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People on lemmy are the same fuckwad assholes you meet on reddit. It's not like being a better person is enforced on the lemmyverse outside of a couple of instances like hexbear and lemmygrad. idk maybe it's me but it's like why bother, why not just use reddit if you're going to be a shitty person or overall debate pervert? Weird shit.

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[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure the point of Lemmy was to magically make people more tolerable. Yeah, Lemmy is filled with the same libs, but it also

  • (For now) has significantly fewer bots
  • Isn't directly controlled by the USA Govt, thus leading to
  • Less censorship and
  • Less surveillance
  • Doesn't have ads
  • Allows people to freely fork and migrate if they hate their instance
  • You get the idea

Does Lemmy cure all people of all their wrong opinions? No. But we have had a decent number of converts on Hexbear because the reduced lib control meant that people were exposed to communist viewpoints and actually listened. That couldn't happen on Reddit, and as we know, even if it did, Reddit would just shut down any comms therein.

So the "point" as I see it, if there is such a thing, is to actually allow free communication of ideas in a way that is significantly less US-controlled and thus allows the proliferation of leftist ideas and discussion. Or at the very least improve peoples' standard of living by way of more privacy, more control, less bot propaganda, and fewer ads. Not to be a magical lib instant de-brainwashing device.

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That couldn't happen on Reddit, and as we know, even if it did, Reddit would just shut down any comms therein.

Weirdly enough happened to me, but only because I seeked out communists and their actual opinions by having a "know your enemy" mindest. Funny how that went.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

curiosity killed the cap in your heart