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What's with users of fediverse using 'Go back to reddit' as a retort to other users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by calmblue75@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.

You can say 'Don't bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,' or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?

Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.

Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I didn't mean to say that conservative views are just different views. I phrased my initial post badly, sorry. I mean to say that this retort is used also for differing views. A few days back, I was asked to go back to reddit because I questioned the US-limited view of politics. I don't think my view was conservative. I was just thinking in what situations this retort is used.

[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 17 points 1 day ago

you will find juvenile trolls on whatever platform you use, especially as more and more people join. fediverse is no exception. "go back to reddit" is the new "touch grass." whatever rational explanation there may be for people lashing out probably isn't worth the effort to understand. best advice is to ignore and/or block people who are making you read this much into their ranting.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip -4 points 17 hours ago

They are simply different views. Don’t get swayed by the nuts around here. Ya just ignore their extremism and accept that genuine discourse on politics isn’t done here.

It’s great for everything else tho.