Ask Lemmy

Let's not paint Lemmy as a whole based on .ml. It is, notoriously, the dumpsterfire of the Fediverse.

Edit: Like minded people sharing and discussing is not an echochamber, at least until you start excluding good faith points of view because they challenge your beliefs.

Ignoring, downvoting and censoring bad faith rhetoric, like most of .ml, or US Maga, Russian agitprop, Chinese propaganda and similar dis/misinformation is perfectly reasonable and logical. Same goes for domestically produced bullshit.

There's a reason why .ml is defederated of many instances and so many other people have the whole instance blocked. They are... not the best of the fediverse.

Lemmy is a neutral, open-minded, safe community?

A community cannot both be neutral and safe. Being safe involves picking a side and pushing back against harmful shit. Being neutral involves letting the harmful shit slide, as long as it's hate presented in a civil and polite fashion.

Which is to say, I have absolutely zero interest in a "neutral" community.

I think your missing the point of federation. If some place is crappy or you feel its run by crappy folks you can go to another or start your own. You could sorta do that on reddit but ultimately it went to a single authority. Whats nice here is I can hang or places or not. This gets back to my big thing. Blocking. Instances should avoid blocking and such as much as possible but users should do it liberally. This piss you off. Block the community so you don't accidentally engage with it in future. We literally can make the experience we want and the whole. you will put yourself in a bubble thing. thats fine. I put myself in a bubble any time I decide to hang out in place or folks in the real world or avoid places and folks. im fine with that. When the internet was smaller and not so full of trump it was maybe I wanted to see everything but now Im more looking to avoid the trumpy trump that is all over the place.

Fantasizing about participating in a war is pretty shitty, regardless of whether or not non-human targets exist. You could fantasize about winning a drone racing or stunt competition instead and look way less psychopathic.

This question is hard to answer considering how low interactions with Lemmy.ml we try to have.

You're right about the bias.

I propose you look for an instance that does not federate with .ml

Lemmy is pretty tolerant compared to Reddit. Having said that, .ml is a tankie hellscape that is the lefts version of maga.

(a) In all seriousness, people, unless you're specifically into that sort of thing, just don't use lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or lemmy.ml communities. Going there, having a bad time, and then coming back and reporting on other instances how much things suck there just wastes your time and wastes the time of people who are already avoiding those instances.

(b) If you specifically want to complain about conditions there, there's a whole community dedicated to that, !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works. Or if you want to complain specifically about moderator/admin actions, !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

I see so much hate for ml but every conversation ive had with a ml or MLM is fine and very thoughtful. Whats the issues?