So what’s going on here, most likely, is that the intake of new users is declining as opposed to people specifically being driven off the platform (as some users allege).

The difference, one would assume, is that on the whole, Reddit’s political biases influence more what is not shown (much like lemmy.ml banning people for any criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea, or the echo chamber in hexbear), whereas Lemmy’s tankie issue also manifests as people actively sea-lioning (e.g. Cowbee) and (especially from hexbear) overt trolling, which shows up more in people’s faces. Both are issues, neither are good.

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 71 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Oh this thread has a rare goat appearance!

"brigading" being a silly accusation example #9586473

Also:

And I cannot think of any better example of that than hexbear.net, which is why I am such a fan of either outright defederation if that is the only option, or at least making that instance opt-in rather than force it to be opt-out, which apparently seems to cause many people to flee us and go either back to Reddit or to Bluesky or whatever, hence opting out of the entire Threadiverse. Basically: either hexbear goes, or the newbie users do.

Uncritical support to hexbear for single-handedly driving away fragile 'apolitical' redditors from the entire platform.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 13 hours ago

Uncritical support to hexbear for single-handedly driving away fragile ‘apolitical’ redditors from the entire platform.

this is a godsend imo and that along make lemmy far superior to reddit.

[–] wolfinthewoods@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours ago

The ghost of Joseph McCarthy haunts the minds of many Americans still...

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 15 hours ago

Goat getting angry at blaze for having multiple accounts not interacting with mowg? But ml is the issue? Lololol