In the past week I’ve been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I’d be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.
On both occasions though I was flamed for mentioning human rights issues that are established facts and have been known for many, many years. I was critical of the actions/laws of their governments and not the people, their race, religion, general political ideology or nationality.
On both occasions I was bombarded by long posts that parroted propaganda, and in the case of one country I was told (on multiple occasions) that I was ignorant, racist and even fascist for mentioning the issues I did. I’m not complaining about how I was treated, but as a reminder, I was discussing internationally-recognised human rights concerns that can be verified and based in fact.
I could just be paranoid but I’m fairly convinced the responses weren’t from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
death threats?!?!
sheesh, they really are unhinged. thank goodness I blocked them almost immediately upon joining since I heard about them, but this is something we need to improve on imo, perhaps a sort of warning?
doubt it will happen though, since Lemmy devs are the instance admins, but maybe on some neutral instance chooser site or the other? (may already exist and I don’t know about it)
Or maybe they’re lying to you
I’ve gotten death threats and stalkers too.Some extremist users in the fediverse are very unhinged and have no life.
yes an yes, that is very much the issue. .ml is not going to label themselves ad violent and delusional, they think the rest of us are that, because they project.
sigh very typical…
if this problem gets too out of hand, my mind went to defederation. perhaps too extreme? there has to be a reason the .world admins didn’t do it yet. idk if .social defed from ml, but perhaps reason…?
they don’t because the mods want users to make up their own minds. and that’s fine.
I don’t want admins/mods making my choices for me, I want to make them myself.