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Are you being inflammatory and intentionally framing my post to make it seem like I made statements that I didn't make? What I refuted is that posting a simple map that appears to tell a definitive story isn't actually very substantial because there are many ways in which it can be misleading.

Let's first address the most obvious error in your comment. You said that I claimed "majority of the world support trump with that map", and my comment clearly says "country", not world.

My point is that placing colors on a map can mean anything depending on how you frame the context or what you understand about what geographically is being depicted in the map. I used a map of the US as an example of how colors on a map can be misleading. The vast majority of that map is red, which would lead you to believe that in a lens where red/blue represent two different political parties, would have you believe the red party has drastically more support than the blue party.

Now that is one way that a map with simplistic information shown can be misleading, but there are other ways to use them to be misleading. For example, the very map that Dessalines posts, why is it that nearly all the Western countries are unified in a certain perspective of China? Are you going to say because of US influence? It would be fair to refute that a bunch of independent developed Western nations have each come to a similar conclusion about China if you claimed that there was a lack of independence to them coming to that conclusion. At the same time, couldn't that argument also be made about China and other nations within the sphere of influence of China?

Also you're using a fallacious defense that Muslim countries are somehow more authoritative in source because the alleged victims of abuse are Muslim, as though no collective of people have ever hurt people that have identified similarly of that collective before. Wasn't there violence between different denominations of Christians? Isn't there violence between different beliefs among Muslims? There's a laundry list of abuses humans have committed against each other and against people that identify similar to each other, and it's often because there ends up being a deep difference of opinion on specific issues. So generalizing that all Muslim countries will support all Muslims in all cases is bigotry on your part.

A map like that isn't really reflective of any substance. Do you know what most maps of the US look like when defining political opinions by states? It's a sea of red. But it clearly doesn't tell a valid picture of popular support. And I'm not even arguing that makes any particular opinion more valid or not, all I'm saying is that its very easily misleading depending on what narrative you want to sell.

https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/E7LSY66ODVCFHEVJ7TTGJKPHSU.jpg

Clearly the vast majority of the country supported Trump based on that map...Except that's not true.

From what I have read, I believe this behavior will change when they finish the update changing from websockets to HTML. Last I saw they said they were about 80% done so it seemingly is fairly close but that is relative as I don't know the pace of development. Then presumably you'd still have to wait for your instance to be updated.

As far as I know that's the only solution unless somehow someone made a script that prevents the page from updating.

I don't disagree with your points or perspective, personally I didn't bother investigating much of the viewpoints in the communities on lemmygrad to the degree that you did. Mostly I knew it was more based around communism and beyond that I wasn't necessarily interested in specifically what the communities were about.

My mention of echo chamber was not to criticize you for wanting to exclude, which is why I mentioned I had already blocked their communities. It was more of a general statement about how I blocked them, but overall my intention isn't to just block everything I disagree with and put myself in an echo chamber. But what you described is why I was comfortable blocking it without doing the investigation you did. Because I saw on join lemmy that the instance was specifically labeled as "a collection of Marxist communities" and I disagree with the notion that people should collect together or identify collectively in that way because it often leads to the type of activity or thinking you described you encountered. People often begin to allow their identity to tell them what to think about something or view about something and in an echo chamber of other people doing that in my opinion it often ends up becoming like the flanderized characters on shows that run too long. It usually is something like 'I'm an artist, so obviously I take the side of whatever I think most aligns with what I think being an artist is because it reinforces to me that I'm an artist' and people don't even consciously realize that they're doing it. That's a lot how flanderization of characters works. So without diving into lemmygrad, I could reasonably guess that the type of content or viewpoints you described would exist there because I understand how humans who gather together around identities end up behaving.

As far as Nazi's holding the door or whatever the case is, if someone who identifies as a Nazi is capable of respectful and responsible behavior in public and follows all the rules of being out in public, then why should I restrict them from going out in public? Mind you I know you didn't say you wanted to restrict them, I'm not claiming that was your argument, but if we try to compare it to IRL then generally speaking either you have to inconvenience yourself to avoid a Nazi in public, or you have to restrict a Nazi from going out in public to avoid them, there's no realistic way to do it otherwise for IRL. Now on the internet, there's an expectation that there is a middle ground because it's not bound by the same limitations of real life and I think that's what you're saying that you're wanting. Again, I also blocked their communities so I don't think it's crazy to want that, but the development of the platform is starting from scratch and as I mentioned in my other comment, there is an open issue for it on github but it could take time before it gets implemented.

I don't know that there's really much more to say on it other than dessalines seemed to OK the idea, and there's sort of a "plan" for it to be implemented in that there's an open issue on github, and all anyone can do is either be a developer and code the solution themselves, or wait patiently for someone else to do it. Beyond that, in the meantime the only other thing you can do is sign up on an instance that is not federated with lemmygrad. Sopuli.xyz and feddit.de were some others mentioned that aren't federated with lemmygrad.

In the short time that I have been here I have seen multiple arguments in the comment sections that have arisen as a result of (in my opinion) lemmygrad users instigating those arguments. I don’t want to be even tempted to join into these arguments by seeing that they exist. And even if I do ignore them all and don’t get rage baited, knowing that they are there has the potential to negatively affect my mood. I will not do that and it would be silly to think that I am alone in feeling like this. Assuming there are waves of people coming from reddit many others will feel this way also and it absolutely will be one of many obstacles that make large scale adoption a challenge.

To counter that, I've seen plenty of lemmygrad users that were friendly and helpful.

I think the thing you have pointed out about users not having more control over instances has created some tension that probably bleeds over into how users interact with each other. You have users who are trying to avoid lemmygrad in their content feeds, which is fine, but have to be very vocal about it in order to get instances to block or remove federation linking with lemmygrad to better match the content these users want to see, even if lemmygrad users aren't breaking any rules. For lemmygrad users, that seems kinda unfair that they're getting excluded from federation simply because people don't see eye to eye with their world view and don't want to see much of the content they post regarding their worldviews. The lack of control given to users to block an instance quietly causes tension that shouldn't need to be there.

I'm saying this as someone who actually went through the effort of blocking most of the active communities on lemmygrad, so I also don't particularly want to see the content but I so far haven't felt like I had a problem with seeing comments from users on lemmygrad. I would much rather have had the option to just block the instance with a single click than spend more time having to find and block numerous communities.

I really don't even have a problem with seeing that particular ideology or perspective in content feeds, I don't like echo chambers so I'd rather get some exposure to different ideas and content even if I don't particularly agree with it rather than having some algorithm drive me into an echo chamber that causes problems in society and on a personal level mental health problems for people. But at the same time, I think that makes me not very fond of an instance that is centered around that identity, I think it encourages poor thought formation and poor personal growth for people to focus too much on what their identity is rather than just address individual ideas as they come on their own merit.

Edit to add: I'm no coder but I at least looked this up on github and here's the issue. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397 In that particular open issue it didn't show support from nutomic or dessalines, but you can see there was a closed issue mentioned in there where dessalines did voice support for the idea. Only problem is there is 163 open issues with varying degrees of priority, and that one has already been open for a long time so it seems like it is considered lower priority than some other issues. Maybe if more contributors hop in it might get addressed.