I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com -2 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Go say something against trans and see how the fediverse reacts most instances will hand out an instant instance ban. That's a pretty mainstream right wing belief but its almost completely censored on the fediverse.

Normal centrist European views huh? I don't think so their are a lot of right ringers Europe who wouldn't be allowed to say what they want here. Perhaps that's what some Americans mean when they say leftist but that's not what most people mean pretty shit straw man imo.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Hate speech has no place here, no matter how comfortable these creeps feel around their fascist politicians and policemen at home.

Hating Jews was "pretty mainstream" in the NSDAP.

Hate speech is hate speech no matter how many bootlicking pieces of shit might agree, and this is not a platform that's friendly to the miserable fuckers who have nothing better to do with their lives than to spread hate and intolerance. They have Twitter and Truth social to spread their shit.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com -2 points 1 week ago (14 children)

And here lies my point. A vast majority of people don't think its hate speech. And a vast majority of people believe free speech supersedes hate speech.

Please define hate speech.

I've seen many people defending violence against Jews in the name of Palestine right here on lemmy so I'd say hating Jews is pretty mainstream in the fediverse right now.

I believe the right to free speech grants you the right to express hatred as long as ur not calling for violence u should have the right to say whatever the fuck you want.

That's a pretty mainstream belief for a lot a people who have been completely ostracised and discriminated against by the fediverse as a whole.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Muntedcrocodile: "I believe in the right to spread hatred as long as it's not calling for violence."

Lemmy: "Um, okay. Let's give that a try. We hate hateful right wing views, and call people with those views total assholes."

muntedcrocodile: "Wait, not like that! You should tolerate us so there's a diversity of views!"

Ironic.

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com -1 points 1 week ago

Nice straw man.

U see I also believe in equality (of opportunity) if you have the right to spread hate against right wing views then said right wingers should have said right to spread hate against your views.

I'm tolerant of your hate speech and combat it with ration argument. Your not tolerant of my speech and combat it with deletions, bans, and personal attacks. We are not the same.

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