Conservatives

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.

This was a good read.

Do I post too often in the communities I engage in?

This right here sums it up nicely:

The whole shtick with Fediseer is to pressure instances into falling in line under threat of defederation. It's reasonably effective, most small instances would struggle when cut off from chunks of the federated network they're trying to be a part of.

I also think most Admins probably hope to get some money coming in through donations, and you need to be reasonably vanilla and attract new people for that to work.

We really don't need donations to keep running, in fact we don't even ask. I'll be damned if I let some random Internet dude with an over-inflated sense of self-importance tell me who I can or can't allow on the instance I run as a hobby, as to not offend his political sensibilities.

@[email protected] I meant this as a reply to your post but failed.