Digg poweruser, joined reddit in the digg exodus, spent many years pissing off redditors through various projects, ShitRedditSays, HailCorporate, GamingCirclejerk, the fun ones come and go in waves of interest as the zeitgeist moves along.
Your memory is awful, or you haven’t been on it that long and are just making up its history to suit yourself. The earlier days of reddit’s politics were mostly liberal. Although liberals were significantly more awful on social issues back then than they are today.
I absolutely agree. I also think the irritating environment created by the current digital red scare trend will eventually subside once they move onto some new scare words because the existing ones are losing their edge.
Well the first thing to understand is that they’re statists, and all statists are authoritarians by default. Every state seeks to preserve itself and so every state will use authority when it is faced with potential destruction. This is not inherently a bad thing, it obviously depends on the government in question, and who is trying to destroy it, and why. Obviously I as a socialist defend the use of authority to protect the continued existence a socialist state. Liberals tend to always justify the use of authoritarian means used by whoever they support, and then they are intellectually dishonest and pretend that somehow their use of authority isn’t “authoritarian”.
Additionally, democracy itself is authoritarian. It is the means by which the democratic will of the people express its authority, by means of force. What happens if someone picks up a gun and tries to oppose the democratic consensus? Do you just sit by and let the democracy be destroyed? No, the democratic state uses its own authority to oppress the opposition.
There is no such thing as a distinction between “democracy” and “authoritarian”. It’s a meaningless buzzword. The opposite of a democracy is an autocracy or an oligarchy, not “authoritarian”. The use of this word in modern day political discourse is just something westerners fling at other people’s democracies they don’t like for daring to vote for something against US interests and want to see them blown up and millions killed and displaced.
I’m not sure if I need to get into the record of liberals on war. Both world wars, and the history of almost every war in the last hundred years not involving a socialist state. There’s also the question of the massive ideological mass murders liberals have carried out, but that’s a much bigger issue explored in things like The Jakarta Method, which I warn you is really really horrific reading.
Why don’t liberals “scan the same” to you? They are far bigger authoritarians than marxist-leninists. Is it just generally because the average liberal is politically checked out and you don’t come across the politically active ones because they hide themselves inside the status quo and hegemony better?
I personally don’t really vibe with either of the above for the record. My preferred space is Hexbear which is more of a loose left-coalition of MLs demsocs and anarchists than one ideology like the other two, which I’ll probably use my other accounts from when it federates. I’m not a fan of the sectarian spaces, sectarianism doesn’t help us build power when we’re powerless.
The average 4chan user is a far right psychopath that hates communists and wants us all executed and it has been that way for over a decade. There is no left on that site. Leftypol is the communist version of an anonymous imageboard. https://leftypol.org/leftypol/
4channers don’t get to call the culture of anything bad. 4chan culture was always bad and the far right were the vast majority of the site long before 2016.
Breaking through this and getting moderators to migrate is key to killing reddit and booming lemmy. The act of having the mods create communities on lemmy then sticky comment/post their new lemmy communities for the userbase will bring over tens of thousands of new users. Far more than currently exist here.
Hostility to them won’t help, it’s more likely to make them reluctant to move over. I mod several communities, some for 12 years, and I’ve had a bad time trying to engage with the instance admins here and came up against complete pigheadedness from one instance we reached out to, we’ve had other modteams give us similar stories in the mod backrooms too. These experiences risk alienating the people with the highest amount of power to make migrating off reddit a success, having the userbase here doing it too on top of that will just guarantee that the hesitant steps some are making will end up stopping entirely.
I think attacking the mods like this is similar to attacking a person in an abusive relationship. It’s more complicated than that when they feel so attached to the product of what is in some cases thousands of hours of work put into their communities that they’ve built for over a decade.
Don’t attack the victims. Attack the abuser. I’m glad that it was easy for you to leave the abusive relationship but it’s not easy for everyone. The same psychology is at play.
Place has always been a bit shit. The first time was interesting and novel because all the factions emerged with different ideologies that actually created personas and identities for themselves, but ever since then it’s just been 50/50 nationalism or consumer products. There’s so many more interesting things that could be painted and yet half of it will be flags of bourgeoise states.
I think it’s fine going offtopic. We shouldn’t be afraid of having real social interactions with one another. In fact, I think we should promote it across all lemmys. Real conversation instead of vote or tech-driven rules bullshit is far more human. It creates real connections at a more distinct and likeable level, even if those conversations end up in disagreement everyone at least acknowledges the other person is a real person with emotions rather than a username on the internet. With small communities in particular this is important because people have good and bad days. In communities where people become regularly recognisable it’s important people also understand that when someone inevitably pops off out-of-character on one of their particularly bad days.
That’s fair. Hexbear actually ended up without downvotes specifically because trans people and admins recognised that trans threads were getting downvoted on the sly, targeted. This was used to purge them and follow up with the establishment of what is probably one of the best cultures around lgbt issues online, in my opinion anyway. There will certainly be some issues a liberal disagrees with the community on, and even certain segments of the left. But in terms of lgbt people it’s honestly tip of the spear for how shit should be handled online. I have a take that places that put pronouns in profile pages instead of next to usernames are cowards trying to hide lgbt features from phobes while performing to lgbt people via them. They should be displayed.
(I am part of frequently-targeted groups, and no platform is free of bigots and trolls)
Hexbear is completely free of that rubbish and well established since it’s been on lemmy for 3 years now. It is also the only instance with visible pronouns next to usernames. Really depends on your politics however as it’s a mixed communist + anarchist community.
Digg poweruser, joined reddit in the digg exodus, spent many years pissing off redditors through various projects, ShitRedditSays, HailCorporate, GamingCirclejerk, the fun ones come and go in waves of interest as the zeitgeist moves along.
Been on lemmy for 3 years already now.