My issue is with the authoritarian governments and their tightly held control over their media. Recently I’ve felt that western news sources have also been very biased and I can’t take anything coming from them completely straight. I’ve even switched sources from legacy media outlets to individual reporters and small boutique media outlets. (YouTubers) They have less ties with the establishment and while they are still biased, they have far more of an objective overview of the situations at hand.

This is different from China and Russia because they control a lot of their social media as well.The great fire wall being infamous. Also the language barrier definitely makes it more difficult to find people organically.

I am also less likely to believe stuff I hear from a country like russia which heavily suppresses freedom of speech and jails protestors as compared to France which doesn’t do the same (or at least to that level).

Plus Putin and xi ping openly flaunt being dictators. There’s too much smoke to be oblivious to something like this.

Also if you believe these men really care about genocide of their people in any terms other than how it affects their status and power, then you are quite mistaken. Because I can say this with a straight face, that no democratically elected leader/politician cares about such issues without worrying about the same, much less so authoritarian dictators.

I do trust some news coming from China, but for russia it’s just too difficult to give them any credence given my own experience with news outlets that are just government mouthpieces.

Yet, it’s not a complete blackout state like North korea. Telegram has a lot of credible sources or so I’ve heard. They don’t shy away from Russian losses for eg.

Also my issue is with the authoritarian governments and their tightly held control over their media. Recently I’ve felt that western news sources have also very biased and I can’t take anything coming from that completely straight. I’ve even switched sources from legacy media outlets to individual reporters and small boutique media outlets. (YouTubers) They have less ties with the establishment and while they are still biased, they have far more of an objective overview of the situations at hand.

This is different from China and Russia because they control a lot of their social media as well.The great fire wall being infamous. Also the language barrier definitely makes it more difficult to find people organically.

So no, it isn’t about being liberal (which I am not).

For me it is personally what keeps me still on reddit.

I love lemmy/piefed for the awesome people, but really feel the lack of niche content.

I want to start my own communities on lemmy, but it is just so hard to keep it going. I don’t have the energy for that. Living life is difficult as it is already. And I don’t want to see my community die.

Also Reddit bans you from upvoting and participating, but you still get personalized ads even after you get banned. LOL

Askhistorians is objectively the only sane history subreddit.

The rest are filled with colonial apologists, genocide deniers and nationalists.

I dunno that dude.

My problem is not with “evil asian countries”

Tankies love the russian and Chinese governments and take everything they say at face value. (.ml instance owner is pro-russia iirc). They are not socialist or communist, but authoritarians. Support for them is what irks me, not the socialist ideals.

Lol tankies will take everything from Putin and xi and eat it up like it is the eternal truth.

If you can’t admit that, then you are not better than the consumers of said “western state propoganda”. At least they get to think for themselves.

.zip is good all rounder. I second.

Might be general tribal attitude.

I was banned from reddit for calling out colonial apologia and saying fuck you nazi. They literally banned all my accounts without review. I wasn’t even trying to circumvent the ban with the others.

I think people leave because of the lack of niche communities.

Reddit niche communities are like crack. None of the fandom communities are active here.

Does piefed have good moderation tools?

Have you been to any of the history subreddits or the incel ones or the right wing ones? Or just r/all?

Lol. Reddit is super hateful right now.

One reason I like lemmy is because people are a lot more friendly here.