• nerdschleife@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Lemmygrad is hilarious, but I’m rather confused by hexbear. I genuinely cannot fathom if they’re serious or trolling

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            I honestly think the best thing to do with them is just to leave them alone. They feed off attention, if nobody is there to listen or condemn them it’ll lose its novelty.

            Sure, some tankies will go on for ever, but isolating them is the best way of stopping recruitment and limiting the appeal of posting provocativist bullshit.

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              1 year ago

              You have a point.

              But I think it’s important to point out their bigotry and hatred. Since, yeah, I don’t think anyone can deny that capitalism and today’s market is incredibly unfair and wholly corrupt (though so are the few current communist states). It’s usually how these extremists operate, acknowledge a problem in society that everyone else recognises, but suppose radical ideas and solutions, unfortunately the solutions often end in bloodshed and violence.

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    1 year ago

    I used to peek at Voat every once in a while. I bet some people here have heard of it? If was one of the websites that sprung up when reddit had one of its “exoduses”. Voat became crazy right wing. I mean, openly nazi, out loud racist, vile people. The loud minority. Well, I liked to poke at them every once in a while and it wasn’t long before I was labeled a “Jew shill”. IDK how that even happened. This reminded me of it.

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      1 year ago

      I was a very prominent member of voat during its early days. My account was disabled and shut down multiple times, though the Admins often reinstated my account. Likewise, I was on said.it and ruqqus, same deal, too many extremists which then shut down the site.

      It happens because mainstream social media sites shoo away extremists, which is fine, but inevitably big social media sites collapse little-by-little, and so the only alternatives are extremist places. Then it’s a whole loop, no one wants to engage because of the lack of diversity, and eventually, the whole site shuts down, and everyone goes back to mainstream social media. I mean look at my account and this community for instance–the exact same thing is happening again, a handful of extreme no-lives are trying to shut down opposing views.

      Thankfully, though, Lemmy is federated.

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    1 year ago

    “misinformation” for showing screenshots of exactly what they said, lol

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    1 year ago

    Briandead Cavemen(also known as liberals)

    Bro these guys can’t be for real, they talk like they’re a satire in South Park or something 💀