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Dunno if it really fits here, but I figured it was worth sharing and there isn't anywhere else it would go

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

I found this really relatable, as someone who used to be a mod on a Lemmy instance before I basically got run out of the server I was on by intolerant bigots. Everything came to a head with this brigade on the server's admin (who is a good dude as far as I can tell):

https://feddit.nl/post/30629695

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40329206

Leading up to this, leftist trolls had been brigading my communities, throwing fits about me sharing left wing articles and flooding my posts with downvotes. I didn't mind the downvotes because Lemmy is a leftist platform at the end of the day, but did make a rule against "I don't like that website" comments because it amounted to spam.

It is difficult to cultivate flourishing communities centered around news, current events, or politics on Lemmy that isn't a BlueAnon echo chamber. This is why I am here (using Lotide) and don't plan on using Lemmy again anytime soon. The community is far too toxic and propagandized to be a healthy place for political discourse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Technically, lemmy is just using a protocol that allows it to federate with other people using that protocol. Many of the leftist went to Lemmy because they were kicked off the other platforms for the Nazi Bar Problem. The developers of lemmy didn't create the protocol. They are using Lemmy as their version of the software using that protocol. The same protocol used by threads, etc

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

Fair enough, I really am speaking of Lemmy so broadly because 99% of Lemmy instances are leftist. Culturally and politically it is wayyyyyyy more homogeneous than even Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For this style of instance. They’re about the only game in town. The others haven’t grown or failed. I will give the lemmy developers credit. They’re dragged this software along where other have failed. I believe this is classified as a link aggregator.

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

Yes the Lemmy software is great. It's why I came back to Lemmy, I had actually checked it out once and then ended up leaving several years ago.

I know there are mbin and PieFed but IDK how good they are. I know that PieFed does have some federation issues with Lotide (which is what I am using).