• perturbedstarstuff
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    I’d love for twitter or facebook to be irrelevant enough for politicians to eschew having a presence there.

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      Me too but why would they leave when all these commentators and influencers stick around? 90% of the posts here, from politicians to influencers, are tweets so any anti-establishment messaging is thick with irony.

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        1 day ago

        so any anti-establishment messaging is thick with irony.

        – especially so coming from lemmy.world :p

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          Yep, you’re so right. Lemmy.world is definitely just as bad as Musk-owned Twitter.

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            It’s worse and it mirrors the democrats/republicans dynamic. almost no one is under the illusion that either the republicans or twitter will let anti-establishment narratives go mainstream. but far too many people believe the democrats and lemmy.world will despite both having a history of doing the same things as the republicans and twitter do. that’s what makes it so much worse: it captures progressives and cements the ratchet effect, which does far more damage than plain suppression.

            so ratchet lol

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              24 hours ago

              Bit of a stretch, eh? Remind me what’s so awful about lemmy.world…defederating from hexbear?

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                15 hours ago

                so awful about lemmy.world

                we already covered that:

                so any anti-establishment messaging is thick with irony.

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                The fake narrative of two different opposite ideologies (democrates vs conservatives)

                In Reality, both are pure shit that only smells differently.

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                Echo chambers. I prefer forming my own opinions, rather than have an admin decide what I should see in my feed. Especially with lemmy as it is now, individuals can now choose to block an instance. I like to see the different narratives from all over, so I don’t block anything. I guess it can make scrolling/commenting a bit less mentally relaxed, but I’m pretty ok with that

                And hexbear users are actually pretty funny/wholesome, in their own way… just some different takes. People from .ml tend to vary widely, but I usually don’t have a problem. Lemmygrad… ehhh, they’ve got some real “hot takes” that I don’t engage with, I just observe

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                  21 hours ago

                  Is there a way to see all instances or most of Lemmy, hexbear or any instance, instead of the neoliberal cancer on /all.

                  Please help me

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                    15 hours ago

                    nearly all instances federate w lemmy.ml – including hexbear – since it’s the lemmy creator’s base instance that they use for development and troubleshooting issues w the admins/developers of other instances as well as other fediverse platforms.

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                  23 hours ago

                  I bounced from an instance that was federated with hexbear because of the edgelords signing every post with “death to America”

                  Can’t take any of them seriously even if I don’t disagree with half their takes

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            No it’s worse. On .world you get banned from communities for opposing mass murdering rapist Graham Platner. At least Elon doesn’t.