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What's with users of fediverse using 'Go back to reddit' as a retort to other users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by calmblue75@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.

You can say 'Don't bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,' or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?

Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.

Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Somehow, it's way easier to get banned here than over there, though.

[–] sveltecider@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when CTH was banned for saying “kill slave owners”?

[–] Daxelman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Ooooh I wanna try this.

Kill Slave Owners.

Murder Slave Owner.

Absolutely turbo murder kill slave owners in real life no cap.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not if you know the forbidden Reddit terms. Try saying anything anti-Zionist on mainstream Reddit subs and you are banned in half a second by automated bots.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

That actually got me a temp ban here once, as well.

It was even a nuanced "both sides are human" take, not Hamas is awesome. I know, I wasn't expecting it either.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

~~"Nuanced"~~ Both sidesing in the face of a genocide? Condemning the oppressors and oppressed in equal measure? Do you not see the issue with that?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago

not Hamas is awesome

Should have been perma