• aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    So much fearmongering. I’m new to Lemmy, and it seems to me that the Kamala campaign has infected Lemmy as well, just like they have Reddit. Looks like I’m not safe from leftist echochambers even after switching to Lemmy.

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      19 days ago

      If supporting Kamala is your definition of a leftist echochamber you clearly haven’t browsed Lemmy much

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          19 days ago

          Leftists on lemmygrad and hexbear don’t support Kamala. You’re on lemmy.world tho so I don’t blame you for not knowing.

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              19 days ago

              There are a lot of Lemmy instances (or lemmies) out there. I don’t even know how many my self 😅.

              Each instances are characterized by their set of rules and moderation styles. You can see them through join-lemmy.org/instances as well as their description. To see a user’s instance, just look at the domain after their username and the @.

              Usually each instances can decide if they want to be able to interact with users and communities from a certain instance. That’s called being federated.

              Sometimes tho they don’t think an instance’s userbase or community follows their rules, so they can decide to cut all interactions with them. That’s called being defederated.

              The instance you are on, lemmy.world, is ironically, very US centered, and is the most popular instance. It’s defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, so you will never see posts from them on lemmy.world unless it’s a screenshot or something.

              Since I’m on lemmy.ml tho, I can see posts from lemmy.world, hexbear and lemmygrad.

              The benifit of this is that each instance can curate their experience how they see fit. If you think a moderator is being too trigger-happy on an instance, or you don’t agree on how lenient they are (or whatever other reason), you can migrate to another instance. So let’s say you want to go to lemmy.ml (which I highly doubt you would, but just an example), you go into your account settings, export your data, create your lemmy.ml account and import it. Currently it doesn’t support importing comments, but the devs are working on it.

              I’m not the best at explaining things, but I’m sure !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca could help.

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                  18 days ago

                  They left out one other important thing - like how you can see and interpret with users on other instances, each instance also has its own communities, and the community names are also @ whichever server hosts them. For example, there are multiple politics communities.

                  And groups hosting a Lemmy instances range from the Lemmy devs to a bunch of tankies to instances like the one I’m from, which is run by a group called SDF that’s been around since the 80s and had its start as a dialup anime BBS.

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            19 days ago

            Hell, a large portion of us outside of grad and hexbear don’t exactly like Harris. Sure is a helluva lot better than a bald faced fascist though.

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      19 days ago

      Fearmongering? The republican presidential candidate talked about using the national guard / military on “radical leftists”/“the enemy within”. If that’s not a threat/fascism, what is?

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        That’s what I’ve been asking the magabrainz in my life when they object to the f-word. I ask them if this doesn’t count as fascism, what would count, in their view?

        So far, no cogent responses. All emoting.

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      19 days ago

      What exactly were you expecting when you shifted to the Reddit alternative whose main developers were communist? You’re either clueless or a bot.

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        19 days ago

        If you read my comment, I said I’m new here. That is my first ever comment here. How was I supposed to know that the website was being ran by tankies? I’ve jumped from the frying pan into the fire. I can’t escape far leftists. And they want to put a communist and a known warmonger in office. We’re so cooked.

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        19 days ago

        In their defence why would you expect them to know about the political stance of the devs?

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          19 days ago

          Honestly, I think they’re a troll account. In general Lemmy took a bit more effort for me personally to sign up to vs Reddit, I had to figure out an instance and roughly how it worked before signing up and the political stance of the devs came up. I mostly assumed most people went through a similar process.