I’ll rather choose myself which social media platforms I use rather than let the authorities decide for me. Banning things you don’t like is not a solution because soon the things you do like are getting banned too because someone else doesn’t like them. This is so incredibly narrow sighted.

And Lemmy, Mastodon, Bluesky etc.

Is there no disinformation on other social media platforms?

How is that even remotely equivalent comparison?

I don’t think it’s that they don’t listen to anyone. People generally are open to hear different views as long as it’s done in good faith rather that in the form of accusations. Nobody wants to hear from someone who openly treats them as second class citizens. If you treat them with dignity and are open to hear their views as well you’re far more likely to get them to reflect on their own views too. Daryl Davis is a good example of this.

Any vending machine can be hacked. We used to get free sodas from one twenty years ago.

Well I mean you can go around calling them fascists all you want. That already got you Trump twice but maybe 3rd time is the charm.

Do you think they’re going to accept that he is one when the accusation is coming from someone on the left? I doubt it.

I don’t think that calling someone a pedophile is any more convincing than calling them a nazi. If anything, that’ll just make them dig their heels deeper.

I’ve been on both for over a decade longer than on Lemmy.

You literally cannot come closer to having your brains blown out and live to tell the tale. To downplay that as if it wasn’t a big deal is ridiculous and unreasonable.

He did literally get shot though.

When Q-Anon spreads baseless pedophile ring accusations it’s ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.

What ever gets a reaction from the opposition I guess

Makes no difference to me.

I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I’ve made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.

ITT: People realising most of the world lives outside their bubble

(commenting from alt account as lemm.ee is down again)

Don’t worry, I’m relatively satisfied with my life and have no desire in ending it. I’m just in the lonely chapter of my life where I’ve outgrown my old friend group but haven’t yet found the new ones. I don’t consider AI my friend. It’s just something to bounce my esoteric thoughts off.