up. Here's a start:

So, granted that there are not really (self-proclaimed neo-) Nazis here now, but this is still a fairly recent series of events in the shared consciousness of Lemmings. Also, fascism is alive and well world-wide, and on Lemmy very much in the open and in the here and now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

FYI, a few of those links are dead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

It seems that Discuss.Online keeps archival copies of such older messages rather than delete them after a defederation action. Try viewing them on that instance.

On a separate matter, this is a brand-new message that for that and perhaps other reasons I doubt you've seen but that you may be very interested to know about: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6127949/5423163. The post itself is talking about the upcoming defederation between jlai.lu and lemmygrad.ml, which I'm sure you know about, but what I wanted to call your attention to is in the OP's comment where they immediately start talking about a method to use a 2nd account or some other method to bypass that defederation attempt. They also float an idea to change the Lemmy sourcecode so that admins can no longer control which instances their users can access - this seems like an enormous security issue to me though (e.g. CSAM and other outright violent rhetoric that could get someone in trouble if it were on their machines).

Anyway no matter how you slice it, it is uh... "interesting". The more of such discussions I see, the more glad I am that I switched to PieFed that does not depend upon the Lemmy sourcecode at all - even though Discuss.Online was great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You are replying to a comment thread that is about blocking Nazis, it's completely disingenuous to act like that's not a legit problem and that anyone is talking about anything other than actual fucking Nazis. They are real. No one said everyone they disagree with is a Nazi because that's fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 weeks ago

No, OPs point was that they can block people they disagree, with the person above in this thread brought up Nazis when people pointed out how toxic that behaviour is in creating filter bubbles.

I.e. they brought up an extreme example at one end of the spectrum to make a point when we were discussing the spectrum more broadly

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

No shit, genius.

For example, the liberals endorsing genocide for realpolitik aren't fascists, they're just doing what American liberals have done since the founding of liberalism as an ideology.

I disagree with them but don't call them Nazis and don't think their opinions on other things shouldn't be heard.