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Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse by jim-jim-jim on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @02:49AM (#28453896)
In practice I think mainstream liberals are the gleefully censorious ones, not leftists. In a sibling comment I called these guys losers, but you can't argue that they're not walking the walk by setting up their own platforms. The people in these alt communities have been kicked off Reddit for rightfully pointing out how astroturfed it is by advertisers, police, and military agencies, so I'm not sure if you'd find much love for big tech among their ranks.

Setting up your own community with specific standards is totally fine imo.

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Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse by Saptarishi on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @03:10AM (#28454046)
>Setting up your community with specific standards is totally fine imo

In some sense I agree, but what happens when these communities begin to overflow with people, and chaos increases? It leads to opinion suppression( no I'm not talking about extreme opinions on any side of the political spectrum , I'm talking about opinions which differ from the status quo ), echo-chamber creation, and worst of all, unnecessary aggressive behaviour and mud slinging.

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Re:Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse by uabstraction on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:15PM (#28460134)
This criticism could just as easily apply to Reddit. The entire thing is an echochamber of American civic religion and they ban any subversive communities. Their director of content policy was plucked straight out of the Atlantic Council for f sake.
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