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You guys are so screwed, I left Reddit cause of all the censorship and siding with the government.
I’ve had comment removed from this community for being incendiary, for saying Trump and ICE agents need to feel the force of the second amendment.
You guys are not even allowed to discuss anything further than a useless peaceful protest, or you get banned or shut down and silenced.
Even regular folk who mod on Lemmy are tripping over themselves to stop us from actually doing anything
.world communities are particularly squeamish about not toeing the corpo line.
Some things are best discussed privately.
No sub, on Lemmy or Reddit, is safe from power tripping mods. I'm currently dealing with a Lemmy mod on a few other Lemmy subs that's abusing his mod powers.
The bottom line is the other mods either need to step in and reign the bad mods in or remove them, or their sub dies. Seen it on Reddit plenty of times. But I've also seen Reddit mods that successfully removed their bad actors and then everything was fine. So it could go either way.
Everyone who isn't actively complicit is terrified of standing up and therefore standing out. It's a rational response and one we've been struggling with since the era of modern policing.
I see a lot of empty gestures towards "someone should do something". I see books like "How to Blow Up A Pipeline" and movies like "One Battle After Another" exemplify and valorize domestic insurrection. It isn't as though there's some total censorship. And we have plenty of nominal organs of resistance - from charity groups to gun clubs to local political caucuses - that could "do something" if they knew what exactly it was they were trying to do.
But relatively few people want to risk their lives and livelihoods to take a turn at being Revolutionaries. We don't have a revolutionary movement. We have a random collection of martyrs piling up in the street - people who did not wake up that morning and declare they were going to die for their cause, but were just swept up in the violence for the most token forms of resistance.
Lemmy mods don't have to try particularly hard to squelch something that isn't emergent.