People seem to be much more passionate about their stances here. Even when their stance is completely ridiculous and not rooted in reality. I've only blocked one person so far though (something I've REALLY tried not to do) and I've had a ton of good dialoge. You also can't really express any view that isn't far left.
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its there. I have seen it. its also not there. use the block. make the experience you want.
This. It got notably worse recently, so don't be too picky with that block button.
yeah I mean that being said don't block somone just for disagreeing and check thier profile and post and comment history to verify. There are some who were being rather dickish at times but I looked over and you know maybe they were having a bad day as their history was not like that all the time.
Now this is some S-tier trolling, the kind of thing that could've incited a weeks-long flame war back in the Usenet days. The key here is the lack of any specifics, so each reader can interpret the issue differently by filling in the details from their own experiences. And it's framed so that either I agree that Lemmy users have bad attitudes, or I disagree and prove it. *chef's kiss*
lack of any specifics
Bringing up specific examples would be counterproductive - the whole thread would just turn into a debate about those examples instead of staying on the actual point. The discussion isn't about what the disagreement is over; it's about what that disagreement looks like.
Yes, I agree, since the actual point is to generate lots of heated discussion without any resolution. Without any specifics, all that's left is vibes, and vibes are the best way to rile people up.
I've seen the opposite. I've enjoyed conversation's here and people generally have good facts to back up their point. There's a few assholes but way less than reddit. I'm worried it will get worse though.
That’s interesting that experiences can vary so widely here. People are way more rude here, I’ve found. And way more sexist. Or at least more sexist on the surface. At least on Reddit you’d have to seek out incel communities to see the more depraved views about women.
Reddit has normies now and Lemmy is more basement nerds so that's probably why.
Reddit has women now. Ftfy
Freedom of speech doesn't mean a guaranteed audience or platform.
You can write whatever you want. No one is required to read it. No one is required to host it. If they do read it, they can say whatever they want about it.
This is the fediverse. You can host your own instance and say whatever you want. No one else is required to federate with you.
If you post something and people say it's garbage, that's not your freedom of speech being quashed. You spoke. Now they are using their freedom of speech in response.
usually whenever someone complains about this sort of thing, it's because they got told off for espousing fascist bullshit, so please, elaborate for us.
Discrediting what someone says by questioning their underlying motives instead of engaging with the actual content is called ad hominem. Along with strawmanning, it's probably the number-one logical fallacy poisoning online discourse - and likely a major reason this whole discussion even started in the first place.
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Apparently we believe in freedom of speech—so long as the speech is something we agree with....
Freedom of speech isn't freedom from response. Some people have shitty opinions, and are too fragile to accept that people don't like them or their opinions.
And some people get upset when other people don't like AI and don't want it to do everything for them.
I'm going to struggle writing this because the logic is so hard to follow but db0 blocked my whole (GERMAN) instance because my (again, GERMAN) instance moderates against hate-speech against Jews, making us Zionist fascists, somehow.
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63525728
Look carefully at the modlogs in the screenshots and understand db0 admins think that it's the feddit.org mods that are in the wrong for removing the hateful comments. It took me several minutes to comprehend that the screenshots were supposed to be proof that Feddit.org people are Zionists, because the mods are removing hate-speech. The screenshots are NOT proof of hatespeech on Feddit against Palestinian people.
In the eyes of db0, the GERMAN INSTANCE IS EVIL because it doesn't platform enough anti-semitism.
The ANARCHIST instance is mad at the GERMAN INSTANCE for not allowing hateful rhetoric of Jewish people.
This whole DB0 vs. feddit.org situation is a joke. They’re using their "Anarchist Code of Conduct" to justify the exact kind of tribalist garbage it was supposed to stop.
The Code says you can’t disrespect or exclude people just for being part of some "unfavorable group." That got binned fast. Like you say, they're not even showcasing Feddit hosting Zionism, they're showcasing them removing hate-speech which aligns with their own damn Code of Conduct. The hypocrisy couldn't be more palpable.
That "democratic vote" is a joke too. The admins didn’t present a fair debate, they framed it as "Do you stand with the oppressed or with the fascists?" They loaded the language with terms like "Zionist bar problem" and "genocide apologia" to make sure the answer was obvious. That’s not democracy. That’s manipulation. That's blatant fucking propaganda.
It’s like they think anarchism means "do what we say or you’re the real fascists." Actually that's exactly what they think.
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