Is fediverse turning into reddit?
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Yeah. The big advantage of the fediverse is that "if you don't like it, leave" is practical advise instead of a way for the powerful to shut down arguments.
In theory sure, but not in reality. Most communities are already consolidated on here, so shitty mods have control just like they do on reddit. “Just make a new sub if you don’t like the mods” didn’t work in Reddit and it doesn’t work on the fediverse for the exact same reasons.
What we need is for mods to basically have no power over users or what they say. No bans, no deleting comments, no removing posts - just let people ignore/block who they want, and give them robust filtering options. It would be infinitely better for everyone who isn’t a big girls blouse who craves censorship of differing opinions.
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If it makes you feel any better, I don't think those words used in those context are gender specific, that is to say I would totally say "thanks, man" to a woman without batting an eye, and I assume people who use bro would do the same. I know feelings are extremely personal, and if it makes you feel bad it's unlikely to change because some random person online said something, but in my head "thanks, man" is just a construct used to imply comradrie, it has nothing to do with the gender of the word, just like how "see you later, alligator" doesn't exclude human beings.
Those are usually used in a more friendly, casual setting. I would be abit more concerned about using such language at the workplace especially towards other female coworker or the higher up managers, compared to say a colleague you work with and see everyday lest you get written up by HR again for, "inappropriate behaviours".
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"eVeRyOnE eLSe iS a SnOwFlAkE!"
Then watch as they try to police other people's speech while using slurs and dog whistles...
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Prying into who downvoted what is literally built into piefed. This was unfortunately predictable.
From what I’ve seen Piefed seems to be just Lemmy but packed full of every pro-censorship tool you could ever imagine to aid in creating a “safe space” echo chamber for pussies.
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I'm a trans girl and I hate being called bro. Lots of people say it without thinking because it's a habit
Bro hasn't meant "brother" in a very long time.
It is just as gender-neutral as: dude, guys, mate, bitch and dick.
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Totally agree.
That's just like lookng for reasons to get angry.
Are you even a “progressive” if you’re not constantly actively looking for things to be offended/outraged about so you can try and censor someone who has a different opinion?
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Bro hasn't meant "brother" in a very long time.
It is just as gender-neutral as: dude, guys, mate, bitch and dick.
Okay but you can't choose how other people feel about the words you call them
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You can escape the software architecture. You can't escape the people.
Isn't the software architecture supposed to promote certain ways to interact? The medium is the message kind of thing?
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From what I’ve seen Piefed seems to be just Lemmy but packed full of every pro-censorship tool you could ever imagine to aid in creating a “safe space” echo chamber for pussies.
Now that's a take
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Exactly... And then banned them for something they did on a different community. It's crazy to have such little power and still abuse it.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I’ve upset a prominent mod on Lemmy.world so much by simply having a differing opinion that they banned me from their sub instantly and permanently (with no ban reason given) and then must have vine and asked their other mod buddies to ban me from their communities that I’d literally never so much as even visited lol. Within probably 15 mins of the initial ban I was banned from 3 other communities permanently, and that mod wasn’t a mod on them.
I messaged a few of the other mods on the main sub to let them know what he did, but didn’t hear so much as a peep from them.
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No joke, Periodic changing of mods might be a better long term strategy. Or like you said a small election from time to time.
Any position of power should be chosen by the people of that community, not picked by the others already in power
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Okay but you can't choose how other people feel about the words you call them
You can choose not to be offended tho.
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Taking action against someone or even just DMing them because of downvotes is some weak shit.
People like that seem to be who piefed is made for.
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We had a community for the fediverse chick on our home instance. That went pretty bad, pretty fast. People there tried to find out who she is and where the spam is coming from. They ended up receiving disturbing gore in their DMs..
Wait what? That is some insane lore. Was it sent from fediverse chick accounts??
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Unpopular opinion: y'all call everything you don't like "reddit" (while the average Lemmy user is a lot of what people who don't use either dislike about reddit)
Well 95% of all the people on the fediverse came from Reddit, so it’s bizarre when people pretend that it’s any different here. The only difference is in popularity.
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Apart from the silly ass mod abuse; yes!
Lemmy is the concentration of Reddit energy people.
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post the guys name so i can proactively block him
I’m going to tag him in voyager to remind myself to reply to any comment of his that I see and have the word bro in there at least once.
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Okay but you can't choose how other people feel about the words you call them
Yet, you can't ban normal words just because someone, somewhere feels insulted.
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Let's make something clear. Admins are just people. There is no school you have to finish to be an admin. You don't have to pass any logic or IQ tests. Most admins do not reason properly; in fact, they are terrible at it. They act like they have a master's degree in community administration, but they don't.
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sensitive snowflake, what are the chances he ones of the political extremes. if this was reddit, the person making an unsoliciated messaged wouldve been banned, or both because reddit has a very aggressive AI moderation system, plus thier spam/bot filters are easily triggered by any number of things, this would severely reduce the number of users on Lemmy if they had this.
ones of the political extremes
And let’s not pretend we don’t know exactly which extreme he is on. He’s probably crying about Kimmel being “cancelled for free speech” as we speak.
