I don’t have much of a problem either way as I don’t think I’ll be engaging in political discussion on this website past this post but it seems like any sort of non-left wing opinions or posts are immediately trashed on here. That’s fine. There’s clearly a more liberal audience here and that’s okay. I just don’t want Lemmy to become a echo chamber for any side and it seems to be that way when it comes to politics already.

Mostly making this post just to drum up discussion as I’m new here.

Edit: Thanks for the rational replies. I was expecting to get lit up for even mentioning this topic lol.

  •  Dee   ( @Dee_Imaginarium@beehaw.org ) English
    5•1 year ago

    Oh that’s good to know. I saw lemmy.world take some great steps forward like defederating from that one instance (that I won’t list here so it doesn’t drive more traffic to it) so it’s great to hear they’re taking it seriously.

    but wants more permissive signups under the belief that streamlined community joins will grow the community more organically than checking beforehand that users will follow the rules of the road.

    I think that philosophy has some merit, but I’m not sure I want to be a part of that front line instance so to speak haha

    But I think Ruud is right, in that there has to be some sort of general instance like that so people can hop in, try things out and dive deeper into other instances if it catches their fancy. I’m honestly just really looking forward to when the mod tools get more robust so that defederation only has to be used as a last resort. It’s not an ideal solution, but the fact that we have that solution is step up from centralized platforms (imo at least).