@Liberonscien @trinsec @freemo @cy@mstdn.io
I can add a third reason: **Markdown support!!**
@Liberonscien
Me as well
@freemo , I’m glad that we’re getting new people. I’m looking forward to making new friends.
Whoa, the European Union is joining the Fediverse!
https://social.network.europa.eu/about
@cee
I have no problem with communists as people. I would have a problem if someone forced communism on me and stole all my hard earned assets however.
@cy@mstdn.io
@Amikke Took a minute to process the backlogged stuff while it was offline. It should be much smoother now.
@Hyolobrika@mstdn.io
I disagree, while left and right definitions may not be particularly rigid it is an absolute scale and not a relative one, there is a 0.
@cy@mstdn.io @cee
#QOTO is now back up and migrated to bigger servers. There shouldnt be any more issues moving forward.
@cy@mstdn.io
Honestly what i suspect might be the case is that you are perhaps on the more extreme end of left and thus view moderate left people as being on the right erroneously. Take the meme you linked, it cleary criticizes the racism of the extreme left and the extreme right promoting a neutral position instead. But because you disagree with the rampant racism illustrated on the left, and instead view it as antiracism (as id expect from the more devout left wingers) you fail to see an explicitly centrist view as centrist and instead see moderates as the right. Its a very common mindset honestly.
@cy@mstdn.io Where and when did I belittle the pronounds, lets be specific if you are accusing me (how else could I learn from it let alone defend?)
Capitalism, yes, I promote it. I also have mentioned many times that all of europe is capitalist and have also said many times **pure** capitalism doesnt work much like **pure** communism doesnt work. But there is no doubt that I much prefer capitalism over communism, that doesnt make me a right winger, or a left winger however.
I also have **never** said the extreme right wingers are **justified**. I may have at times pointed out the cycle of cause and effect where the actions of the left drives the right to be more extreme **and** the actions of the right drive the left to their extremism as well.
Overall I lean left, not right and have covered why many times. If the best you have to go on is the posting of that meme (which does not embody the points you say in the least and criticizes both extremes) then yea, I'd stick with bonkers. But thats an inflamatory phrasing so id rather argue the points.
@freeschool Our servers are acrooss multiple countries but I dont think the main server (mastodon fork) is in the USA, I thought it was Europe. I might be misremembering and will double check that. I do prefer servers in Europe.
@cy@mstdn.io
While some of your points are valid (I do support fairly liberral gun access and such) more than half of these points are bonkers inaccurate. I have never belittled someone changing pronouns from he to she (or even they). I have also never claimed anti-racism was racism. Do I criticize liberals though, hell yea, and conservatives too.
@cy@mstdn.io You said it. Qoto isn't rightwing. And you're totally free to argue with @freemo himself. I've done my fair share of arguing with him as well. We've butted heads and we've agreed on things. So long as it's civil, everybody is entitled to their own opinion, right?
@cy@mstdn.io @freemo That said, if you _do_ see anything horrible coming out of qoto, please feel free to report it. Last I checked hate speech still isn't tolerated here.
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