And this is the Hexbear reply thread. Please be very wary of the extremism and bigotry and know that they are largely defederated
And this is the Hexbear reply thread. Please be very wary of the extremism and bigotry and know that they are largely defederated
Oh man, sorry you went through that. They try to ‘dunk’ on me quite often, but it always backfires on them, funnily enough. Never had any of them actually confront me. Too scared, I suppose.
Meh, I’m not worried about myself, so much as whether the Fediverse itself will survive. Every single person that I’ve recommended it to irl comes back in our next encounter with how much politically extremist - and violent - rhetoric is used. Chapotraphouse is the least of the Fediverse’s troubles, though it too is one of them.
Overall though they seem connected: not wanting to defederate from either lemmy.ml with its constant calls for guillotines (I mean… not that I don’t understand the reason for such:-) or from hexbear.net, mainstream users are being turned away.
And since like 90% of Fediverse content is made by a couple handfuls of people, I do worry about our long-term sustainability. Oh well.
Yeah, the fediverse will die in a few years but I don’t exclusively blame the tankies for this, it was always designed for them in mind to begin with.
I blame the regular users who, upon hearing about conservatives, immediately threw a fit and defederated all conservative instances before they could even get going. I think most Americans are to blame, really, their social divide is too overbearing and not at all willing to mingle with those of opposing political ideology.
The best solution I can think of is a federated chatroom, IRC-type deal. Not entirely sure on the logistics of how such a thing would even be moderated, but yeah, too much politics, not enough porn.
I’m personally willing to put in some effort to grow more content across the fediverse, branch out in topics. Maybe a general/random community will do well, where anything goes, but it’ll need some dedicated members to get a foundation. Up to you, I suppose.