So I joined lemmy.world when reddit shot itself in the snoo and thought it was great. But the decision to defederate from hexbear because of political disagreements over NATO etc just seems over the top.

In the comments of the announcement that admins posted the overwhelming consensus seems to be people think it’s a bad move. Few comments in support of it. Other threads have popped up says can we vote on things like this?

Here’s how I’m voting: fuck Lemmy.world I’m deleting my account. I got no time for more ‘centrist’ authoritarians.

  • LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
    241·
    1 year ago

    As others asked over there, why not Lemmygrad too? If they do defederate from LG they’ll have a toxic echo chamber that will just become another Reddit/Stormfont that will suck more and more as time goes on. I kind of want to see that happen, something else will take dotworld’s place before too long.

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      271·
      1 year ago

      Lemmygrad is smaller and the feds that have a stake in .world like to use it as a gate to jump in and harass us because we are smaller, more vulnerable to their attacks, and easier to deal with when we cross into their territory.

      Hexbear is huge, even more active, and have tons of experience with struggle sessions and bullying liberals. Not that some of our comrades aren’t great at taking the fight to them but, as I said, it’s a numbers issue. Libs and feds tend to only like to pick fights with groups smaller than them if they can. Because they are cowards.

    • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
      12·
      1 year ago

      best reason to have a lemmygrad account is that it will get you a lot more leeway in heated discussions, if you accidentally post some liberalism you will be dunked on much harder posting from an account that’s not lemmygrad, since we know that you know enough about marxism that at least the admins let you have an account

      Also I didnt want to have to put in an email lol

    • WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      1 year ago

      You’re fine for now. I only have a lemmygrad account at the moment, but there’s no real harm in having multiple accounts either. Karma isn’t a thing here.

      I personally signed up here instead of world because I wanted the instance tag in light of the liberal backlash about having to share space with communists.