I've always dug your views and you should bring dubvee back! Do the relaunch!!!
The downvotes on your post, proves your point about extremists. The only people who would be offended by your post, are people who don't want neutral, nuanced discussion.
They heard about lemmy as “reddit, but with fewer bots”. They have jobs and hobbies and friends in the real world - all sorts of reasons to care about anything other than the specific instance of a random social media platform they are joining.
So much this! Not everyone on Lemmy wants their entire life defined by political news. lol
There are gay conservatives though. And there are conservatives who support LGBTQIA+ causes.
OP sounds like he's just tired of the extremism of everything, not just left or conservative. So maybe he's just a centralist or something.
Not just lemmy.ml logic. A lot of people on Lemmy would call you a Trump supporter simply because you helped that neighbor. lol The extremism here has been getting really nasty lately.
In mod logs I am seeing a lot more banning for "advocating violence." I guess the good news about that is that mods are banning people for advocating violence, so there's that.
Great answer! Good to see a balanced take.
Lemmy has developed a habit of branding anything it dislikes as “fascist” or “nazi,” even neutral reporting from outlets like AP. I've even seen news articles from AP get called fascist propaganda simply because they reported facts in a neutral tone instead of demanding that all Republicans be removed from society.
Nuance isn't a strong point for a lot of Lemmy ragers. Many users came from Reddit after bans or because they found Reddit insufficiently leftist. Lemmy calling Reddit “conservative” is wildly out of touch.
So it's especially nice to see a reasonable, level-headed reply here.
Loving it so far.
Oh boy, this article is gonna make Lemmy mad lol
Why are all these depositions closed door? What are they afraid of?
I almost bought a Banana Pi because of the price! But was early days and just not a lot of documentation. I'm still learning my way, so at this stage I need all the documenation and help I can get. But I'd still like a small collection of alt Pis.
It actually is news. Lots of people don't know anything about caffeine/preworkout stuff. And yes, it can be dangerous if you take a pre-workout and don't realize there is caffeine in it. Caffeine is mostly harmless, but it's def bad for some people with heart conditions.
Now was there anything new in this article for me or for you? Know. But you'd be shocked at how many people just don't know what goes on with the stuff they ingest.
I'll have to check it out. I never heard of it until the movie promotion, but it sounds good!
Lemmy is open to anyone though. Excluding someone based on what they believe, slides into the very fascism that many on Lemmy proclaim to be against. Intolerance is never a good thing, regardless of what your political outlook is.
You are certainly to welcome block people you don't want to associate with, but trying to exclude a group of people because you don't believe them is nothing to brag about.
I can assure you that there plenty of moderate conservatives. Your refusal to admit this, is the exact sort of extremism that OP is trying to stay away from.
Again, you are free to believe that and act accordingly, but excluding someone from a platform, purely based on their beliefs, is what you are supposed to be fighting against.
Many on Lemmy think conservatives exclude people based on their beliefs, and are close-minded. Now look at your words and switch use the words "liberal" instead of "conservative."
If you read a conservative saying the exact same thing you said, but using "liberal" instead of "conservative," you'd be pretty angry. You are doing the exact thing that you accuse them of doing.