Skavau

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Well I don't know of any social media platform that's somehow free of that.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Truth be told, I don't want this place, or the Threadiverse, to be considered a lefty safe-space any more than I'd want it to be considered a right wing safe-space. Honestly, I just wish people would leave their political ideology at the door and just interact as people.

Sure, I'm just noting its wider reputation.

It's not considered extreme really (*excluding some instances). I know you're referring to calls for violence to certain political figures but it's as nothing as to what you'll see on Twitter or 4chan.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (5 children)

As it stands, I'm embarrassed to tell people what I do in my spare time (run an instance and interact on Lemmy). You get a "normie" coming in off the streets, and what are they going to think jumping into this place? Are they going to want to stick around?

I don't think telling anyone you moderate a community on Lemmy and interact on Lemmy is somehow more embarassing than telling them you moderate a community on Reddit (for comparisons sake). People who would mock you in some way for that would do so whether or not its Reddit or Lemmy, and likely would just view all of it as inherently nerdy anyway.

Lemmy, from my observation has more of a reputation to outsiders as being a lefty-safe-space (closer to Bluesky) than anything else. It's really not that close to 4chan at all given the sheer gore and overt racism and hatred on there. I know what you're getting at here, but the dredges of 4chan and Twitter have outright open nazi apologetics in front of everyone. Also, given how unpleasant Reddit can get at times (at least just as bad as here) - I don't think the type of conduct you're referring to is inherently a problem for budding social media sites. Not excusing it, but just that it doesn't seem to be an existential factor.

What "normies" want, if anything, would be non-political communities taking more of a focus. Which I am certainly trying to do.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

In terms of Lemmy Dev admins being the mortal enemies, piefed is up and kicking (I'm sure you know this)

EDIT: I see you do based on another reply by you.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

!television@piefed.social should make it to 1000 subscribers by tuesday, or wednesday. Also, it's now the most active piefed community and brushing up on the frontpage of active communities per day/week as seen on lemmy.world.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yeah, it's not where it should be. But I'm quite confident that such is the end-goal.

Instances will always come and go in many cases.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Maybe the instance model isn't the right one for long term federated communities.

The primary problem here is community mobility. If any community could be, with a few key presses, decoupled from an instance and essentially plopped onto another maintaining all of the posts, comments and subscribers - it wouldn't matter as much at all. Piefed has community migration, and I assume that is ultimately the end-goal. It just needs all the major instances to read and recognise such moves.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think your grievance is beyond Lemmy and more just a grievance with people in our current culture currently, at at the minimum those inclined towards social media sites. Lemmy isn't magic software that makes people behave in a particular way.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Locking thread. Not interested in babysitting it anymore. It's nearly a day old.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He had changed his position after I wrote that comment I believe.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm really not interested in going down the rabbit-hole here on this with this user - but I have no reason to believe they're lying. I suspect I could probably look into this users posting history and confirm consistency here, but speaking generally - opposition to democrats/centrists/liberals (insert any other terms you like) also comes from the some of the left. Hell, if you're on Lemmy you must be well aware of this given some of its more controversial instances are full of them.

You might consider them useful idiots, or you might not. But they are genuine. But the broader point is that there's not much point going at it with a user who you think is just lying to you.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This argument then is going absolutely nowhere. I suggest you just stop posting replies to him if you assume he's lying to you about everything. I'll just note this response by him:

"Responsible for perpetuating a political philosophy that’s influenced a generation of smug know-nothing neoliberal trash that’s done nothing but continue the US down a trajectory of stagnation and will help usher in a century of humiliation and genocide."

A MAGA would not say this.

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