crowlemo

If only the US democrats and republicans hasn't lobbied and pushed for this war to happen.

Oh I'm sorry. Forgot you can't say that and we have to pretend Russia woke up one day and decided to invade... Sigh.

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.

No it's not. And for every account you don't have a shared history. You don't build a community.

Also, which are those apps you talk about? Because Jerboa doesn't seem to be great for that. Switching between accounts is needed and quite annoying.

We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit

No. You're way more beholden. The adminmod rules it all. What you see, who they federate, etc and it's all defended by rabid users because "if you don't like it leave and build your own instance*". It's not about community but instance owner absolute power.

Doesn't quite work unless you're absolutely in line with whichever narrative is happening. The echo chambers are bigger and the consequential toxicity upon dissent, much bigger.

Conspiracy theories mean nothing at this point. Misinformation means whatever the gov, health corp or tech corp says it is.

And when the "misinformation" turns out to be true it's promptly ignored and the goalposts are moved or narrative reframed.

The absolute human rights abuses perpetrated in the name of covid policies while politicians where following none of the BS they imposed unto others was staggering.

But hey, that's not even arguing about the harms of lockdowns, the inefficacy of Vaccines, the violence of enforcement and encroachment of civil rights, the total lack of debate, which you and other authortiarians.happily push. The calls for death, harm and even camps for those who dissented.

The dehumanization and censorship in a dark period of history. Many regret their absolutely support but there's still plenty of fanatics like you who want to keep the blinders on.

Obviously, a place like this who deems itself left but it's only in name and not in practice, will claim that crushing authortiarianism for the greater good is exactly what the doctor (pun intended) ordereded.

Can you suggest that smaller instance? Meeaw and sh.it, the 2 instances I tried keep defederating left and right and justifying bullying as long as it confirms to their political opinions.

It's hypocritical, circlejerky and boring. Made me go back to Reddit. I don't understand how this paradigm of no user control without the absurd friction of self hosting is better for the user unless you're a niche authoritarian who is fully subservient to some admin.

The friction is too high each time. Compared to Reddit without offering that much value. Hell, that Blocklist admin is good and owns your user Paradigm makes for very inflexible and circlejerky interactions

Love it or leave means total consent or fuck you. That's not a community. It's a cult.

Nazi shit. A big claim. I don't care to talk with people who sees Nazis everywhere, you're exactly the type of authortiarian user I'm talking about.

If my country has a different policy than your political party of choice, probably in the US, then suddenly I'm a nazi for even having an opinion. Don't worry, I'm also a nazi for being against X war and a nazi for being for free speech, and a baby killer for X in another more pro abortion place and whatever.

Lame thinskinned authortiarians are exactly those who are attracted with this insanely top down lemmyworld. The type that will seek a cause and a self defined victimhood status in order to have different rules so they can abuse others, because you're right and it's "the greater good".

Yes. I also can develop my own social website. Both are efforts that are not worth it to undertake to just participate in this environment, which, will make the default barrier of entry a ridiculous one (or an authortiarian minded one).

No. It's not. When the power is on decentralized Ids that the instance doesn't have so much power over, then it will be more interesting. As it stands, it offers actually less than Reddit, which is incredible to me (I'm super onboard with descentralization and user power but this is not user power).