I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (18 children)

Hexbear is toxic, and I say that as a communist. I actually came here to escape them after being on lemmy.one.

As you pointed out lemmy.ml and lemmy.ee are still federated here, despite the beliefs of users on the server. Why, I post here about communism all the time and nobody cares.

I only mention this because its why id rather not leave this instance. Hexbear users lead a targeted harassment campaign against me.

But I agree, threads is dangerous to the Fediverse, which is the topic at hand.

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

lemm.ee isn't left wing, they just don't believe in knee jerk defederation. Check the post on defederation by the lemm.ee instance runner (https://lemm.ee/post/4543536). Very mature, very balanced and very principled. Compare that to the lemmy.world one, and it's a no contest.

I'm a socialist, and while I think tankies have a dumb conclusions (that Stalin and CCP are good things), I have not seen anything I would consider toxic. Seems that people cannot handle large images. Maybe in a world where caps lock is shouting, that's toxic. Not for me though.

Can you explain what a targeted harassment campaign is, and give examples. I've heard many people claim this, but I've never seen anyone provide evidence.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

A post I made in an unrelated thread was linked and mentioned in the "dunktank" community on hexbear telling the users there's to come "dunk" on me, followed by personal insults and in one case a guillotine threat.

However, this is not the topic of conversation, and Id prefer us stick to threads federation.

[+] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml -6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Link, please. I'm open minded but I'd like to see some evidence so I can make up my own mind on this.

[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I deleted that account and moved here, I just explained that. All of by posts are gone.

Sorry you dont trust me.

Although, as I said none of that is even relevant to this topic

[+] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml -7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As I said, I've seen a LOT of Lemmy folk claim toxicity and zero examples. The ones that provided examples was weak AF. When it goes past individual cases to a narrative with little backing up, I kind of need to see something substantial to believe it. We all know believing stuff we read online from internet strangers never goes well. We are knee deep in comments here, and comments on any thread tend to deviate. It's kind of the whole charm of things like reddit and Lemmy.

[–] Cjwii@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Then go back to hexbears bro you are simping too hard right now

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I mean it's pretty obvious I have used my account consistently for months.

You do realise you can support the concept of discussing with people that you disagree with. Echo chambers aren't healthy, or normal, unless you're very young and the internet has always been that way for you.

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