I appreciate the take. It's not a great feeling to have "the side" you feel like you are on rail at you for trying to set the record straight.
It feels weird to say this, but I wonder if the "Tankies" from certain instances color Lemmy as a whole. If so, that makes me worried for the future of Lemmy. I really don't want this to be the Far Left version of The_Donald or Truth Social.
Yeah, I don't think any political viewpoint is free from people who just like their prejudices and attack anything that doesn't match their prejudices. I wish it was different on the left, but sadly not.
FWIW, I've had a lengthy argument and said some plenty unpopular things in a tankie forum on Lemmy and didn't get banned, so we're still quite a ways away from the conservative ethos. I feel like as long as there's freedom of speech about it, the problem is self-correcting in the long run. Maybe.
(I literally had someone on /r/walkaway tell me that I could say whatever I wanted, that they believe in free speech absolutism and exchange of ideas etc etc, and then when I went to reply to them, I couldn't because I was banned. 😃)
I appreciate the take. It's not a great feeling to have "the side" you feel like you are on rail at you for trying to set the record straight.
It feels weird to say this, but I wonder if the "Tankies" from certain instances color Lemmy as a whole. If so, that makes me worried for the future of Lemmy. I really don't want this to be the Far Left version of The_Donald or Truth Social.
Yeah, I don't think any political viewpoint is free from people who just like their prejudices and attack anything that doesn't match their prejudices. I wish it was different on the left, but sadly not.
FWIW, I've had a lengthy argument and said some plenty unpopular things in a tankie forum on Lemmy and didn't get banned, so we're still quite a ways away from the conservative ethos. I feel like as long as there's freedom of speech about it, the problem is self-correcting in the long run. Maybe.
(I literally had someone on /r/walkaway tell me that I could say whatever I wanted, that they believe in free speech absolutism and exchange of ideas etc etc, and then when I went to reply to them, I couldn't because I was banned. 😃)
Yeah, I've noticed lack of reading downvoting seems like even more of a problem on Lemmy than on Reddit. Its really bizarre the votes on this thread are completely contradictory for example.