a bigger dominant group will always encounter issues when trying to gentrify a neighborhood away from it’s original inhabitants and this digital lemmy neigborhood; its original tankie inhabitants; and it’s reddit enshitification induced gentrifiers are no different.

several features of lemmyverse sustain its intended tankie audience and work against you like anti-homeless architecture if you try to dominate the discourse through banning/blocking/defederation. it’s sort of like a digital equivalent of anti-homeless-spikes or anti-homeless split public benches; but for people who try to power trip when enforcing moderate only views like most of these moderators and admins do.

martin luther king jr believed that moderates have “shallow understanding” and the reddit refugee’s desire to maintain that shallow understanding has shepherded them to self sorted, into mostly inactive echo chambers and the few active ones have censorship problems since those refugees have; effectively; cut themselves off from a majority of the discourse on the lemmyverse.

i likewise have shallow understanding of the lemmyverse’s issues from a moderate’s perspective. i think i’m more tolerant of people with THOROUGHLY uninformed political views due to having immediate maga family members and i think that’s served me well in accepting that i’m in a tankie safe space and adapting myself to thrive in it instead of trying to force the environment to suite me. those same family members have also taught me to accept when someone’s world views are so delicate that they simply can’t handle anything to the contrary, so i can accept that reddit liberals don’t want to talk to tankies and i hope that they can find something about this place to stay.

if they leave they’ll discover that no reddit diaspora has ever survived and the lemmyverse is in the best situation to survive if it can capitalize enough on the relatively huge user base bump and the political disposition of this particular diaspora. leaving also means either going back to reddit or signing up with bluesky where future enshitification is already guaranteed and they’ll eventually go back looking for a new social media platform again as they are now.

I think I made a mistake by bringing in the concept of power tripping mods.

you’re right to: a huge majority of the lemmyverse’s current userbase has self sorted themselves into a few instances that makes power tripping mods a real problem.

if they had embraced the lemmyverse in it’s original tankie spirit this would not be is a problem at all because the fediverse is designed to keep the discourse going despite any block/ban/defederation; taking those actions only serves to remove yourself from the main group chat that everyone else can see. a power tripping mod has no power when you can easily side step them to continue participating in the discourse.

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in the fediverse; blocklists only serves to remove you from the group chat that everyone else can see.

i’ve always wondered what makes a wrap different than a burrito.

the most common response i get is that they have different contents; but that reeks of privilege to me because chicanos poor enough literally grow up with pasta burritos; salad burritos; pb&j burritos; etc because it’s so much cheaper than bread.

this is why trump has a real chance of winning and i wish liberals would stop downplaying the effects of voter suppression like this for the sake of emphasizing voting only.