Decentralization isn’t left wing or right wing, that’s just a moronic analysis. Decentralization has a wide appeal but unless it gets simplified and standardized it will never become adopted by the mainstream. Places like Lemmy which are littered with gatekeepers like you doom this place to forever being a niche. If this place ever hopes of rivaling reddit, it needs to appeal to more than political extremists and tech nerds

There are few things the developers could do. For example, they could make the platform easier to use. Many people don’t even reach this place because they’re not that tech savvy or simple don’t care enough to figure it out. It’s much easier for them to just create an account and get started on Reddit or elsewhere. This leaves extremists with nowhere else to go and tech bros… which are the two groups that dominate this place. The process of getting on board and finding instances/communities needs to be easier. There needs to be something like centralized site/app that is easily accessible and shows all the different instances and communities in one place.

This is why Lemmy will never be anything more than tiny a niche platform. It’s a place for the far left by the far left. There’s nothing here in place for anybody else. I don’t just mean politics wise, I mean everything. There’s nothing for fandoms, shows, movies, sports, or anything really. You have to be privacy/tech nerd or some left wing extremist to really enjoy this place more than Reddit. Since the portion of the population that this platform is trying to appeal to is extremely small, this platform will always be small. There’s little to not attempts by the devs or the community to make this place appeal to everybody else.

imagine being dumb enough to be a Marxist in the 21st century.

That’s how democracy is supposed to work. You’re supposed to stand by your principles and vote for whoever thinks represents you best. Voting for the lesser of evils a divide and conquer tactic by the duopoly

Marxists are worse than fascists. Just as evil, just as retarded, just as violent, just as hateful. A failed murderous ideology has no place in modern times and it will never happen. You will never be a revolutionary and you will never, ever come to poewr… and for good reason too. All you can and ever will do is larp on the internet while swimming in a sea of willful ignorance. I, like most people, am glad that is the case.

He’s been essentially lying and scamming young gullible people for personal gain. He rants and supports a failed murderous ideology that he doesn’t even believe in while also being a hotspot for misinformation. His hypocrisy and lack of ethics make him a vile person.

“everything I don’t like is fascism”

Who actually hates themselves enough to watch Hasan Piker? Not only is he an idiot, but he’s also cringe beyond hope

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I don’t care about politics, I’m talking about actually living there.

The privacy tech is so robust and easily available right now that anyone could spend a few days and replace their everything with privacy focused alternative while still maintaining a solid experience.

Honestly Europe is pretty overrated. I know it varies from country to country, but my experiences in Sweden were nothing but disappointments. People here nut their pants over the positives while completely ignoring the many negatives.

Marxists are the bane of this site. I understand that the developers are Marxist and so this always be a persistent issue, but you have to understand one way or another that there’s a reason why Marxists aren’t welcome in most places. There is a reason why people all around the world despise them and it isn’t because they’re just immature or annoying.

Even if ignore all the horrific history that happened under Marxism and the implications of supporting that, and focus exclusively on modern Marxists on this site, you’ll immediately see some of the most vile shit on the internet. You’ve got crime and violence advocacy, dictator apologizers, tyrannical regime support, terrorist sympathizing, victim blaming, antisemitism, genocide denial, disgusting amounts of hate, conspiracy theories, literal propaganda, and all of this is packaged with zero amounts of decency. Marxists on the internet somehow manage to be worse than /pol/ in toxicity, and /pol/ is notorious for how toxic it is.

I personally have a high tolerance for bullshit views. I am willing to engage with Marxists if they appear to at least have a moral compass, but the reality is that most of them don’t. They really are either mind numbingly stupid or straight up evil, and a lot of cases it’s both. Marxists are in the same tier of trash as neo nazis and theocrats. Equally as stupid, equally as violent, equally as ignorant, equally as hateful, and equally as tyrannical. They are the lowest of the low. This was something that was supposed to happen a looooong time ago. I’m surprised it took this long for this instance to defederate, but better late than never.

This is such a stupid perspective because it’s literally just guilt by association. No, sitting down with someone with vile views does not make you endorse, condone, or otherwise suppoer those vile views.

This quote is from 2008… that’s 15 years ago. Back then calling them aboriginals was a politically correct term. This “first nation”/“first Canadian” trend is incredibly recent and it still isn’t widely accepted.

Of course, he’ll complain. Your point is simply illogical. Zelensky is not some smooth brain moral expert wannabe on the internet. He is the president of a country that’s at war. He has his country’s best interests at heart, therefore he will do whatever will help his country. He needs the support of Israel, he needs the support of the US, he needs the support of the UK, he needs the support of the EU. They’re the ones who stood by him in his country’s darkest days and helped Ukraine have a fighting chance against the world’s second most powerful military.

Why would he not return the favor when one of these countries gets invaded to improve relations? Why would he risk support for his own country by not doing so? By the same token, why would he be okay with other countries that are siding with the enemy country? He’s going to have whatever stances helps Ukraine the most. In war you have to do whatever is necessary to weaken your enemy and strengthen yourself.

Why would he care? He’s fighting a war and his own people are getting slaughtered. He needs to say whatever he needs to get the necessary support to win. Israel is a powerful country and his country needs their support.

Yes, they are lol

They’re all in fierce competition as to who can be the most evil and corrupt