This just makes me sad. So I now have to decide now - enjoy the fantastic comms on db0 or to have access to the biggest community of my region and language but not both?
I just wanted a nice, enjoyable thing to do and engage with after reddit, practice my French, have a laugh about some innocent memes, and have some interesting interactions with like-minded people, but now I’m marked as a Nazi and Zionist just because of the instance I chose to create an account on?
It honestly hurts to read all that vitriol. To be thrown into the same pot as people I despise the most. I just came back from a protest against the AfD a few weeks ago, for heaven’s sake, and now I’m considered a Nazi myself.
I could do that, and I may. I would be more enthusiastic about it however if I had actually personally encountered the issues as criticized.
The users I interact with are normal people, the political differences I encounter are usually about the sensibility or implementation of certain policies, not about whether a genocide is happening in Gaza (which I find is undisputed, just to make my position clear).
What I HAVE seen (in real life) is people being unsure about whether (or how) to speak out against the Israeli war machine because they are afraid of being branded racists, but that’s a German problem due to our history and people conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism, not one specific to the instance.
I get what you’re saying and agree to some extent, but for local and language-specific instances in particular losing access to /local really does suck.
The lemmy client voyager allow you to easily switch between accounts
Zionism is a supermasist genocidal ideology like Nazi. People don’t means literally Nazis when refering to Zionists just like people do not mean literal nazis when talking about white supermasist.
I don’t consider you a zionazi unless you start defending zionism. You can lose grants in Germany for supporting BDS
In 2023 and 2024, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) classified the BDS movement as a “suspected extremist threat”
How can I trust people in Germany to be able to allow mentionning that some europeans products on lemmy?
nysqin@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This just makes me sad. So I now have to decide now - enjoy the fantastic comms on db0 or to have access to the biggest community of my region and language but not both?
I just wanted a nice, enjoyable thing to do and engage with after reddit, practice my French, have a laugh about some innocent memes, and have some interesting interactions with like-minded people, but now I’m marked as a Nazi and Zionist just because of the instance I chose to create an account on?
It honestly hurts to read all that vitriol. To be thrown into the same pot as people I despise the most. I just came back from a protest against the AfD a few weeks ago, for heaven’s sake, and now I’m considered a Nazi myself.
Maybe I need to disengage from Lemmy, too.
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Or you could change instance. If your admins are this adamant about Zionism and stopping anti-zionist voices, why would you want to stay there?
There are French instances like jlai.lu and tarte.nuage-libre.fr if you want to practice your French.
This is the power of the Fediverse, we aren’t limited to one instance or set of administration policies.
nysqin@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I could do that, and I may. I would be more enthusiastic about it however if I had actually personally encountered the issues as criticized.
The users I interact with are normal people, the political differences I encounter are usually about the sensibility or implementation of certain policies, not about whether a genocide is happening in Gaza (which I find is undisputed, just to make my position clear).
What I HAVE seen (in real life) is people being unsure about whether (or how) to speak out against the Israeli war machine because they are afraid of being branded racists, but that’s a German problem due to our history and people conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism, not one specific to the instance.
Blaze@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
If you are looking for another German instance, https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is great, they offer a few other services at https://tchncs.de/
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
I get what you’re saying and agree to some extent, but for local and language-specific instances in particular losing access to /local really does suck.
mrdown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The lemmy client voyager allow you to easily switch between accounts
Zionism is a supermasist genocidal ideology like Nazi. People don’t means literally Nazis when refering to Zionists just like people do not mean literal nazis when talking about white supermasist.
I don’t consider you a zionazi unless you start defending zionism. You can lose grants in Germany for supporting BDS
In 2023 and 2024, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) classified the BDS movement as a “suspected extremist threat”
How can I trust people in Germany to be able to allow mentionning that some europeans products on lemmy?
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You could have the best of both worlds by joining a neutral instance or selfhost one and tailoring your feed.
Blaze@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Sorry to hear. Hope the protest was good.
nysqin@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
We had a fantastic time, thanks. It was small but it was good to see the neighborhood come together against the fascists.
Blaze@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Good to see indeed!