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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, I would like to ideally see no political takes. Neutral comments that don't inject politics into topics they don't belong in. Left or right I don't care, I don't want to see either of them.

But I do agree that basically no right wing views are allowed on Lemmy. Not even some left wing views are allowed because they're "not left enough." While I was blocking communities related to politics, one was called something like "conservative" (I dont remember the instance) and it was obviously the victim of targeted vote brigading. Every single post and comment that was not making fun of the OP or calling politically right people "hateful bigots" or Nazis or whatever other buzzword names politically left people use now for politically right people, every single one was sitting at like -200 or more downvotes which was more than the number of people active in the community.

In my opinion, that's a problem, because vote brigading is a Reddit thing and Lemmy was supposed to be better than Reddit. But as it turns out, its the same. Its the same as Reddit, if not worse because of the way its users treat people that don't have exactly the same thinking as they do. I'm sick of the tribalism that Lemmy was described as not having.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, I get wanting things to be kept neutral. Ive just come to accept that certain people will always shoehorn politics into every hobby or conversation.

Ill die on the hill that vote brigading is not as bad on lemmy as it was on reddit. If you got heavily downvoted on reddit it restricted your ability to comment and participate with all kinds of unrelated communties on the site. If you get downvoted on lemmy nothing happens except your ego may take a hit.