This is first post I ever sent in Lemmy after tired with not friendly and racist comments in Reddit

  • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
    16·
    16 days ago

    There’s unfriendly people here as well. Though they’re in the minority. Such is the nature of things. Anyway, welcome! We hope you enjoy your stay.

  • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
    4·
    16 days ago

    Welcome! I’m not sure how much you know about the different instances, or “home servers” on lemmy, but if you are surprised by the amount of marxist-leninist things, it’s because you are on lemmy.ml. Maybe that was intentional, idk. Either way, you decide what content you see, which is quite neat imho.

  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    15 days ago

    If you find that you aren’t seeing many people interact with you outside of other lemmy.ml users, it’s because many fediverse users have that instance (and hexbear) blocked. They aren’t particularly racist or anything, just really obnoxiously obsessed with worshipping china and Russia. Just FYI.

    • Tiral@lemmy.world
      22·
      15 days ago

      How DARE you talk about the fatherland so disrespectfully! He was the best leader in history. Once you get past the mass murder…starvation…and uhhhh freezing to death…stuff. Shit he was kinda bad huh?

  • Tiral@lemmy.world
    11·
    15 days ago

    Nice to meet ya! I think Lemmy is better, but you need to tune it for what your interested in more. The conversations are a lot better, you can usually talk to people with opposing views like an adult and not a toddler.

    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      Or, to put it another way, right-wing ideology is based almost completely on the axiom that normal people are lesser, degenerate, evil, and not deserving of basic human rights. Consequently, they see any disagreement (by anybody, including reality) with their shibboleths as an attack. Predictably, it doesn’t go well when a right-wing folks leave their echo chambers for a pluralistic space like Lemmy, and seem to expect respect from the very people they shit on. They tend to slink back to their safe spaces, moaning about The Left, and how they’re the real victims.

        • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          Right on cue, a sea lion trying to “both sides.” Look, my opinion is based on years and years of interaction with people holding right-wing views online, and observations of their political messaging. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of the people that I have seen them indicate that they consider degenerate, evil, and not deserving of human rights:

          • Trans people
          • Gay people
          • Women
          • Liberals
          • People of color
          • Muslims
          • Other non-Christians
          • Disabled people
          • Foreigners
          • Journalists
          • Democrats
          • Educated people
          • People who live in cities
          • Politicians
          • Librarians
          • Teachers
          • Judges
          • Poll workers

          Now, an a decent application of the scientific method is to formulate a hypothesis based on observation, and then seek evidence that would invalidate the hypothesis. I have yet to see evidence contrary to that hypothesis that right-wing ideology is axiomatically based on in-group and out-group dynamics. What would change my mind, then, is evidence. Evidence of empathy, demonstrations of actually asking questions of people and sincerely hearing different viewpoints. Evidence of being able to see the difference between the leftists, the trans communities, the Marxists, the femcels, the anarchists, the furries, the hornyposters, the solar punks, et cetera, not just as a monolithic Them. Heck, even something as basic as taking some personal responsibility for the rhetoric, and understanding that when you attack people, they’re going to be mad, and that doesn’t make you the victim.

          But, instead, the right-wing stars and influencers are out there calling empathy a weakness, and the greatest mistake of Western civilization. And I’ve tried to ask questions of people with right-wing views for years, seeking to understand their viewpoint. And every single time my questions get too pointed, or hit on an internal contradiction, they disengage either by going silent, or sometimes hurling abuse.

          Every. Single. Time. But I keep trying, so I’ll ask: What qualities does everybody on Lemmy exhibit that coheres us into a non-pluralistic, monolithic group?