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I’m happy simply because it will cut down on conservative content elsewhere and I can simply filter the community lmao.
I think more people should follow your example, to be honest.
I prefer people block them, rather than calling for them to be banned. Conservatives have just as much of a right to be here as liberals.
Don’t know why this was downvoted.
I likely have an even more cynical take on American “conservatives” than those who are often labelled woke (and paradoxically I don’t always agree with), yet I don’t see the big deal with having a conservative community/instance or whatever.
I mean, Lemmy is rife with tankies; it doesn’t get much worse than that.
Because Lemmy very much wants an echo-chamber. Even tho many say they left Reddit to get out of echo-chambers.
I’ve seen lots of posts saying variations of, “I don’t think the Fediverse should allow conservative communites.” lol
FWIW, I think the term “echo-chamber” is way overused, almost to the point of being meaningless. I also don’t believe in the sincerity and coherence of American-style conceptions of “free speech”.
“Fediverse shouldn’t allow convervatives communities” is nuts though. This is not workable from a practical perspective (forget the moral questions for a second).
Racism, overt dehumanisation, denial of widely accepted mass scale human rights abuses; that’s something that can be managed from a moderation standpoint. But this would impact groups across the political spectrum (nazies, tankies, some far right, some far left).
The paradox of intolerance: tolerating intolerance immediately results in an intolerant society.
There are various paradoxes and limitations inherent to a socially liberal society (not including the obvious issues of capitalism) that have been exploited by billionaires, fascists, strongmen, religious nuts and many others.
FWIW, I think the term “echo-chamber” is way overused
Fair point! I agree with all your points made.
I should clarify and say that I think Lemmy very much wants to erase all conservative content from the fediverse. Which is totally against what the fediverse stands for.
There are a number of conservative instances that have popped up. I have yet to see any actual discussion. My experience has been that conservatives get their marching orders from fox news or a few other places and don’t give it any thought. When I visit my Trumper relatives, I know exactly what they will be bitching about. Doesn’t matter if it’s untrue, like Bidens open borders.
Then block them. They don’t have to be banned though.
No thanks! I decided when I switched to lemmy I was gonna avoid politics communities.
I’ve subscribed. Thanks for posting it despite the chilly reception
Me too!
Np! Anytime 😊
Thank you for supporting this, even tho it goes against the wave of Lemmy. I’ll be switching to you to be my main instance. I am loving the vibe there. You guys are awesome!
🙌🙌✨️✨️✨️ AW! :'D Well thank you so much for the kind words! ♥️ I just approved your application, we’re happy to have you and hope you have lots of fun on HC with us!
Wow almost as many downvotes as I got when I launched !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com
Nice to see people moving to an instance that values free speech. I don’t think the average woke Lemmy user has figured out that federation means true free expression for all in a manner that cannot be censored.
The more posts I see from you, the more I respect you! I know you went through some rough hits and pushback.
Unfortunately I am seeing your home instance, lemm.ee being part of this push against opposing opinions lately.
I am liking the vibe of hilarious chaos a lot. I’m switching to it as my main instance.
I just say what I think and some people like it some don’t. Some like some of the things I say and hate other things I say.
I haven’t had any issue with .ee yet. As u may know someone made a thread to call me a bigot cos I didn’t silence someone from saying something in a community I modded. The .ee admins where tagged like 6 times in that thread with people calling to memory hole me the admins then said “we will be taking action against this user” which translates to doing literally nothing. I had to message them asking what that action would be to which they responded give up on ur argument its not worth it.
A little neutrality seems to be going a long way with hc.
Tbh I give zero fuck about the hate its very entertaining.
Don’t let the negative Nillies of lemmy get you down. I was a little concerned after I saw your promotion post for the news bot community. I didn’t see any more posts from the bot, and I was worried you might have felt discouraged by the negative feed back you got.
But I’m happy to see that the bot is still posting and going strong!
I do have one small ask, (Dmd you, not sure if you got it) but could you upload a Community icon for the news bot community? You don’t have to upload a banner, just community icon image.
I Generated the two below with ai you can choose from, or you can use your own. Either ways fine with us 😊
So can’t wait to see which one is chosen.
He chose the first one, it think that one is my favorite out of the two lol
Thanks for the support. Yeah I was updating the bot and had to migrate the database which took a while (double checking each command cos I don’t wanna lose data).
Also those icons are sick thank you so much I’ll definitely be using one of em.
No worries! I just saw three icon uploaded, it looks great! Ty!
