Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.
Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.
Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.
I went to their instance but only found a single post?
Edit: Oh it’s a community, but it’s contained right? I’m getting pretty tired of people talking about Lemmy in general when a simple defederation solves the issue.
lemmygrad.ml is not federated with many, many other instances exactly because of their authoritarian BS, including dbzer0.com. you might need to log out and visit lemmygrad.ml directly.
If you want the general idea you can also just take a look at [email protected] and search for lemmy.ml.
I went to lemmygrad to view the user, I know about the defederationI didn’t realise you were talking about communitiesdoesn’t make sense to single out any user over there, they are all bootlickers for the kinds of Putin and Xi. Funnily enough, this would make them prime MAGA material too lol
I get it, it’s just not a good enough reference for a Lemmy-wide issue. Reddit had MAGA and die hard conservative communities, but they stay isolated; just as I’m seeing here on Lemmy. On Reddit they had brigading issues periodically, just as on Lemmy, you can just defederate on instance or user basis and problem solved.