• TurboDiesel@lemmy.world
    26610·
    9 months ago

    Lemmy isn’t “too extreme,” a very small subset of Lemmings are just fucking insufferable.

      • Dudewitbow@lemmy.ml
        771·
        9 months ago

        News: People on the internet find out some people on the internet grinds their gears

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        3321·
        9 months ago

        I mean, tankies are kinda worse.

        Edit: seems this post is controversial! Let me clarify.

        Tankies are definitely worse. 🥂

              • Klear@sh.itjust.works
                143·
                9 months ago

                Honestly I find it kinda mindblowing how similar lemmygrad and hexbear are to /r/t_d.

                • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
                  51·
                  9 months ago

                  HB federated with SJW, a bunch of them raided two posts on SJW’s main and management communities, they started insulting the local users, calling them fascists and Nazis, they defederated by pretending they got insulted and called homophobic slurs and their admin called SJW “sh.itsfulla.chuds” and “sh.itholefor.nazis” without noticing the irony…

                • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  They’re trying their darndest to drag the left into the mud. They’re pushing the same rhetoric as trumpers trying to brainwash young people Jordan Peterson style. The Russian government has a vested interest in destabilizing the US and trying to push people to violence and ‘revolt’ because that would take down the only threat to them. At least most of us aren’t so stupid to believe these people are in any way representing the left, the LGBT or minorities. I was looking for an LGBT friendly community and was so saddened to find out what it really was… trying to radicalize vulnerable groups. Shame on them. Fucking shame.

                • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
                  52·
                  9 months ago

                  From a governmental point of view, both extremes are responsible for multiple genocides so I’m not even sure which is which in your comment 🤔

                  And I’m talking about Lemmy’s tankies vs Reddit’s alt-right, since that’s what the conversation was about in the first place.

    • 30p87@feddit.de
      81·
      9 months ago

      Some Lemmings are extremely right. That is the norm on any other social media too. Luckily they were often contained on a specific instance. What I noticed tho is that at least in my german bubble the view is very, very left. That’s noticeable especially as the consensus of eg. !ich_iel@feddit.de seems to be extremely pro towards protestors of the last generation, which are often criticised in my real life bubble for their actions as they’re seen as too extreme. Could be that my RL bubble is just much more right than I perceive it to be, even after blending out some individuals.
      The ich_iel community existed as sub on fuggid too, it was never as left tho. I guess there are much less older and therefore theoretically less tech savvy as well as statistically conservative folks people on Lemmy in general. Conservatives would probably care about new, better platforms anyway.

      • venji10@feddit.de
        32·
        9 months ago

        I feel the same about feddit.de in general. Everytime I stumble across a political topic I am shocked by the consensus on very left opinions there.

        I also noticed that there are lots of links to leftist news sites like TAZ.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      81·
      9 months ago

      There is a lot of political and other “adult” discourse. Not extreme, but more exhausting for a person wanting memes, gifs, and lols. I imagine the median age here is higher than that of Reddit. Can’t confirm, but it certainly conducts itself with less…“juvenility”…or some word.

      • ed_cock@feddit.de
        3·
        4 months ago

        I find the political discourse, at least on some topics, very juvenile on Lemmy. You know, screeching about how billionaires aren’t people but parasites and need to die, hundreds of upvotes. That’s some edgy, frustrated teenager bullshit. Or at least it should be, guess some people never got the memo about inalienable rights, equal treatment, vigilantism and how two wrongs don’t make a right.

        Seriously, this thirst for blood is disturbing and if it isn’t just venting then, well, look how the French Revolution turned on people. That wasn’t very poggers.

        There’s also this idea that everybody who isn’t 100% on board needs to be defooed and marked, preferably as a fascist. Which plays into the hands of the actual fascists because the non-fascists hate each other too much to collectively tell them to fuck off, despite their differences.

        There, that’s my venting done for today.