Thank you, I’ll consider it!

I could do that, and I may most likely will. I would be more enthusiastic about it however if I had actually personally encountered the issues as criticized.

The users I interact with are normal people, the political differences I encounter are usually about the sensibility or implementation of certain policies, not about whether a genocide is happening in Gaza (which I find is undisputed, just to make my position clear).

What I HAVE seen (in real life) is people being unsure about whether (or how) to speak out against the Israeli war machine because they are afraid of being branded racists, but that’s a German problem due to our history and people conflating anti-zionism with antisemitism, not one specific to the instance.

We had a fantastic time, thanks. It was small but it was good to see the neighborhood come together against the fascists.

This just makes me sad. So I have to decide now - enjoy the fantastic comms on db0 or to have access to the biggest community of my region and language but not both?

I just wanted a nice, enjoyable thing to do and engage with after reddit, practice my French, have a laugh about some innocent memes, and have some interesting interactions with like-minded people, but now I’m marked as a Nazi and Zionist just because of the instance I chose to create an account on?

It honestly hurts to read all that vitriol. To be thrown into the same pot as people I despise the most. I just came back from a protest against the AfD a few weeks ago, for heaven’s sake, and now I’m considered a Nazi myself.

Maybe I need to disengage from Lemmy, too.