• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve seen almost no difference in attitudes about gender and sexual insecurity in Lemmy as Reddit broadly, people here will scream about socialism and the environment, but the moment someone says “Men have silly habits about this thing” suddenly the leering face of Andrew Tate appears like an apparition in your monitor and the screen turns red and everyone suddenly has a story about how girls are mean.

    Also, a lot of the bots and astroturfers who are literally paid to amplify and distort arguments actually are allowed to run with far more freedom on these backwater, leftist sites because people here think it’s a “sheltered” and isolated community, and the traffic here is slower so moderation is less active.

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      2 days ago

      I agree with your entire post, but especially the second paragraph.
      Every time stupid shit like this begins to pop up more frequently, there’s something like an election or an Epstein ruling that is about to show up.