Lemmy largely has 3 camps, the Anarchists, the Marxists, and the Liberals, and each instance leans overwhelmingly in one or 2 of those directions. Looking at the number of active users on each instance, at this point it’s fair to say that the liberal camp is probably the largest, as much as I wish that wasn’t true.

That does make for ample radicalization territory, however.

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Sometimes I misspell because I use a FOSS keyboard and it doesn’t have any tracking or autocorrect, but sometimes I mistype a word regardless and don’t go back and read it.

Not true sequels, but Alabaster Dawn from the Crosscode Devs, and Psycho Patrol R from the Cruelty Squad Dev! Both are some of my favorite games, so I can’t wait to see the “successor” games come out!

I personally haven’t seen any of that while on my Hexbear account, the mods and admins usually do a great job of blocking all of that out.

That’s not an accurate way to view Hexbear. Hexbear is very explicitly for Marxists and Anarchists, but the vast majority of users live in areas where those are fringe viewpoints. Hexbear allows people to talk to other like-minded leftists without having to constsntly deal with people hostile to Anarchism and/or Marxism, which is the default in their lives.

A more accurate “bubble” would be instances that uphold ideologies aligned with the status quo in my opinion, as it minimizes exposure to other viewpoints.

That’s a bit of an interesting dillema. Anyone that supports something consistently is doing propaganda, so it’s generally better if people reveal their biases. As for brigading, it’s difficult to tell if there’s just a large group of an ideologically different instance coming across a post in their all feed or of its a concerted effort.

Kind of a joint effort from what I’ve seen.

No problem!

Ah, thanks for the correction.

Figured it’d die, Lemmy has been in dev for years, starting from scratch to rewrite a new form in Java (thanks Edie!) seems like far too much effort for far too little return.

I’ve just been around on Lemmy for around a year, and as a Marxist-Leninist I’ve had different experiences with different groups, including chatting with the mods and admins of dbzer0 (who… tolerate me, I suppose, despite our differences). This is coming from personal experience, as well as reading theory with respect to why people hold the views they do, such as False Witnesses and Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing.” Don’t just take my word for it, I try to be open about my biases and encourage others to do so as well.

As for checking my modlog, on the web version you can click the 3 dots under my comment and click “Cowbee Moderation History,” which will show you what comments and posts of mine have been removed and where I have been banned from, though in totality my mod log is not that long compared to many other users. Keep in mind it displays all content as plain text in the mod log, so quotations and whatnot don’t appear as formatted comments would and images are displayed as links.

The point of politics isn’t to debate, debate is largely useless as people largely license themselves to believe what they want to believe based on their own class interests, changing minds comes from internal investigation. Believe me, I know (and am trying to be better about that). Hexbear is an openly Left-Unity community for Marxists and Anarchists to hang out in, it isn’t a revolutionary organization.

Further, Hexbear isn’t “afraid” of meat, they take a firm pro-vegan stance for ethical and environmental reasons, this is not contradictory to being pro-revolution. Moreover, there isn’t a “fear” of offensive words, but a desire to root out bigotry and chauvanism. This framing of their stances as being based on “fear” and not due to being principled is wrong.

The root word is baked in misogyny, that doesn’t change that dynamic.

There’s a difference between understanding gender and romance, and understanding sex. Children are already exposed to romance and gender by virtue of existing in society, teaching them about non-conforming gender and queer attraction is perfectly fine and helps combat bigotry as children develop. Moreover, referring to heterosexuality as “regular” is further bigoted language, implying irregularity in queer sexualities, ie “unnaturalness.”

I think you would benefit greatly from speaking with trans individuals and queer people in general, the verbage of your opinions is harmful and your opinions are baked with latent dismissal of queer issued and uphold heteronormativity as something positive.

It’s misogynistic, pretty clear cut bigotry.

The mod log displays your comments and posts as they were when they were deleted. You can freely read what was removed and why.

As for your comments now, they are again transphobic. “Overrepresentation” is a nonsense issue, your issue is that trans individuals are centered in media despite making up a minority of the population does not actually matter. Stories are not meant to center people perfectly proportional to demographics, such a mechanism ends up reinforcing existing power dynamics and plays into transphobia.

Additionally, children learning that trans people exist is not going to “turn them trans” or harm them, just like children learning gay people exist will not harm them. This is more transphobic nonsense. Your opinions are removed because they are harmful and perpetuate transphobic narratives that directly harm trans individuals.

Yes, I am going off of your posts and comments, not the mod reasons.

No, you were banned for being bigoted because, checking the mod log, you are hostile to trans and disabled people and considered transwomen to be dangerous to ciswomen. Your mod log is public.

Lemmy.world also has a reputation for censorship, what actually happens is different instances fall into different ideological camps and tend to defederate and remove/ban that which does not affirm the dominant ideology of the instance. Lemmy.ml gets a bad reputation from Lemmy.world and adjacent communities because Lemmy.ml is far more broadly federated and thus removes more rulebreaking content, generally.

Recognizing bias is a necessary part of the fediverse experience, everyone is biased in some direction and defederation provides a more subtle means by which to “censor.” One could say Lemmy.world has banned all of Hexbear through defederation, which is more heavyhanded than Lemmy.ml ever has been. All this means is that Lemmy.world is more subtle with its own censorship and Lemmy.ml more overt.