i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • magnetosphere
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    3 years ago

    People who don’t know/acknowledge the difference between “free speech” and “hate speech”

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      3 years ago

      unfortunately lemmy already has those people, but luckily enough they seem to organize in tidy communities that are easy to defederate

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        3 years ago

        True. I should have started my post with “The rampant proliferation of…”

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          AFAIK they weren’t bad folks, they just didn’t want to deal with the surge of new users.

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            They closed up in order to avoid mistakenly accepting bigots into the fold. Nothing wrong with leaving a safe space to its own devices, as long as it isn’t bothering anyone else.

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            Yeah, that was the #1 reason they gave. There weren’t enough mods to keep up with the sudden workload.

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      3 years ago

      Gotta love watching a debate somewhere that devolves into racist morse code.