I’ve not been here long, but I’m curious how users who were present before the reddit drama feel about any potential changes to the content and tone of discussions.

  • ██████████@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38126·
    1 year ago

    Yes it’s full of liberals now this used to be a leftist safe zone. Soon they will be mods and any dissent will result in permant ban

    Edit: libs proved me right so fast check those salty replies bet they even Reported me. Healthy discussion involved some heat love y’all

    • varzaman@lemm.eeEnglish
      60·
      1 year ago

      What? The whole point of Lemmy is to be defederated. A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

      • Kichae@kbin.social
        2521·
        1 year ago

        A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

        The leftist safe zone is and always was a lie, anyway. They’re just fascists LARPing as a communist vanguard.

        • Belgdore@lemm.eeEnglish
          131·
          1 year ago

          Vanguard ideology is the weakest point of Leninism. It always attracts those seeking power. But there’s nothing stopping a leftist group from owning a lemmy instance and banning everyone that disagrees with their flavor of leftism.

        • varzaman@lemm.eeEnglish
          2110·
          1 year ago

          I wasn’t gonna start a fight here though lol. The entire place was infested with tankies. The dude I responded to is probably a tankie.

          I laughed when the complaint was liberals invading Lemmy lmao.

    • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Eh… Instances are like countries and federations are like Alliances. A leftist safe zone still exist and they federate only with like minded instances.

    • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      ALSO would your solution be ONLY leftist mods, would they be any more or less likely to quash dissent and perma ban whatever they don’t like?

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        My experience is that most extremely ideologically driven communities tend to devolve into the same heavy-handed moderation tactics. I think this happens because it’s easier to imagine that the ends justify the means, and because small minority communities that are far from the larger consensus viewpoints are going to have issues with relatively large number of outside users coming in and wanting to debate or denigrate the fringe ideology.

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        162·
        1 year ago

        Well, yeah?

        Why would we want to be here when it was only a bunch of douches role playing as Stalin?

        Like I remember visiting when CTH left reddit and Lemmy has certainly come along way in having a functioning user base these past few weeks.

          • Sam@lemmy.ca
            13·
            1 year ago

            What does “here” refer to? You’re on Lemmy.world, your instance has never been a “leftist space” afaik.

            Lemmy is software, not a “space”. The network is ActivityPub, also not known for being “leftist”.

          • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Because it’s not a “leftist space.” It’s a federated Web platform with many communities. If any of you identipols want a safe space go setup some password protected forum somewhere.