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nanook@friendica.eskimo.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

@WatDabney @FrostyTrichs I started my friendica instance after facebook banned me for pointing out issues with the Covid-19 vax, then I started my mastodon instance after twatter did the same prior to Elon's ownership. I've had some hardware issues along the way but we've got those straightened out. There seems to be the this false assumption on many peoples part that fediverse instances should be echo chambers like the old facebook and twitter were. I think it's healthy for opposing viewpoints to be expressed, but I believe it is unhealthy to allow to degrade to ad hominem attacks, I run my sites accordingly, others don't feel this way they prefer an echo chamber and there are instances that accommodate those folks well, and to me this is the beauty of the fediverse. I personally prefer long format posting because I don't believe short format provides the opportunity for the depth of discussion needed to explore opposing view, historical perspective, cause and effect elaboration, etc, which is, of my nodes I spend most of my time on friendica. Friendica is however not efficient, it takes a lot of hardware resources to run it efficiently.

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Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
alot of people came here from the recent reddit ban waves, which correlated with the large jump in users on .ee, unfortunately, it also includes people that were banned for spreading rw propaganda, israeli talking points, general trolls. legitmate users were also part of those bans.

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- nanook@friendica.eskimo.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  @Ledericas Unfortunately, this is often how it goes. The fact that I got some 30 or so dislikes and two SYN flood DoS attacks for simply offering my services I guess illustrates the make up of the crowd. Ah well, they will all relocate somewhere and life will go on.
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TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This right here is why you should stay in school.

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Wiz@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

issues with the Covid-19 vax

healthy for opposing viewpoints

Vaccine skepticism is not a “healthy viewpoint”, but quite the opposite. Vaccines and inoculations are about as much “proven science” as we have, with hundreds of years behind the science. Spreading anti-vaxxer propaganda kills people.

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- Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Spreading anti-vaxxer propaganda kills people.
  
  Antivaxxers are traitors to their species.
  
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- elephantium@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  “proven science”
  
  Vaccines are a good example here. Handwashing is another. We’ve had empirical proof on the latter since the 1850s, but it’s STILL super hit or miss whether people will bother :(
  
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booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I think it’s healthy for opposing viewpoints to be expressed

Yeah, that way the community can get inoculated with these ideas and learns how to respond to them, and over enough time the response gets faster and more efficient so that the body as a whole builds up a resistance against whenever those types of comments show up.

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- A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is why we don’t need vaccines.
  
  We just need gradual exposure to a lesser form of bullshit, so we can develop immunity to the greater whole of bullshit!
  
  /s
  
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ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If only you could dedicate as much effort into understanding basic science.

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