• fkn@lemmy.world
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    To the people who say they don’t run into jerks here or they don’t understand when people say it’s worse than reddit… what rose colored glasses are you wearing? Huge swaths of lemmy are little better than 4chan.

    “Oh, you just have to curate your communities.”

    Stop. Take your superior than thou attitude and just stop. You are part of the problem.

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      Why is curating your communities a bad recommendation? I understand that there could be more admin tooling and such, but why is looking out for your interests a “Holier than thou” attitude?

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        1. it’s a form of victim blaming. Example:

        “I went to India and I was sexually assaulted on a bus.” “THATS YOUR FAULT FOR NOT GOING TO THE ‘GOOD’ PARTS.”

        No. Fuck you. India has a rampant sexual assault problem.

        Lemmy has rampant problems. To ignore them and say it’s the visitors fault is such a fucking asshole position to take. If the first time you came to lemmy was when csam was being spammed and you were subjected to it… it 100% isn’t your fault. If you make a comment on something that interests you from All and you don’t see which community it is in and you get spammed with slurs and attacks for having a different opinion… it’s not your fault.

        1. it’s toxic as fuck and super passive aggressive.

        “You don’t know how to curate your experience. You aren’t very good at it. You must have issues.”

        That’s what people are saying. They hide behind the bullshit example you gave “what’s wrong with selecting your interests.” No. Fuck you.

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          I was asking a genuine question. I wasn’t saying you were wrong. I even said there should be more admin tooling to help moderate this sort of thing. I just was wondering why suggesting that you can curate is a bad thing. Because giving power to the people who find things they dislike, sounds good to me. Sure you shouldn’t poise it as it was in the original comment in the thread, but still, curating is something you can use to make your time here more enjoyable.

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      Can you point me to the 4chan like part of lemmy? I just go to the main page and click on ‘all’ so maybe I’m missing something but what I see are just some linux memes, post about video games and ‘asklemmy’ posts. Never noticed 4chan like content.

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        Hexbear and lemmygrad. Hexbear is one of the largest lemmy instances and it’s a pit.

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          So two specific instances? I wouldn’t say it’s “huge swaths”. I never visit those instances so never saw anything posted there.

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            Two of the top ten largest instances… something like a good 10-20% of Lemmy users are full on fascists with a hard on for making other people’s lives miserable. You being ignorant of it doesn’t make it untrue.

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              Cool, my question is how do you keep finding this fascists content? I don’t see it when I click on ‘all’ (and obviously I’m not subscribed there). Is it because you’re on a different instance? Is my instance not federated with those fascists? Or do you simply keep going there to see what the fascists are up to?

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                You want me to figure your life out for you or is this a passive aggressive thing?

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                  No, I don’t want you to tell me how to find fascist content. I’m asking how do you find it. Is it mixed with all the other content when you’re browsing lemmy or do you search for it?

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                    Neither. I picked an instance that is defederated from it. It wasn’t at first and it was mixed into everything.