Submitted 4 months ago by mo_ztt@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.world
Out of curiosity I went to exploding-heads.com and it looks like it’s not working anymore. Is there a new place they hang out now? Are they undercover on the regular servers or something? It’d be a little surprising to me if they all just gave up on being active on the Fediverse.
Conservatives hate being alone with each other because, surprise, they’re all shit people who just lie and hate 24/7
I love you, can i be your bf?
They exploded
Only their heads
On your moms face maybe
You sound like a very stable genius
My favorite theory is that they realized their similarity to hexbears and tankies and joined that chapter of ‘people who can’t handle living in a mixed society’.
I miss the tankies. I assume they’re still around somewhere, but now they’re all drowned out by the “look what I found on Twitter” bros. I didn’t agree with them, but for a while, Lemmy felt like the old internet.
Lmao they got defederated en masse because (drum roll) they were all abrasive pricks. Same with these maga chuds.
Awww you missed us lol yes im here
Just go to a different instance there’s a shit ton of em lol
And somehow both of them push propaganda aligned with the Kremlin…
‘people who can’t handle living in a mixed society’
That’s … both sides, all sides, isn’t it? Specifically for exploding-heads, there were numerous and loud calls on multiple instances to defederate from them.
Are you for real? You do realize that “mixed society” is referring to actual real life, right?
Above you can see ‘Exhibit a’ in my case that hexbears, magas and incels can’t handle free will.
Woof bro, there’s still time to delete this cringey shit
ootl why this is funny?
Is it funny? I thought it was mostly sad.
I’ve seen a couple active on Lemmy.world lately, but nothing out of the ordinary. They’ll be back though, one way or the other. We have to be aware of that.
They migrated elsewhere to another platform months ago. I can’t even remember which one.
Nostr
Ah, the Grand Wizard himself! With such a stable group of geniuses, you’d think you wouldn’t have such a hard time finding a place to crash to burn crosses, or jerk each other off, or whatever it is you do in your safe space echo chambers.
(it sucked because you and your ilk were there)
They went to nostr or other parts of the fediverse because the lemmyverse is toxic and they were constantly facing attacks of various types. Same thing that happened to wolfballs before it.
Some of the users might lurk on other servers, but I have my doubts. The point was to have a place they could be free to talk about things the establishment were censoring. Most of the colonizers from Reddit don't realize those servers existed long before most of what are considered the big Lemmy servers today even existed.
If the goal was just to troll redditors, there's always reddit.
the lemmyverse is toxic and they were constantly facing attacks of various types
This is a very subtle but very powerful way of recasting what actually happened. I’ve dealt with this in conversations face-to-face with conservative people who’ve had interactions online, so I know how unfortunately powerful it is.
I’d be very surprised if any substantial number of the users on exploding-heads got “attacked” – as in, had child porn posted to their servers by their ideological enemies, or got doxxed, or anything like that. What they got was disagreed with, or defended against.
If you frame being disagreed with as an “attack,” then it means that anything that makes sense is a threat. You have to double down and find a way to “strike back.” Or you have to withdraw from the conversation and talk about you’re “always getting attacked.” If your whole mental model is that way, then anyone at all who might understand the world a little better than you is all of a sudden your enemy, and worst of all, if what they’re saying makes sense, then you must withdraw from the conversation, because now you’re in danger of becoming an “enemy” to your ideological friends, if you start agreeing with that person. It’s like in a big fistfight if you all of a sudden switch sides and start beating up your friends. Why would you do that?
And so, your viewpoint can never change, because that’s “defeat.” That’s the insidiousness of this whole framing.
Furthermore, if you’re brigading or trolling or being offensive, and someone blocks you, then you’re being “attacked” or “silenced” or whatever. Any offensive behavior of your own is just good clean fun, even if you’re trying to ruin some feminist critic’s life or posting child porn. Any action that makes it difficult to do that is just evidence that the whole system is rigged against you, and a reason to start whining about unfairness.
I have a couple of conservative views, and I actually sorta sympathize with the idea that the lemmyverse is pretty one-sided in how it views certain issues. But going beyond that to say exploding-heads was “constantly facing attacks” is only true if you torture the language in a very specific, deliberate, and insidious way.
The point was to have a place they could be free to talk about things the establishment were censoring.
I’ve deliberately made a point to express some views here that I know are extremely unpopular (very sincere views of mine, but ones that I know will cause controversy). Not once was I censored or prevented from speaking. On reddit, yes; certain subreddits “on the left” will ban you if you say certain things, although it’s still way more common and the bar is much lower from the right. Here, I’ve been downvoted all to hell, but Lemmy’s actually configured in a way where (at this scale of userbase) that doesn’t really make much difference to how many people can see your stuff. Not banned or had my stuff removed for ideological reasons even a single time.
Again, it’s an insidious reframing of language. Your saying “could be free to talk about things” only makes sense if that really means “could be free from anyone else’s ability to disagree.” They’re free to talk here, today, and they always were. What they want is to be able to freely talk and no one else disagree (or to be able to freely threaten or bully anyone who disagrees.) Quite frankly, what you’re saying is bullshit. I’ve gone to conservative forums on reddit and asked, hey, can I talk to you about this topic we’re in, without me being censored? They said sure, we welcome all points of view here, we don’t do censorship. Guess what happened literal minutes later?
Trump does the same. He literally had all his social media accounts in place, and a podium in the White House where he could literally stand up and say literally anything he wanted into the camera and it’d be broadcast, and he was still whining about censorship. He didn’t mean anything of his was being censored. He meant he was being “censored” from everyone being forced to broadcast his stuff without being allowed to disagree.
He literally had all his social media accounts in place, and a podium in the White House where he could literally stand up and say literally anything he wanted into the camera and it’d be broadcast, and he was still whining about censorship.
Clearly, conservative voices are being silenced. (clip is from Death to 2020)
Very well said!
Beind told you’re wrong and to stop spreading harmful misinformation isn’t censorship.
Being disagreed with isn’t being attacked.
A privately owned and operated forum banning you and deleting your posts for breaking their rules isn’t “the establishment” censoring you.
Censorship is the institution, system, or practice of censoring. To censor is to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.
The Establishment is the part of a particular group that has power or control.
If the most powerful government on earth contacts the largest and most powerful companies on earth in order to categorically suppress or delete certain viewpoints or certain speakers, then by definition that is "'the establishment' censoring you". The fact that you agree with the censorship doesn't make it not censorship, and framing it in a moralistic way doesn't make it not censorship. Being moralistic didn't make it not censorship when the right was doing it.
Exploding-heads as I understand it was facing DDOS attacks near the end (or at least they thought it was), that's one of the things that prompted the admin to shut it down, it wasn't worth the effort to try to keep the site up and running under such an onslaught.
Anyway, I don't know why I'd even try. You know what? You win. Everything is fine and censorship doesn't exist and the only truth is that which the government and major corporations tell you, and the government and major corporations are actually the anti-establishment fighting against the big bad individuals who believe things they're not supposed to.
They went to nostr or other parts of the fediverse because the lemmyverse is toxic and they were constantly facing attacks of various types. Same thing that happened to wolfballs before it.
LOL, DARVO much?
Man, the other day my phone didn't have internet and popped up and old copy of my lotide. It was a painful reminder of how much more fun it used to be on the threadiverse. Sad that all the fun instances shut down and we end up trapped here with a bunch of boring redditors.
Eli5 exploding-heads?
It was, approximately, 4chan reincarnated as a Lemmy instance. They were defederated from more or less everyone more or less instantly.
What’s up fellas??? Its me wiggle hard the former admin from Exploding Heads. I will probably get banned from here because that’s all you guys do cz your soft. It’s not my fault you can’t take jokes and your miserable cz your daddy didn’t hug you enough. You clowns are enemies of free speech. We shut down EH cz the other admin wanted too for personal reasons, main one being lemmy sucks and you guys are the reason. Btw eh is dead but the crew is still intact on another website (maybe even in lemmy lol up to you find out losers. Till next time keep pretending you didn’t love the drama and currently enjoy this bitchy liberal echo chamber. Bye bitches!!!
Literally who
I am the former admin of exploding heads wiggle hard
Hello! Funny that you still wiggle. Have you always been so emotional?
Anyways, my actual question for clarification is: What does ‘cz’ mean?
Because, geez get with the times and lingo
You sound immature, like a teenager. I’m glad your instance is gone.
The little kids at the playground are glad that you’re gone too, all that heavy breathing is a little creepy my guy
Hi Sandra! Remember when you banned 5 accounts of mine on a free speech forum? The only free speech that was allowed was the vile and racist type not the the one that disagreed with you.
My bad on that one buddy, but i did restore your account :)
Ever tried…idk…growing up?
🤣 your incel energy is over 9000
Fizz@lemmy.nz 4 months ago
I’m guessing they left after bring blocked by most instances. After that you may as well just go to another conservative forum.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yep
They don’t want their own instance, they want to troll everyone else.
So when that instance got defederated, they either just got a new domain using the same infrastructure or their users made accounts on less regulated but still federated instances.
I’d be really surprised if any of them only had one account to begin with.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think there is a strong analogy to be made vis-à-vis spending your energy on regulating other people’s sex lives or abortion rights or ability to come into the country or not, versus just living your own life and making it rewarding.
stillwiggle@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We actually got our own shit now, you can join, but only if you pledge allegiance to the MAGA movement and make Rudy Giuliani Simp posts
stillwiggle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nah im here telling you since you inquired of me