• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    21 hours ago

    no time like the present to create it on lemmy and recruit in DM’s :)

    best yet, you could DM the historians with the best mannerisms.

    Once you get a number of reasonable posts on this side, you could ask people on their site for assistance on questions from here :) lowkey advertising until they shut you down over there.

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      14 hours ago

      So. Early, early on I did reach out to a couple of them.

      Unfortunately, there are some frankly terrible communities on Lemmy who engage in some pretty awful hatred and historical denialism, and they weren’t interested in moving to a community that wouldn’t dissociate with that, much less one that is actively run by the same people.

      And like, we can repeat to the end of time that Lemmy is a distributed community and each instance’s choices don’t reflect on others. But the reality is that people do look at the largest instances not shutting that crap out, and it does color their perceptions.

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        20 minutes ago

        Yeah, early on, conservatives beat up Wil Wheaton and made him despise the platform, too.