We’ll have to push back with pointing to the decentralized nature of the fediverse, and that there’s gonna be crazies on some instances. I always use email as an analogy when explaining Lemmy, maybe we could continue that and argue you wouldn’t blame all of email infrastructure if an extremist had a gmail or Hotmail or whatever.

Actually now that I read that, it just might be more confusing. But there’s gotta be a counter angle to argue to get ahead of people thinking “Lemmy=bad”

Agreed

Hello. Wow this is a deep thread. I didn’t read all of it but I’m impressed by the enthusiasm and persistence in this thread.

Also man there aren’t too many places left on the internet you can actually have a discussion and talk back & forth and know that there’s actual person on the other end.

Anyways, to you, reading this, fellow Lemmy-goer, thanks for getting this far in my rambling