• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Threads like this just remind that the fediverse existed for over a year before reddit shit the bed, and was populated mostly be far right extremists who had been IP banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and pretty much every other social media.

    The idea of the fediverse is great, but the fact is you can never really permanently ban anyone from it.

    So in a lot of ways it’s also the gutter the worst get washed into. And they’re usually the most active

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      1 year ago

      If you really think the fediverse was ever “populated mostly by far-right extremists” you have zero clue what you’re talking about and zero credibility.

      Less than a year ago Lemmy was mostly communist meme threads and a few years before that Mastodon was just a FOSS community hangout.