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Anyone Else Noticing Increasingly Conservative Commentary from Outside Instances? (beehaw.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by millie@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

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In the past few weeks I feel like I've seen a lot more conservative comments being posted on Beehaw. Where before it seemed like occasionally some dazed right-winger would wander through now and then, it now seems a bit more like they specifically show up to any thread that brushes up against one of their pet issues.

The most recent example I've noticed is around the stuff with the Ladybird devs being weird about being asked to use inclusive pronouns, but it seems like a pattern.

Has anyone else noticed this? Any thoughts on a course of action other than blocking them all individually or reporting particularly grievous examples?

I really would be disappointed to see every single thread here slowly inundated with pettiness and hate.

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[–] auk 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I made !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net for this exact reason. I wouldn't describe the influx of shit opinions as exclusively conservative, but it's definitely an influx, and it definitely requires some type of different reaction than the four unsatisfying horsemen of blocking, defederating, replying to each one until your fingers start to hurt, or seething silently. And every so often having a moderator delete one explicitly racist comment isn't the answer.

The model I am trying to make is that if you're consistently getting downvotes from trusted members of the community, out you go. The theory is that that will make the whole thing less excruciating. You can look more about it at !santabot@slrpnk.net. I don't know if it it going to work. But something must be done.

Edit: Fixed the link. There is no Pleastant Politics.

[–] tektite 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You've got a typo in your community name

!pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net

[–] auk 3 points 4 months ago

Fixed, thank you.

[–] tmpod@lemmy.pt 2 points 4 months ago

Oh that's an interesting tool. I've been thinking of working on something like that, but it seems someone has put in the work already, neat! I will be paying attention at that experimental community, seems promising.