Don’t bend the knee to other instances, let them all defederate if they can’t handle free speech. Its clear that a lot of other instances want to run their sites like Reddit 2.0 with heavy censorship. They complain so much about Reddit but yet want Lemmy to be just like it.
Ryan Long is on Youtube and has some pretty good material
It’s normal as a teenager to not feel right in your body as you go through puberty. It’s normal to have a desire to fit in amongst your classmates. How many of us look back at old pictures from our teenage years and cringe at the clothes and hairstyles that were in at the time. Those weren’t permanent body alterations so we were able to change later on. Nowadays people take advantage of teenagers by convincing them that normal teenage insecurities are actually because they are trans and they need to make permanent alterations to their body in order to feel confident in their body.
There’s an old episode of Cheers where they are concerned that letting one gay customer into the bar would cause them to invite their gay friends and it would turn into a gay bar. Sounds like they just replaced gay person with Nazi in their story.
When I was first taught about using the internet for school research back in the late 90s, they told us to not believe everything we read because anyone can publish whatever they want. It was an accepted fact and you were taught how to do your own research. The early internet was the wild west. Nowadays people act like misinformation online is a new thing and they want site moderators and even the government to censor anything deemed misinformation, AKA anything that goes against their opinions.
Its crazy how things changed in the last 10-15 years. This old College Humor video is an interesting look back at the flame war comment sections of the late 2000s It used to be that we didn’t take stuff so seriously online, even on Reddit back in the day you could call OP a removed and not get banned. It seems these days the people who call themselves tolerant are the most intolerant. I thought Lemmy world and similar sites were going to be more like the early days of Reddit, but its clearly turning into current Reddit. If these people want heavy censorship and mods that close threads because people can’t “behave”, why don’t they just go back to Reddit.
I joined Lemmy.world during the Reddit blackout because it was the largest instance. I noticed the site leaned heavily to the left but this is to be expected since Reddit does too. I blocked all of the political communities since I just wanted to read about technology and other non political things like I do on Reddit, since the rest of that site is also a liberal cesspool.
I came to Lemmy.world one day to see a post about a Nazi instance and went to the post to figure out what the URL was. I would never join an actual Nazi site but in 2023 the left calls anyone that disagrees with them a Nazi. I had hoped Lemmy would be like the earlier days of Reddit where things weren’t so politically correct, but I shouldn’t have been surprised that Reddit refugees would want a Reddit like experience with heavy moderation and down votes for anyone who dares to disagree with the left wing hivemind.
Unfortunately whenever the left bans all the right wingers from their sites, it just makes their sites more extreme left. The people they ban just go and create their own websites that become even more extreme right than what their old communities were like. This seems to be the trend over the last several years and it causes political discussion sites to become extremist circlejerks. I’d love to find an instance that allows more reasonable debate and isn’t heavily moderated like Reddit. So far this instance has potential.