Stop contributions to mass surveillance? Regain actual connections and news over slop? Being free to communicate without the watchful eye of the tech oligarchs?

Platforms such as Lemmy and Mastodon should be more popular than ever, and yet people only see the “crazy left” forming a critical mass of the user base to the point where unofficlal “rules of condct” become stricter than the oligarchs. We need people to stop purity testing and using algospeak to showcase why moving to Lemmy/Mastodon is a defensive move for free speech.

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
    31·
    6 days ago

    I mean if the sane privacy-preserving platforms are only full of “crazy left” people what does that say about the other social platforms?

    It’s really tiring when people label even the most moderate of logical opinions as “crazy left” — maybe there’s something wrong with your view of the world.

  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    5 days ago

    leftists make a platform for leftists
    Nooo you can’t have you own space stop purity testing

    Shut up, loser.

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    5 days ago

    “Purity test” usually just means having morals, and people who get called out for not having them get annoyed. Is that what you’re talking about or something else? Pls gib examples.

        • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
          9·
          5 days ago

          Yeah, so people can see the content that was removed, the reason given for the removal/ban and how long it was for.

          So we can see you were banned from several communities for commenting

          Good lil jankbot…daddy putin is getting his money’s worth today.

          Which was removed with the reason “Rule 2”, which is

          Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

          Jankbot being the name of the user who made the post you replied to.

          We can also see that you had another comment removed 14 days ago which said:

          The good ol jankshill has been a busy lil propagandist today. Putin’s got you working on weekends, hey? Hope you’re getting overtime for all this.

          You were not banned for that comment.

          I can only speculate, but I would hazard a guess that the ban was more about repeating the rule breaking behavior than anything else.

          Anyways, now you know.

          • charokol@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            4 days ago

            This is how I imagine everybody who comes to Lemmy claiming to have been banned somewhere else

            • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
              5·
              4 days ago

              I honestly love having the logs public. Some people have no issue saying the foulest shit and then complain about inappropriate bans but like…we have the receipts?

              I’m mildly disappointed this was just boring accusations of spreading propaganda and not something funnier 😅

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    5 days ago

    what are you talking about. anyone can make an account anywhere. the fediverse is not leftist communities although there may be many. its instances and communities within them that have lesser or greater amounts of specifics in how they operate.

  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    What do you mean by unofficial rules of conduct? Would rules in an individual instance or community count? Or more like other users replying negatively?

  • Iconoclast@feddit.ukEnglish
    32·
    5 days ago

    This applies in real life too - not just social media platforms. The extremists of your own side are often far more damaging to your cause than the ones on the other side of the aisle. It’s the loud minority keeping everyone else a hostage. I’d even go as far as to claim that much of the success of “the right” can be explained by the failures of “the left.”

    Interestingly, a similar thing is happening with pride. I know lots of other gay guys who want nothing to do with them simply because just being gay is no longer enough to be accepted into the group. No - you have to sign off on a big laundry list of other completely unrelated stances and if you don’t, you’re effectively straight and also fascist.

    The right has much less of an issue with me being gay than the left has with me not agreeing with (insert any far left grievance). It’s just one of the many examples of how it’s not that men are being pulled towards the right but rather being pushed there.