My point is really the commenter’s seeming inability to find nuance. Or maybe more charitably, disinterest in finding nuance.

There’s this childish kneejerk response, tuned to sound aligned with “the right side of history”, that’s really just people being allergic to information and ideas too different from their own. They go “ooo scary/bad! I heard about those tankies!” and just panic ban.

I’ve seen the same flavor of it where people who happen to have signed up to .ml, knowing nothing about the landscape and just to figure all this federated stuff out, get berated for ideas they don’t share and never stated. Based on where their account is.

It’s all just very shallow and much more like team sports than anything else. Virtue signalling. Which I guess shouldn’t be too surprising.

It can be willful ignorance to do so, it isn’t always. Blocks are very useful.

Real careful thinker huh.

“I discovered a community of people disagree with me about something I think I understand quite well. It’s the same community that originated Lemmy, it’s a community of people who actually come from and live in different parts of the world, and it’s the same community many folks just sign up to incidentally when they first check out federated stuff, meaning nothing by it. Better just block the entire thing, lol, I sure know what I’m doin!”

You really sound like a jackass lmao

“Hey everyone, look at my juvenile attempts at statistics! Look how obviously bad some people seem when I do a shit job at it while ALSO failing to apply any context of the domain being studied to my thoughts, let alone to my ‘calculations’ and conclusions!”

This is a terrible metric from the fucking jump. And you did a shit job of it from there. Fuck you, truly.

[Edit: love how ya closed with “so who’s weirder guyz, the marxists, the furries, or the db0s?!” Just painfully obvious how you started the whole shebang, you hate all of the groups lol, because you’re a dumb asshole and not very happy about being one. Just remember, the option is always yours to simply shut the fuck up and read, then think, instead.]

Ridiculous on its face to say “weird why db0” in light of exactly what you said, fully fabricated images shared to attack the wider perception of the instance.

Along with the rest of the “I’m doing statistics! With crayons” nonsense.

Fuck this post.