I'm curious if you feel the same way about Italy and nearly every other country already banning protests because "it's for yours or others safety" like they dd when they passed extremely Draconian covid policies.
And this is not hypothetical. Police didn't allow people to manifest against the gov.
What you say is bad, but it I hope people would be consistently appalled. Not just partisan based.
They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you're a nazi. You don't like it? Make your own instance.
Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don't depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.
Actually defederated as it works here means one party has way more power than in centralized Reddit.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/511746
It ruins it for anyone who is not deeply in agreement with the admins.
It's admins and groupthink over users. And zero stability or discoverability. Friction with little to gain unless you're in authoritarian lockstep
That can be used by any authoritarian claiming to be the greatest good.
It's great to bully and censor but inevitably ends in subjugation.
That's the types that want this end up in very small circles or simply agreeing with whatever authority sells.
Except the user had actually more power to create a positive experience with heterogeneous content in the centralized Reddit than here.
The problem is that this and other places were sold as reddit alternatives and they're actually worse than Reddit in that, on Reddit , with one account you could choose what to see and when (akin to controlling your own federation). If you didn't like a mod team you could choose another sub easily. Same account. You could keep looking at the same place too.
Federation at the admin of an instance level means all that has a high cost (account per instance), you don't get to see all at once due to the need to switch accounts and communities are fragmented.
There's also a very clear thin skinned authoritarian attitude that seems to promote bullying against any type of dissent while claiming some sort of moral authority.
Lemmy is broken as a Reddit replacement. By not having the onus on the user but on the admin, and seeing the attitudes from the recommended major instances, it has little chance to generate diverse or interesting content and communities. Just very narrow and small, toe the line places with poor discoverability.
Shame.
Edit: in Reddit communities were above mods. In Lemmy, it's potentially/in practice whiny Mods complaining about anyone in their community that doesn't fully agree with them and having the power to completely ruin their account. Much worse.
How isn't it political? TD was a rare manifest of a different idea having prominence and being subsequently attacked because "how dare it exist" at which point it went full "attack back" ans it became a ridiculous battle until the admins of Reddit decided they would go back to controlling narratives because the ad money wasn't that good.
Same as trump being banned for twitter. It IS political. There's one political party in the US that is treated as "literally evil" and we are supposed to get on board and fight amongst each other instead of pointing how corrupt and entrenches the parties are and.how auperficial de battle. Is.
But hey, if we pretend the whole world things in US terms and that anyone who doesn't subscribe to identity politics and bullying with self perceived moral superiority then of course TD and similar "wrongthink" has to be banned.
Except I'm not American but I'm responding to a post about TD which triggers too many people by simply existing apparently. I wouldn't have even known if this post didn't say it.
And I don't agree with your take. I think the whole left right dichotomies are usually quite bs and people want to bundle stuff like a cellphone plan and most people just go along with no capacity to think for themselves.
And the same goes for anything else. You don't like r/politics being a bastion for US democrat biased ans bullshit propaganda? Block it. You don't want to see republicans talking about being republican (the horror), block it.
And don't pretend we all need to agree on everything and be as shittily outraged with the next US centric Google manipulated narrative.
Everyone i don't like is a Nazi/tankie/label. The internet is so predictable and boring around this.
Doesn't help when tech has sided with one US political party and we have to pretend that people need to fight amongst each other on identity bullshit issues instead of the political and corporate class doing whatever they want with their power imbalance
But hey, blue Vs red, this Vs that. Cry victim and bully...
We need users to curate their own content instead of demanding circlejerks of identical ideology and inconsistent rules.
Tough learning curve but yeah, one of the most impressive procedurally generated games out there.
There's plenty roguelikes/terminal games with procedurally generated content as well. ADOM or nethack are two of the most popular examples.
Lol. Fuck off. Objective consensus? Are you part of team "trust the science" thinking every fucking study is well done or non biased?