Comment on A little history on Reddit. From the politics subreddit with just 85,678 users in 2008 to 500 million active users today. Lemmy/Kbin will follow the same path.

AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• varzaman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s 100% going to be.

  Lemmy isn’t “special”. I’ve already seen hot takes and other things to get people riled up on Lemmy.

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• hoodatninja@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen enough “stop the steal” and other MAGA nonsense unaddressed here currently has me worried it’ll be /r/politics all over again, unfortunately.

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  • PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Shills, activists, trolls, state actors, and advertisers follow the eyeballs. They don’t give a crap if it is on the fediverse or some other platform.

    If the fediverse capabilities can’t evolve to provide controls, then it’s doomed to failure. It’s already bad enough that bot accounts will create a new community then spam the crap out of it to appear on the “hot” view. Expect this to be turbocharged as the US enters another election cycle.

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  • AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Admins did take steps against far-right instances. But I didn’t mean politics, but more stuff like Redditors coming here and trying to import toxic stuff that Reddit used to allow, the whole “I’m gonna stalk you and downvote you everywhere” retaliation mentality because of karma, the low-effort comments and the flame-baits (which Reddit loved since it created more engagement) etc…

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    • livus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I've already seen a couple of downvote-you-everywhere people being called out for doing it (votes are accessible in ActivityPub, and very easy to see in kbin).

      I don't think it's as easy for them to flourish here.

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• Ohthereyouare@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So far on Lemmy, whenever I see someone comment this, it’s because they’re mad Reddit got “toxic towards my free speech to stupid ass MAGA nonsense”. Is that what you mean by Reddit being “toxified”?

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  • AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, but your comment immediately assuming out of nowhere that everyone is a MAGAta*d is. Just holy cow, go outside and breathe man.

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  • PenguinJuice@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think there's a lot of people who desire free speech outside of MAGA people.

    But I even believe they should have free speech too. Free speech is the most important element of our society imo.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The problem is some people only believe in free speech for their ideas. They want to censor the other side.

      I believe in free speech but disruptions should be prevented.

      Reddit took a weird approach to Covid which caused a lot of misinformation to proliferate with any discussion.

      People were banned if they questioned the efficacy of masks. Leading experts in the field were saying they were not effective. Yet, Reddit was trying to determine what the “truth” was.

      I believe it should be discussed. Now we it resorts to just name calling or cliche such as follow the science. It needs to be put down.

      Passing ideas and debate are good for society.

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      • PenguinJuice@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The government doesn't like people questioning the narrative and I think a lot of these moves by social media platforms are an attempted method to train people to behave that way.

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