To be more precise, people here are more like themselves and don't use self-censorship, communicating like bots.
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I self censor a ton on here, are you kidding me? I have blocked every news and politics related instance I could find and still, the instances that are left are filled with political brain rot from the most unhinged extremist black and white thinking leftists online.
The only reason I'm still here is because I have a small handful of instances that I actually enjoy frequenting, where people are trying to make a healthy environment to speak with one another and share thoughts and ideas that aren't always about politics.
The only true positive about Lemmy is that it isn't a corporate entity with carefully curated ads, algorithms and tons of bots. However, Lemmy is proof that the corporate model has trained us all so well over the past decade to think that being online is all about getting mad at politics and each other so we are basically perpetuating the bullshit trends they started like the brain dead lemmings we are.
To me Lemmy is no different than any other social media platform that thrives on hate, yet somehow thinks its unique and/or enlightened. It's a shame because there a lot of potential here to make something that unites people instead of continuing the echo chamber model that the big corporations have worked hard to put us all in because it earns them money to keep us angry with one another.
But whatever. All these "big thinkers" on here thinks their time is best spend screaming at each other and calling everyone they disagree with a fascist so who cares about trying to build a better online community? I'll keep blocking shit until I only have the productive instances left.
This enlightened centrism bs that pretends that "divide" is some simple concept that needs to be attacked by "both sides" is just either the absolute laziest way to sift through issues or purposefully malicious.
Interesting that to you "productive" is quite literally the opposite of productive, and really appears to just mean places that agree with your enlightened centrism.
This part right here is just a wild baseless theory, and sounds extremely privileged to think that discussing serious issues that are especially important right now means "being online is all about getting mad at politics and each other so we are basically perpetuating the bullshit trends they started like the brain dead lemmings we are."
Very brave, and VERY well fucking said!
Brave? What a joke!
Ya wtf is up with eevery Meme sublemmy just being politics? That shit should STAY in a politics sublemmy. I don't go to Memes to be sad and angry, I go to Memes to ESCAPE and ENJOY myself.
I had such hope for Lemmy, but its just a cesspool of hateful extremists with a handful of people trying to genuinely enjoy themselves.
Lemmy is where smug leftists go to see which one of them can outrage the most people.
Because it's primarily people who care about politics and their personal choice in regards to politics in regards to corps that caused them to join lemmy, predisposing lemmy to politics
No one cares about you or your desire to make the internet for you and about your fucking views.
And they should not either. You pathetic crybaby clowns 🤡
Avoiding topics isn't self-censorship. It's when you curtail your own expression, so stuff like f*#@ or even euphemisms like "heck".
OP was probably referring to the annoying trend of memes with censored words like "sex" or "kill".
These get posted all the time, but at least there's always a couple people calling out OP for being lazy.
I kinda feel the opposite.
Self censorship is when you refrain from engaging in certain topics, not when you do blatantly obvious word replacement. Censorship is about preventing the dissemination of ideas, not the dissemination of words.
Self censoring can also be when you avoid talking about an entire topic. But you're right, it's not when you block a community or person.
True, I could have written that better.
Sure, blocking people and instances isn't exactly self censorship, but it was something I started doing after experiencing multiple instances of people attacking me for words I used, assuming I was a fascist for using a word they apparently got triggered by and completely ignoring and flat out lying about the context of me using the word in my comment. One time it was the word woke. Apparently you can't write that in any comment in any context without being a fascist to these idiots.
It was a very disappointing experience to be attacked like that by people who would twist the observable truth to make shit up about you when this was supposed to be a place where people could talk freely. So I started avoiding topics and using certain words while on here even after blocking instances and people. Mostly because I just don't feel like having to deal with psychotic retards who think reality and context doesn't matter and that anything to the right of total communist domination is fascism. . . Which is a bit ironic, ngl.
But sure, if people want to focus on words like sex or kill as a bar for Lemmy not having self censorship, they can enjoy that delusion. My personal experience is that having any opinion that isn't pro violent revolution and using words deemed no-no words by the brainrotted masses, makes you free game to harass and attack and lie about.
I have, to put it very frankly, never truly met as unhinged and unpleasant people online as I have here. The closest I have gotten in the past was when I was observing the self implosion of the online alt right in 2018. They might be able to compete with Lemmy leftists as being some of the most unhinged and divorced from reality nutcases I have met online. And when you find yourself surrounded by people like that, you will self censor or stay entirely silent until you have removed yourself fully from their orbit.
Is the word "degenerates"?
No.
💯Lemmy is dominated by leftist extremists and insufferable Linux advocates. Then there’s a large section of the mentally unwell. And a whole category of communities filled with automated copies of Reddit posts and zero comments.
Happy healthy well adjusted and successful people are not Lemmy. It’s mostly the lunatic fringe.
The modding of communities into echo chambers is more extreme than on Reddit even. Productive political debate is impossible here.
I mean, you don't have to be on here. Go make your own instance with blackjack and hookers.
It's not really surprising that self hosted decentralized open source platforms became popular with the Linux crowd, and it's not really surprising that the Linux crowd are leftists.
But they were nice enough to let you use their work for free so you can make your own little part of the Internet that has the things you want
Honestly, my experience is that the Linux crowd are some of the most wholesome people on here, but otherwise I mostly agree with you. I was very quickly disillusioned about this platform being any better than all the social media shit I had just left behind. There are still good people and instances here and I hold on to the ones I have found, but the rest of my Lemmy experience has been very disappointing.
What would make it better? What would a perfect social media experience look like?
There is no perfect social media experience. Politics can and will and have always been a part of people interacting online, but it used to be more balanced where people would also talk about their interests and geek out about things that makes them, you know, happy.
Lemmy has plenty of potential to have that balance, but politics bleeds into everything and when I say politics I mean the most angry, vitriolic and hateful version of it. There are ways to talk about politics where it is fruitful, interesting and enlightening. On Lemmy it is none of those things. It is just angry people projecting their misery onto everyone and everything around them. It doesn't get dumber than that and I want no part of it, so I block it.
Ignoring politics doesn't make them go away. You're only making your life worse for yourself if you're not saying on top of the latest political news and not voting in every election.
I use Lemmy in the same way I used Reddit back in the day: a time waster at work.
I don't need to be reminded that life is shit while I'm at work. I know that, I'm at fucking work!
I get enough political bullshit outside of Reddit/Lemmy, thanks.
That's true but you don't have to participate in all the click bait and more importantly not be the click bait yourself.
Who said I'm ignoring politics? And btw using Lemmy to "stay informed" on politics is as goofy as using reddit, youtube or Facebook to "stay informed". Social medias and politics is nothing but echo chambers where people leave their brains at home and go to scream at each other and be as unproductive as possible. It is brainrot.
I listen ti the news, talk to people in my real life and check official news sites when I want to get updated on the news. I don't go to gossip sites like this where mentally ill people scream about fascism in every thread.
A perfect example of their point.
Sounds familiar. We can be downvote-and-report buddies!
And yet still decisive bullshit posting from some newfound conservative bullshitter. Its the liberals and their black and white thinking. Conservatives are literally rounding up innocent people. And your complicit in it all motherfucker
Nobody needed to "see how it is", this was always about you not being seen not participating enough.
Politics do matter. Quite a bit obviously. And there are people participating and likely improving themselves and others as a result. Its important, even if you don't see that. You could participate of course call out bullshit and improve the situation and make improvements yourself. But youre a lazy donothing fuckstick I guess so how about you just go entertain yourself instead you next-to-useless, barely sentient shitheel.
Tired of politics? Ok grand. Youre tired of politics now let me tell you how political it all is all underhanded and elitist like? Get fucked.
You know, you could just admit that politics may be super important to people, especially right now, but its SO much the kind of bullshit you don't like and full of exhausting disingenuous persons you are not ready to participate with, which is the truth youre likely subject to here. That and how youre guilty as sin on HOW it BECAME that way and now you dont want a reminder of the hyper political fallout of the bullshit you helped to set up. Either by apathy to it, or by dividing it yourself through your vote and through your IRL shit talking shit-heel buddies.
Looks like you really don't want people to see that shit cause it makes those pesky feels manifest themselves. So you go out and make some really pathetic smartass excuses about the situation and all the other dumb assholes think that's the end of that. Because in your simple-minded coward brains that means you've won at everything. While were all getting screwed. Same exact thing used in, guess what, politics.
You chuckfucks might be alright IN politics. Doublespeaking, hypocritical, and egotistical all wrapped up in some desire to take yourself all serious and then believe your takes (ie, opinions) actually trump the brutal reality. And that you are really simply just trying to avoid that reality altogether. Likely to avoid the aforementioned guilt, complacency and hyper awareness of your lack of meaningful power.
You can't handle it. So go read a book or something stop commenting on the internet
Or dont, and I'll be here, trying to improve everything 😎👍
You serve as a perfect example of everything they said. And because it’s people like you that scream the loudest- it’s people like you that serve as an example of what lemmy is:
An obnoxious, nuance-deprived, wind-tunnel of smug blowhard pseudo-intellectuals slobbering over one another’s rhetoric.
And the irony of how you seem to have become absolutely and entirely unhinged because someone doesn’t care for your brand of arrogant political paychobabble only serves to emphasize their point.
They 100% spot-on fucking nailed it.
I’ll digress- You’re incredibly embarrassing, and it’s a huge bummer that clowns like you represent this place.
Now, by all means- Spare no expense in your return salvo. I’d expect nothing less. And while the diatribe of an enraged debate-bro is often something to behold, I’m afraid that I’m going to have to miss out on it.
Blocked.
(before I go, please. Promise someone that you’ll do better- and then do it)
You called out political arrogant psychobabble and you posted that? I know its not cool to make fun of the differently abled but I'm def making an exception here lol
Your pathetic meandering peasant talk isn't impressive, or insightful but it was fun to read, like a children's book meant for the most basic bastards alive
You sound like some tinder girl proud of herself for calling out her first asshole
You've improved me by reminding myself to block people like you more often. Thanks dude.
You wished and I delivered, you are just one welcome coward 👍