It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.

I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.

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    But we have out fair share of Mao and Stalin lovers and Xi loveboys. It’s very simmilar. But I guess they are mostly contained to one or two instances.

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      Yeah, that also sucks, but on the other side Reddit had those too. Over half of leftist subreddits was plagued by them in fact.

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        I really liked /r/latestagecapitalism but I got banned for talking smack about China, and how the authoritarianism of the USSR and its child states didn’t line up with the values they tried to espouse.

        Permanently banned. Appeal ignored. Disappointing, but good riddance I suppose.

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        Indeed, people tend to forget that the left-right meet isn’t a half circle, but a full circle. You lean far enough one way on either side and you start wandering into the other side.

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            I wouldn’t say it’s fully bullshit. The far left and far right, despite having very different ultimate goals, do have one very significant common point in both being opposed to the status quo, and in that opposition, you see some common tactics and ideas develop, such as a tendency towards authoritarianism and an increased tolerance for violence.

            Consider that weirdest kind of leftist who’s so far down the “America bad” rabbit hole that they unironically support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite Russia being as close to a Christo-fascist sexist homophobic authoritarian hell hole as currently exists.

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          To true nothing pisses tribalists off more than pointing out there tribes only really differ in style.

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          When the destination is militant authoritarism and fascists, how you got to that point doesn’t really matter.

          Fascists, alt-right, tankies, and other extremists will kill any chance we have of talking normally in this place, so they cannot be allowed to take root in the mainstream instances.

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          horseshoe theory and the political compass are both kinda silly tho, left and right are more like collections of allied ideologies than a precise value that can be placed on a graph or spectrum.

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            Indeed, the world is far too complicated a place to be reduced to just one or two dimensions.

            I’m somewhat fond of the “8 Values” test, which reduces the world to four dimensions. Still way oversimplified, but at that point people are far more likely to compare themselves and see “we may differ on this axis but we actually agree on this other axis,” which is very helpful for discourse.

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      These instances are like pirate ships pursuing us.

      But they don’t write from their original instance name… nonono, I’m sure that they are popping up here with a fresh duplicate account:

      “Hello, let me explain some politics to you, but first let me nuke your reputation with a few multi accounts”.

      And you end up discussing with a whooping 5 downvotes as a starter. It gives the tone for the other people who want to discuss and see you as “this guy”.

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        This is one of the major benefits of upvotes/downvotes not being anonymous in activitypub, IMO. Anyone can run a bot that detects patterns like this and calls it out for all to see.

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        That’s like closing the eyes. I like tje political communities, that was the main reason I was on reddit.

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              They don’t have that power, they don’t control most of the instances, if they do that on their own instances that’s up to them. They couldn’t even secretly embed anything in the code to push an agenda since it’s open source.

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                They have that power on their own instance which is the “official” instance and very popular.

                And it just sucks that the software is associated with tankies.

                They could silently change their own instance if they wanted to, there has already been some nonsense with them blocking kbin useragents.

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                  There’s no “official instance”, it’s free software - lemmy.ml isn’t even a recommended instance at https://join-lemmy.org .

                  It’s you that’s perpetuating that association.

                  You can’t base your software choices on whether or not you agree with their creators political beliefs or else you won’t use anything. The creator of Javascript has expressed controversial opinions about same-sex marriage and most of the web uses it.

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                  It’s an open source, open contribution project. It has one maintainer who’s confused being angry at the capitalist class with a call to reflexively defend people who use the word “communism” to justify whatever they want, but he’s not “the devs”.

                  No none seems to care when for-profit projects are backed by the slime of the Earth. Actual fascist Peter Thiel financially backed Reddit a decade ago, and people didn’t care. And Tencent, with actual and direct ties to the CCP has been a major investor in Reddit for years now.

                  Reddit ran off of the direct support of white supremacists, anti-democracy advocates, and CCP supporters, and none of that was an issue for anyone until spez got stupid with some small developers.

                  The tankie guy’s political influence will be miniscule in the long run. You can’t say that about Thiel’s or Tencent’s.

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                It sucks that the official instance from the devs of the software denies human rights violations and supports authoritarian governments.

                That should not be where people land when looking for a reddit alternative.

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                  It’s not the “official instance”, though. There isn’t an “official instance.”

                  They’re the devs that got the software started, but anyone can be a dev or fork the repository. Or write a new compatible server from scratch, like kbin.

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                    We’re not even using their software now. It shows the power of open source that all of this can coexist peacefully despite differing opinions.

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          Thanks to the beauty of both open source models and activitypub, the fact that the lead developer is a tankie does not affect Lemmy users in any way because their sphere of influence ends at lemmygrad and lemmy.ml . If you’re a user of those instances and want out, you can just create another account in another instance and still can access any communities you want.

        • I keep hearing this, and I still don’t care. Being from America, I’ve never even heard that term.

          Reddit was run by a capitalist corporation. In America, the Left should hate that, but most of Reddit was decidedly liberal.

          See? It doesn’t matter. Use the platform or don’t. Block what you don’t want to see. People are going to post different opinions in public spaces.