Fediverse

Lemmy is open source, meaning that anyone can use it for whatever purpose they like. Realistically there is nothing we can do against that. The sooner we accept this reality, the better.

In my opinion, the main goal of Lemmy as a project is to challenge proprietary social media like Reddit. That wont be achievable if we try to exclude anyone from using Lemmy. Of course that doesnt mean that we have to agree with their opinions, and block tools exist exactly for this reason.

Also, I think if these extremists leave Reddit, that could eventually lead to their deradicalization. Reddit has no real incentive to deradicalize them, because more users and more activity means more ad money for them. But fediverse instances are usually run by volunteers in their free time, who have less incentive to permit such toxicity.

It was only a matter of time before alt-right instances championing "free speech" started to pop out - this is the first one I hear about, I was expecting them to adopt Lemmy earlier

I see just an empty page saying the domain is registered.

Actually there is also Votal.net run by Ruqqus refugees. And when I say "Ruqqus refugees", it tells a lot about their view of free speech. The site appears to be currently under maintenance. According to statistics by The Federation, Votal.net was briefly the second-biggest Lemmy instance.

The unfortunate reality of uncorporate controlled social media is that we get uncorporate controlled social media of undesirable types.

Free speech platforms are kinda stupid. I just told two people not to use racial slurs, be a decent human being, that sort of thing, and I got called out for virtue signaling. Idgaf about virtue signaling, be a decent goddamn human being! Also, communities.win is full of snowflakes. I got banned from a community for calling out antisemitism and homophobia. So stupid.

It is precisely because of censorship these people became further and further radicalized, without the opportunity for regular people to arrive at their new locations and tone it down a bit. Lemmy is making the right call to do nothing about this.

Maybe it's the alcohol or maybe I'm just in a good mood, but what if we were kind to these people? I'm not saying make friends with them, but y'know, show them kindness, a little compassion. Would that be bad to do?

am i the only person who wants these people to have a space to talk to each other?

they remind me of teenagers, when i read their forums, stupid immature ideas. they are on the road to nowhere.

they can learn to think properly and become adults, and the best way is by talking to adults. the worst thing for them (and for society) is keeping then isolated.

the ideal is keeping them in a big community where new ideas can leak into their filter bubbles. but failing that, they just need any community, to practice feeling empathy and social skills, stop then becoming radicalised by hatred.

HOLY SHIT...I HAD A BRILLIANT IDEA! Since most free speech networks run on blockchain, and most of them aren't moderated, if a user uses a racial slur, they LOSE bitcoin or crypto when they get downvoted. What do you think?