Why is the solarpunk memes community on this instance filled with such massively anti-left folks?
If I had to wager a guess, it likely more of a backlash against .ml and hexbear more than anything, which are unfortunately the main ambassadors of “leftist” ideology on the fediverse. These instances legitimately make leftists look bad, to the point where it actually feels like it has come all the way back around as self parody.
Hexbear is good and most of the negative things people have to say about it are completely made up
Idk about completely. They’ll just straight up slobber on Putin’s knob and it simply doesn’t make sense without the community being compromised by a troll farm somewhere.
Xi at least has some deniability to his fascism and a hope of Da Revolushion turning a corner at some point. Putin’s literally just a fascist invading his neighbors out of rank imperialism.
They’ll just straight up slobber on Putin’s knob
Yeah, this is the completely made up stuff I was talking about thanks for the demonstration. If you think anyone on hexbear is a fan of Putin you have obviously never opened the site even once.
Also if you were being homophobic like this on hexbear you’d be banned, which is the correct position to take
What part of that is homophobic?
Referring to sucking dick in an insulting way is a very common form of homophobia. The implication being that sucking dick is bad and shameful and is inherently insulting.
Arguably just as misogynistic as it is homophobic, if not more so.
Homophobia is often rooted in misogyny, so…
Sure if you completely disregard context you could interpret it as homophobic, but the way they used the insult was only to imply hexbear users are submissive towards Putin to the point of performing sexual favors for him. Not saying I agree with it, just trying to clarify and point out how you’re being a bit over-zealous.
Funny how it’s always sucking dick that is used pejoratively like that, just coincidentally of course.
It’s super rare to have a pleasant interaction with hexbear users. And I think thats something they are proud of. To me this just really sad, because how exactly are you spreading your propaganda effectively when everyone just thinks you are annoying?
Also on hexbear users of other instances or other instances as a whole get heavily misrepresented and there seems to be no good faith when interacting with other communities that are not closely aligned in their political stance. (Of course hexbear itself also suffers from lots of misrepresentation, which probably contributes a lot to their in group / out group thinking)
it’s super rare to have a pleasant interaction with hexbear users.
In my experience that is because it’s super rare for liberals to approach socialists in good faith. They don’t pleasantly interact with bad faith trolls, with transphobes, with homophobes, with racists, with misogynists, with fascists, and so on. If you were to approach them in good faith you would find nothing but pleasant interaction.
The anti-left sentiment is coming primarily from outside slrpnk. Solarpunk memes is the most popular community on the instance, giving it broad reach, and lemmy is broadly liberal with a few leftist sanctuaries (the most extreme of which are defederated from the liberal instances).
The way I see it, we have a couple options. Either we can go the way of lemmy.ml or hexbear and heavily censor liberals, creating constant inter-instance drama and likely ending up defederated, or we can accept that our most popular communities will be full of liberals in the comments and treat them as a form of outreach.
I prefer the second option. For one, even though the comments are full of liberals, the posts themselves are overwhelmingly leftist, which means a lot of liberals are being exposed to leftist views. They will reject it most of the time - as most people do when confronted with views that conflict with their own - but sometimes something might stick, and that’s a good thing. Also we have our smaller and more niche communities to hang out in if you want to avoid the liberals.
I would like to hear @poVoq@slrpnk.net chime in on this, as they will be the one to ultimately decide the direction of the instance.
The funny thing about Lemmy liberals is they’ll agree with just about everything anti-capitalist until you actually call it anti-capitalism.
We as admins obviously have some red lines, but overall as @ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net has already commented in this thread it is up to the community moderators to steer the individual community’s direction.
Overall I agree with the outreach notion, but I did notice an increase in relatively low effort liberal rage-bait “memes” being posted in our /c/memes community with predictable results in the comments (including right-wing trolling to fan the flames). I don’t think those specific memes are particularly effective as outreach tools, so it would be probably beneficial to do a bit more early moderation on that part.
If you think that’s bad try posting on the vegan community 😆
So many lefties are pro-liberation until animal liberation comes up. Then, they immediately turn into reactionaries.
Yup. I see neoliberal takes ALL THE TIME on that instance, especially likely to jump down your throat if you want to be intellectually honest about the true nature of the hyper-materialistic, corporatist Democrat establishment in the US.
Slrpnk and lemmy in general is just a bunch of yuppies.
👏Fucking exactly.
Using the right pronouns to describe the homeless family that they stepped over on their way to the ATM.
Lemmy.world users: “I’m all for equal rights except when it comes to poor people or people being blown to bits by the missiles that pay for my 401K.”
