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Unlike previous attempts at trying reddit alternatives (like Voat), kbin and much of the lemmyverse doesn’t seem to be plagued with extreme far right buffoonery. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ferallettuce@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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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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[–] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's easy to just block the things you don't want to see. As long as the communities you use don't allow that stuff, they will be banned if they bring it there. The same thing would have happened if more people joined those other reddit alternatives, but no one was willing to do it.

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every time people are reminded that they are in control of their own experience here, they downvote and reply, "no! I want to control your experience too!" What a terrible attitude to have.

[–] BlueForestDev@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They have to control what you read and it's always the same argument. 'Dogwhistle', 'Groomer', 'Nazi', 'Pedo', etc...
Funny thing is you never see this IRL and it's only the terminally online who write like this. IRL discussions are much more mellow and you can talk with people about stuff, even controversial topics and you can always drop it and be good.

Every comment in this thread you could've found on reddit and copy pasted it here. Same quality of discourse.

[–] jcrm@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man if you're complaining about getting banned of dogwhistles, you should re-evaluate how you align yourself. It's not enough to just turn you attention away from the Nazi shit, it has to be stamped out. When we do the "well just don't look at it" thing, we allow them to keep recruiting and pulling vulnerable people in with their propaganda. Fascism is an evil ideology, flat out, and has no place in the world.

[–] BlueForestDev@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Try reading again. I dont get banned or complain about it.
Nice strawman. Building your own enemy how you want it.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

One major feature of IRL conversations that keep them more civil than online ones is that the downvote button can be a physical punch to the face.

Though granted, this does mean that sometimes IRL conversations can become far less civil than online ones once that button gets pushed.

[–] DreamySweet@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I joined VLemmy.net because they do not defederate with anyone and the admin made this post. Specifically the part where they said:

I feel it is important as many people have mentioned to “leave the power to the users” and let them decide the content they wish to see.

The great thing about the fediverse is that you can join a site that caters to what you want, or if it doesn't exist you can make it yourself.

[–] JasSmith@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think I need to make an account there.