Honestly, I kind of hope they do.
Every time they experience the slightest indication that their views aren't normal or reasonable, they lose a little bit of confidence and a little bit of power.
Think about the "weird" moment last summer. Walz had Republicans sputtering and whining about how they totally aren't weird at all. The best Trump could come up with was "no u!" I think, if Harris had maintained that energy, she'd have been inaugurated this week. And speaking of this week, Trump is all offended and in a tizzy because an Episcopal priest read him the words of Jesus on Tuesday.
The slightest speedbump or disfavor spins them out.
Now. What community on the internet is more disfavorable toward conservatives than Lemmy? It's nothing but speedbumps for them over here. They'd last approximately an hour and a half, and they'd see a more united resistance than they've ever imagined from corporate-owned media. Some of them might even realize that the mainstream socials are actually preferential toward them, and maybe reevaluate some opinions. For a moment, they'd see how weird they are.
Filter bubbles aren't inherently bad. But when they're holding together an odious group in a terrible shared delusion, they need to be popped. Lemmy might pop their bubble, at least a little bit.
Let them come. I pity their bar tabs.
Conservatives lie in their very word choices.
"Somebody pointed out I was wrong about something" = propaganda
"Conservatives lost" = it wasn't fair
Stuff like that. Take the opportunity to talk about things in ways that leave the reader understanding more clearly when you see lying word choices like the ones in this screencap.
Every once in a great while the people of Reddit do the right thing and I'm proud of every one of them that took a stand. Even the BBC is calling it an awkward gesture and they aren't owned by right wing billionaires in the US. Not ONE media news org here has called the obvious. Sanewashing. Wish I'd never heard the term.
Who else is fully expecting Reddit admins to come out in a few days banning twitter bans, and banning anyone that tries to enforce them?
They will not join mainstream instances obviously, and we can defederate them.
Conservatism is for people who can't think for them selves. They Can't comprehend there are different needs for many different peoples. They need to be told how to live, love, and even act. Education can solve the issue but those kinds of people don't want education they want everything to be under their control their ideology.
??? their guy put a literal neo-nazi in a position of power and they're calling acknowledging this "propaganda"
Goodbye conservative, you will not be missed
Lemmy is even worse. Can't have any other opinion then what aligns with the leftist bluesky people or you're down voted into oblivion. There is no room for nuance or a civil discussion. I don't care I'm gonna be down voted and the orange man has some good ideas. I'm not from the US. Have a good day.
I've been thinking how to avoid running into other seedy characters like those spouting now other foreign propaganda like of China and Russia. I can't imagine I will ever get away from them, but how to minimise it. In the old days I used IRC where communities were very small, or forums where we were all into some niche and we stayed away from that. But now you cannot escape this shit. One possibility I thought is just to avoid big servers like world and keep to more local instances.
Picture of text. Much mad.
Why you think we are here! I should have made the move much earlier.
Redshit as usual.
Im bombed by leftist propaganda
They are correct, but not how they think. A big part of conservatism, even among the less fanatical, is to bury your head in the sand. I can see how peeking out for some air will seem like a flood of propaganda. Like that "final experiment" that just went down to dunk on flat earth, but for even the most mundane thing about how society works.
I'd imagine they don't, because we're likely lumped in with Bluesky. And if some do make it here, they normally get reported on main instances, and their instances would unlikely remain federated for long.
I guess they're getting mad about arguing with themselves and are looking for the traditional captive audience they thought they had.
A hilarious part of this thread was that they convinced themselves that X couldn't possibly be that unpopular and it had to be a bunch of bots posting and upvoting these threads to ban X.
In support of this they said "This post about banning X is the [n]th most popular post ever on /r/LiverpoolFC, even higher than when they won the champions league! It can't be real". They didn't even consider that the post about banning X made it to the top of /r/all where a lot of people who couldn't care less about football/futbol/soccer upvoted it. They couldn't care less about that team, but they also supported banning X, so they upvoted.
They've tried a few times on their own instances (ExplodingHeads). They got purged and defederated so fast that they gave up as I've not seen more than 1 or 2 spammers shown up since.
They can stick to !conservative@lemm.ee, I don't mind them when in their own space. Crazies have truthless social anyway.
I'm gonna say that I'm happy for everyone to have their own, public and community run social media. Those without harmful views are welcome to participate in discussions, and those with harmful view may be banned but eventually mature past those harmful views by being outside of elon/Russia misinformation chambers.
I mean I left that cesspool a while ago, but reddit being to liberal has fuckall to do with why I left it.
I know the de facto attitude in the fediverse is to slag off Reddit, but I worry that they have a target on their back now. They are one of the last few big places online for Americans where left leaning and progressive thought predominates. It won't surprise me if Ketamine Nazi/Trump and the MAGA crowd make them a public enemy soon.
Nah, they'll probably flee to one of those alt-right dollar store reddit replacements that popped up a few years ago. Assuming they are still in operation.
Idc if they come here. I won’t see them.
Funny, that's exactly the inverse of how I feel anytime I check in on Reddit, but I was subscribed to a lot of conspiracy subreddits.
They didn't used to be like that 😢
r/thedonald really was a plague.
I think stormfront registration is still open.
