I would tolerate them a little more if it weren't for the constant brigading.

Wanna analyze Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory, self-crit, and all that good stuff? Fine by me, I like discussion of varying viewpoints. But often it's not about that but are bad faith arguments and whataboutisms about how the decadent West is ruled by the US and how Putin/Kim/Xi did nothing wrong.

It's exhausting. I don't go into their subs and rattle on about liberal market economics.

Of the people who say anything about it, there seems to be two mutually exclusive camps of people on Lemmy in regards to how it should be structured.

There's those who want it to be a drop-in replacement for whatever platform they migrated from (Reddit, ususally), with everything cultured in one simple, easy-to-browse place where there's enough activity to support diversity, just without the enshittification, even though the centralization they crave is exactly what invites the enshittification...

...and then there's those who specifically want the site to stay fragmented, because that's the whole point of federation, it keeps out all the riff raff, and prevents the platform from losing what makes it so great. But many of them complain about why it isn't growing as fast as they'd like it to, despite the fact that the fragmentation of community is by far the single greatest barrier preventing the mass adoption they yearn for.

Each one seems to want a piece of what the other has.

If it worked like that, everyone would have defederated .world cca December 2023.

Well, my 1st matrix account was on the kiwifarms' server. Nope, I didn't know tf kiwifarms was at the time, I just liked the name

You can just talk to Jerry. He's the guy in the grey sedan across your street. If you give him the code word, he'll give you the package.

I’m on lemmy.ml and most of the communities I interact with are on lemmy.world. Most people are normal about it.

I mean.. it helps. I've seen less tankies after blocking .ml subs, but they're still there

The plural of anecdote is not data, but 90% of comments that I've seen defending russia in particular had been from .ml

I've been banned from the entire .ml instnce and all its communities for daring to talk about the uyghur genocide.

Yes, we need to defederate now.

I’ve been banned from a number of ml instances for saying that communism isn’t that great actually

It's caused shit in the comments.