Hear me out. You’re right to exist in anyway that you find fitting. And that applies to every one American. And you should definitely defend your right to do so. However it’s very depressing and frustrating that the side that is supposed to be all-inclusive does nothing but bash and try to destroy you emotionally because your ideals don’t perfectly line up with theirs. IMO that’s a good reason why conservatives are at the top right now. They don’t refuse a person because they have a slight opposing view (I’m excluding religious conservatives because fuck them). Regardless of Jan 6th. It was assumed that around 80K heads could be counted at the protest but only around 2k made it into the Capitol. And yet the liberal and democrat side claim that our total American freedoms are being removed. Lemmy as a fediverse is mainly used as political propaganda regardless of what side you think is right or what the original purpose of Lemmy was supposed to be. And then anything remotely in the realm of politics (even a meme that uses a political figure that the majority of the fediverse opposes) is belittled, treated as a fight or a threat, and then respond accordingly (even though it’s unwarranted). A lot of the mods out there really do try to simply keep the peace, and I acknowledge all of those people that support civil disagreement (you all are the ones that really make Lemmy). However, as the fediverse grows, more ideas and influence are going to take hold. Many communities would prefer to alienate and belitle an opposing view just because it’s different from their view. If you find yourself like that, you aren’t helping progress. It doesn’t matter what side you’re on in that case. You’re part of the problem
Some fucking line breaks would considerably help your point be easier to read. Right now it comes across as a crazy screed.
You’re complaining to a void that doesn’t want to hear you or care, and this is definitively not the right community to post this in. There are various rant, off my chest, and unpopular opinion communities. This is a stretch for a community meant for meta discussion about your specific instance.
Lemmy was never meant to be free speech specifically, or accepting of all opinions. Just more open than Reddit, and with the ability for people to host their own spaces if their opinions were being suppressed by other instances. There was no goal for every instance to be open to every point of view. Lemmy’s lead dev, Dessalines, is a transphobic “hard tankie” marxist leninist, who runs the Marxist Leninist instance lemmy.ml.
You will find this kind of “suppression”/“bullying”/“negative responses to out-group ideas and thinking” everywhere online. Especially in spaces set up like Lemmy/Reddit/HackerNews etc with voting effecting content visibility. It is inherent to the design. Even on sites without this format, like 4chan, you still see this sort of behavior. Best get used to it.
Also, from personal experience, just block communities and users that are assholes. The Fediverse has a low enough count of daily active users that blocking actually makes a difference in the content and viewpoints you encounter.
Lastly, there are right wing lemmy instances. They tend to be filled with actual nazis and pedophiles, which is why no instances will federate with them.
Spoiler: I agree that calling Jan 6 an attempted coup is a stretch. The most heavily armed group in the US tried to overthrow the government and there was minimal firearm based violence?
That said, none of the chucklefucks that broke into buildings deserve any sort of pardon. They broke the law fair and simple. Feelings of righteousness don’t change that. Only coordinated legal and political effort would, and I don’t think anyone is going to back the idea that those building should be open access to an uncontrolled public.
Agreed