They wrote this essay only because a one poweruser left, lol
It was a rather sombering thread, that echoed quite a bit of what I’ve been saying about .ml, the Triad, general toxicity of their Tankie “ideology” for months now.
I know @ptz@dubvee.org was speaking of general toxicity, but the Triad is a huge chunk of it, the culture they create…festers it. They comprise the bulk of the hostility, I’ve personally seen it over and over and over again. All the “Just go back to Reddit” or “just another lib Redditor refugee” comments for someone that dared to have nuance.
Hell, I saw hex users fucking cheering .ee’s shutdown because it was some sort of psyop/CIA/fed/lib/“They didn’t perfectly agree with me” instance. They call feddit.org a “Nazi Zionist” instance for the crime…of not wanting to be arrested and complying with German law…
I haven’t looked to see if they’ve started any “celebratory” posts about Dubvee yet and I also don’t really want to, if they’re there, I already know what they’re going to say in it -_-
Unfortunately, I fear the problem was far worse than I thought.
Ptz speculated that the toxicity has “metastasized”. And you know what? He might be right, it seemed to be a lot better off 2 years ago, now…now I feel we might be losing the battle against the toxicity and I don’t think PieFed will be enough. Complacency has set in
My hope was that with enough instances defederating from .ml and the rest of the Triad, it would be a tad easier to take down toxic Tankies, trolls and their alts. But, few wanted to burn the bridge with the toxic main devs’ instance and now it might be too late. (Cheers to @Illecors@lemmy.cafe and the lemmy.cafe instance, one of the few of note to actually defederate from the entire triad!)
Like ptz said and I fully agree with, this place started with promise 2 years ago, but it appears to be ultimately morphing into 4chan (or like I’ve been saying, Voat 2.0) after all
Oh well, I’ve got some thick ass skin so I’ll probably be here till the end, till the last sane instance shuts down.
I’ll see you there @dessalines@lemmy.ml
/Sadmemerant
Heck, maybe I’ll do a hail Mary and start an instance on a custom fork of lemmy with “normie proof” onboarding while dumping a few hundred in ADs (Maybe even on Reddit itself, HA!). I’ll flood this place with “normies” LMAO
imagine if you had to write a long essay about how this is the end of hexbear everytime a poweruser left
Why are they calling it the Threadiverse???
complete shot in the dark here;
Fediverse, like :fedposting: sounds scary
I assume because threads has the highest visibility of the instances
I though we all agreed to disavow threads? Smh you can’t even expect the bare minimum…
We did, but the liberals have no problem with facebook shitting up the place.
Everyone but world, who one of their admins set up the integration with threads
And just like the feedback on the mbfc bot they got, did not take it well when it was hated by the users of lw
They call it the threadiverse because interactions happen in comment threads on posts (link aggregators/forums), as opposed to each post being standalone like in microblogging platforms like Mastodon or Misskey.
Fediverse = all activity pub based platforms (Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. )
Threadiverse = Reddit-like activity pub based platforms specifically (Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, etc)
The name came before Threads was a thing, I think, so just a bad coincidence.