This is why the lemmy software is awful. If a site has blocked you, it just quietly fails instead of giving an error.

It's pointless, because there are commies with alt accounts who are downvoting everything.

One problem with lemmy is that there still isn't the critical mass of users that you have on Reddit to support communities for niche interests.

Facebook's plan to make an ActivityPub client is going to kill Lemmy/Mastadon/Fediverse. They're going to attract a huge chunk of users to their implementation, then make compatibility-breaking changes.

That doesn't always apply, because there are huge network effects benefiting the sites with the most users. That's what was lost when we went from a model where everyone had their own website, to one where social media websites were the main way everyone interacted.

If lemmy users were equally distributed across all instances, lemmy.world acting like jerks wouldn't be an issue.

The right-wing never really found a good alternate to rally around when they were kicked off big tech. Lemmy/Activitypub aren't the solution either. It would only work if you could get everyone on the right to agree to migrate to the same website at the same time. But the right-wing websites do have to do a certain amount of censorship once they become popular, due to pressure from some combination of web hosts, domain registrars, banks, investors, and law enforcement. Big tech also kept a token amount of moderate-right viewpoints on their websites, so it isn't obvious to a normie that there's censorship.

It's very hard for people on the right to be abusive in the way that commies portray them, because people on the right control almost nothing. They don't control big media, big tech, most large corporations, universities, schools, most of government, etc.

It is the left that is doing the abusive things you mention: censorship of different viewpoints, extreme emphasis on race (BLM, criminal justice "reform", race equity), glorification of violence (Antifa, assaults on right-wing people giving speeches), scapegoating and persecution (example: bike Karen), rejection of democracy (it's anti-democratic when Republicans win elections; it's a threat to democracy when people on the right can freely express their viewpoint).

When Trump was doing real estate deals, he only needed a team of 10 competent people he trusted and things would work. When Trump became President, he had to appoint thousands of people. He didn't have enough people he personally knew that were competent and qualified (and could get confirmed by the Senate), so he had to rely on the advice of others, and he received bad advice.

Lemmy.world, the biggest lemmy instance, blocked exploding heads, because they're a bunch of commies who can't stand to hear different viewpoints.

That is necessary for the current left. In a real honest open debate, they just lose. They make excuses for it like "You're an evil person using words to trick us!"

They accuse the other side of fascism, but they really are the most fascist. Fascism is "the merger of corporate and government power". In the USA in 2023, almost all the institutions are on the same side as the left. The only things the right controls right now are some state governments, the Supreme Court (sort of) and the House of Representatives (sort of).

If they want Lemmy to be a serious project, alienating half the country seems like an idiot move.

There's a trope that says "If a website has a single antisemitic comment, then everything on that website is invalid and must be banned." So if someone wanted to ruin exploting-heads.com, then all they have to do is create accounts and post antisemitic stuff.