Do you enjoy websites where are you Are not allowed to explore your own creativity? do you like being held back by someone who is threatened by someone or something they may challenge the status quo of What is acceptable of their mind? I believe that all of you are capable of great things. Let me ask you another question, do you enjoy freedom or do you enjoy incarceration? Do you enjoy gate keepers of knowledge holding you back from seeing what the truth is? Do you believe that a soaring eagle should be kept in a cage and never allowed to spread its wings? I want you to know that I would rather be on hand with 10 good men than absent with 10,000. Be free and keep your principles close to heart. I’d rather live one day as a free man than 100 years as a slave.
I appreciate what you are doing over here. I am truly enjoying the show as all these ex-redditors who I believed must have some capacity for independent thought and respect for freedom of speech to finally leave that platform show their true colors.
On one hand, it IS hilarious. On the other, it’s sad as fuck because it’s completely broken any excitement I had for lemmy as a large scale platform. It turns out, it was the users and mods who were the problem on reddit all along.
They’ve brought their baggage with them. All the disgusting pedo psyops they’ve swallowed and absorbed, all of their self-assurance that they are right and good, and anyone who disagrees with them is literally hitler.
It’s just more of the same bullshit that reddit turned into. You aren’t allowed to spit facts, because a lot of those facts contradict the little narrative they have constructed in their head. Already the moderation on some of these instances is fucking disgusting. Posts that go against the grain just disappear. No warning, no ban, no notice - your shit is just gone because some moddy-boi that changes pronouns depending on the weather got their feelings hurt.
Having said all that, I’m not sure what we will really achieve here if it’s just going to be 4chan lite. Stick to your guns, refuse to censor and ban. Allow proper discourse and proper debate when the science seems fishy, but don’t just become caricatures of what they believe you to be.
From what I’ve seen today over at sh.itheads.justvomitculturewartalkingpoints I don’t want a bar of it any longer - but this place needs to grow in a principled fashion if it’s ever going to be a success.
There are already other spaces where you can post contrarian opinions. Let’s do more than that. Let’s play their dumb little game in reverse.