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Yeah there's a fuck ton of nazis on lemmy. I once got heavily downvoted for explaining why I censor the world r--- which is about as mask off as you can get. Because "because it causes genuine physical pain" is an extremely reasonable stance to take. Hell just yesterday I reported a comment that literally said "America was rightfully conquered" which is blatant genocide denial and that comment is still up.
The most fucked up thing about that is it's STILL better than reddit, because on reddit they just outright ban you for having left-of-center prospectives. For all of lemmy's faults, at least the mods aren't out there to push an agenda though passive protection of fascists and active suppression of antifascists. I have yet to see anyone get banned or censored for saying that fascism is bad, though a few instances do occasionally remove a comment under respect rules for using nazi as a pejorative, that's nowhere near the level of shit you get from reddit for doing the same. Only really downside from reddit is that Lemmy lacks rules or tools to defend against vote manipulation which becomes very clear on certain posts. You can block people and even report their posts, but you can't really remove their votes.
I'm just going off good faith that the team are going to figure out ways to deal with the huge influx of pedo-nazis coming from reddit.
Well this is depressing. I guess I was naive to think there could be one part of the internet that didn't have many pieces of shit.
Yeah my standards are rock bottom at this point. The way I see it, let people say whatever shit they believe so I can block them. There's millions of people out there, while it may be hard the onus is on me to sift through the filth and find the people worth spending my time with.
I think that's the right take. I have been letting a little piece of me die every time I block a scumbag but I really don't need to do that I suppose.