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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

There's concerted efforts by actual nazis to shit this place up because they see it as a genuine threat.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well feddit.de is down for quite a while now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Only the front-end of feddit.de has serious problems, right ? Why would the maintainers not run another front-end (e.g. Elk) on the same server and redirect their broken front-end link to that as work-around for web users ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Influx of libs. It's a sign of success for the platform, but holy fuck lemmy.world posters are annoying

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What sort of things out them as "libs"?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Anything that suggests you believe the current state of the world is acceptable outs you as a lib. Saying things like "Yeah Biden's got some problems, but at least he didn't do a few of the things trump did." If you believe that things would have been fine were it not for trump, you're a lib. Or a moron, I cant always tell the difference.

Heres a great summary of liberalism: "If we put forward good policies into the politics machine, then other people will too, and because I have absolute faith in the system established by a bunch of slave owners, whatever comes out MUST be just and good." Which of course implies that if the result you want or need DOESNT come out of the politics machine, it is right and just that you should not get it.

Like, they fundamentally don't realize that the politics machine is capable of breaking, and that it has been broken for a LONG time (basically the moment it was asked to value the needs of someone who wasn't wealthy, white, and male.)

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm. Let me check my inbox. One lib is complaining about leftists. Another is talking about "harm reduction" in the context of genocide

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I don't know if I want to know more about this second person... I'm gonna go with not

Edit: i shouldn't have scrolled further

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm... Today I learned that lemmy.world is the biggest Lemmy instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It's usually the first listed in any guide on how to start using Lemmy, so it tends to get a lot of new-to-the-fediverse users. It's presumably where I would have ended up, if there wasn't a country-specific instance for me

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

".ml keeps saying things I don't like, defederate!"

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The level of aggressive comments....

It's devolving quickly into Reddit. Everything is either black or white, dog shit or a miracle... No nuance

Increasingly people attack people instead of ideas when commenting

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think it's worse here than on reddit when it comes to this. Redditors these days (*takes out the walker and cane*) are shitty, but I feel like I'm somewhat insulated from a lot of it due to where I lurk/participate on reddit. But on Lemmy, I see it pretty much everywhere. Smaller userbase compared to reddit, so maybe the rudeness is more visible.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Please report aggressive / toxic comments as a rule 2 violation here. We can and should do better than reddit when it comes to being respectful and kind to each other.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Lots of support for a genocide, thought this place was better than Reddit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't have an account long enough but browsed through the different instances enough and I've never seen anything about genocide.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They're talking about Gaza, fam. Specifically, continued funding for Israel and babbling about "realpolitik"

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

More like lots of having to refute dumb arguments that imply choosing harm reduction is the same thing as endorsing harm.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"harm reduction" in the context of genocide is absolutely wild. It's a genocide, not a heroin habit

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I want no genocide. My choices are: vote for a candidate that would make the genocide worse, while complaining they're supporting a genocide, or vote for a candidate that would more or less do nothing about it, while complaining they're ineffectual at stopping the genocide.

How can you not see one of those two options is better?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

That genocide supporter oughta Genocide Biden and the other do nothing one oughta Peaceful Trump I see.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Biden isnt "doing nothing", he's actively making it worse. He is directly complicit. How do you not see this?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Okay, does that actually change the choice you make? You only have two practical options when it comes to voting. I said do nothing because the government's policy on Israel effectively hasn't changed now that they've started a genocide (or rather, really ramped up their genocide). In that sense, he's doing nothing. But again, does that change the choice you make in order to end up with the world closest to what you want?

[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago

Found the genocide supporter

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Redditors have been showing up, and lemmy mods are behaving more and more like the very thing redditors wanted to leave reddit for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

People with unchecked power being unreasonable! I'm shocked! Shocked!

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