And then in a couple years lemmy goes the way of reddit and suddenly were flooded with right wing bots and bad actors spamming lemmy with misinformstion and hate and they scream and cry whenever you try to do anything about it.

Leftists deserve our own space on the internet.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

The day it happen we'll just have to defederate them, which other social networks can't.

[–] hisao@ani.social 5 points 4 days ago

Do you realize Reddit is a monolith platform and not defederated? The things happening to Reddit and other centralized platforms is exactly the reason why Fediverse exist in the first place. Those problems are what Fediverse is designed to solve. It's surprising to see people considering Lemmy as some kind of leftwing alternative to Reddit. It's not.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Leftists deserve our own space on the internet.

That's not what the fediverse is for. The fediverse isn't to be your own personal haven. However, you can use the fediverse to make a leftist instance and defederate/ban right wingers as you please.

I haven't been on Reddit since the API fallout, but I rarely ever saw right wingers, nevermind bots.

Some of these platforms (notably xitter) have algorithms to farm rage

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh you saw bots, they were everywhere. You just didnt realize you were interacting with bots. At least once a week I found a bot account trying to steer conversations on reddit.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -5 points 4 days ago

What I do remember was being banned from half the subs because I posted a pro vaccine comment in the nonewnormal sub. And it wasn't conservative subs that were banning me. It was usually leftist, slightly leftist or even completely apolotical subs with leftist moderation. And then they broadened their ban list to include pro life subreddits and anti-pitbull activism subreddits as well.

I did not get an impression that it was a right-wing site.

Twitter always was a cesspit as well, even before Elon. It was filled with leftist dreamSMP and k-pop stans who'd doxx you over misnaming a haircut in Animal Crossing. When elon bought it, it just turned into a right wing cesspit. A cesspit is still a cesspit.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't been on Reddit since the API fallout, but I rarely ever saw right wingers, nevermind bots.

That says more about you than about the site lol

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That I haven't used reddit since 2023?

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That you haven't looked outside of your bubble.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Of leftism?