About a week now since I joined Lemmy. It seemed to me at first that place like this, where the tech knowledge prerequisites are a little higher than Reddit or Twitter, and being a lot of Reddit refugees, would be a bit of a liberal haven.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against discourse, although these days that is trying at best. But, in the last few days I’ve been running into a lot of bullshit MAGA style nonsense on Lemmy.
And, I gotta say, that’s a bit disappointing.
Definitely no stranger to calling them out.
What are the rules like around here? I need to know how rude I’m allowed to be
Edit: you’re on lemmy.world, who is already blocking many maga instances… I would just message admins whenever you see new toxic instances and they can add them to the blocked list
Right, right. But, like, let’s say, hypothetically speaking, I wanted to be rude to them. Hypothetically, how rude can you be?
I mean, don’t get me wrong I would love to be vindictively rude to these guys as a sort of catharsis. But, I always wonder what good it actually does. They have a worldview in which they are the main characters and everyone is against them and their in-group. They want you to be an asshole to them because it strengthens their victimhood complexes.
I figure, in this community, as soon as a MAGAt pops their head up, it’s an insta-ban. I have to deal with them in daily life enough as it is. They do set me off. Like, instant rage. Which really isn’t healthy. I try to keep a handle on it and not engage.
Shouldn’t be a problem here. This isn’t really going to be a place for debate, or both sidesism, or anything.
Heh, you definitely will have to keep an eye on 1 or two just in this thread, lest we be bombarded with apologists and whataboutisms.