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Interesting to hear your perspective, because although I've never checked it out myself, the overall perception of them around here is very not good
Do you know why? This piece is the shortest of many essays they've got about what they're trying to achieve and why. The basic gist is that they want to make a kind, supportive online community as a refuge for marginalized people. It's an anti-dunking community, so definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm curious what about them might cause a negative view.
Edit: I really appreciate all the information and perspective ❤️ thanks, everyone
They pre-emptively defederated from Hexbear (more than a year before we even had the ability to federate) making up the excuse that hatespeech(lmao yeah ok suuuure) was their reason for doing so. The reality is that they have been anti-communists from the start, they are an explicitly neoliberal project with the intent of grooming their users into neoliberalism, but this goal must remain secret so they couldn't just say "we defederated from hexbear because they're socialists", hence the lies.
As you can probably imagine, this creates a lot of animosity here.
Anti-dunking inherently means pro-dogwhistle
Most of us became aware of them when they made an announcement in the midst of the Reddit exodus red scare accusing us of bigotry and hate speech, so our first broad impression was that they are (administrated by) fucking morons who are perfectly comfortable lying about other communities.
Since I don't have any personal experience, I'm not sure, but maybe someone else will chime in. Certainly their reputation is for being aggressively liberal in the worst ways
Their instance sucks. They're just libs with a massive civility fetish. The only credit I'll give them is they at least aren't trying to recreate Reddit without spez like the rest of the Ledditor instances. It actually would make sense for a civility fetish instance that doesn't actually want to recreate Reddit to have second thoughts about staying on a shitty Reddit clone.