After years of reddit/twitter/facebook propping up fascism/bigotry with algorithms & bots I’m honestly surprised and relieved to be in an online space that clearly rejects their ideology.
They can have reddit/facebook/twitter. AFAIC the only way to reach some of these people is to leave them alone long enough to realize on their own.
Lemmy.world admins are doing an amazing job dealing with everything. Their recent decision to defederate from exploding heads (or whatever its called) really goes to show that they’re in it for the right reasons.
They don’t learn though. While you may derive pleasure from their ignorance, there are some who may get sucked into their worldview who may not otherwise be. Free speech doesn’t require a community to put up with their nonsense.
I don’t derive pleasure from their ignorance. From that I derive migraines. It’s specifically their failure to gain traction here on lemmy that I must admit to a degree of schadenfreude.
But for real, I’ve lost dear friends to this movement. At this point I’ve simply recognized that the only way to save those people is to be patient and keep an open door in case they do realize they’re being duped. It’s that or drive them further into the cult.
Thankfully lemmy is not putting up with their nonsense. I don’t actually care if they get banned or not. I can only hope that seeing that their rhetoric only trends in spaces known to be bot-ridden and algo-driven will cause the most rational of them to wake up.
What does free speech have to do with it? Free speech right guarantees that you won’t be prosecuted by the government for your words. It doesn’t apply to private communications.
Free speech as a law, maybe, but many people like myself view it as an ideal.