leftists make a platform for leftists
Nooo you can't have you own space stop purity testing
Shut up, loser.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Libertarians made this platform for all people
Nutomic and Dessalines are definitely communists.
Lemmy is made by a tankie...
"Purity test" usually just means having morals, and people who get called out for not having them get annoyed. Is that what you're talking about or something else? Pls gib examples.
You can open your right-wing cesspool instance any day you want if you don't like the main instances.
I mean if the sane privacy-preserving platforms are only full of “crazy left” people what does that say about the other social platforms?
It’s really tiring when people label even the most moderate of logical opinions as “crazy left” — maybe there’s something wrong with your view of the world.
Who wants their own little spot to be popular, though? That immediately ruins it.
what are you talking about. anyone can make an account anywhere. the fediverse is not leftist communities although there may be many. its instances and communities within them that have lesser or greater amounts of specifics in how they operate.
This applies in real life too - not just social media platforms. The extremists of your own side are often far more damaging to your cause than the ones on the other side of the aisle. It's the loud minority keeping everyone else a hostage. I'd even go as far as to claim that much of the success of "the right" can be explained by the failures of "the left."
Interestingly, a similar thing is happening with pride. I know lots of other gay guys who want nothing to do with them simply because just being gay is no longer enough to be accepted into the group. No - you have to sign off on a big laundry list of other completely unrelated stances and if you don't, you're effectively straight and also fascist.
The right has much less of an issue with me being gay than the left has with me not agreeing with (insert any far left grievance). It's just one of the many examples of how it's not that men are being pulled towards the right but rather being pushed there.
What do you mean by unofficial rules of conduct? Would rules in an individual instance or community count? Or more like other users replying negatively?