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Sure, there are always outliers and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just the overall impression I have.

(I wasn't sure if [email protected] or this community would fit better for this kind of question, but I assume it fits here.)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Weakness.

Limited range of political views breeds echo chamber. In my experience, you can't really have meaningful discussion inside an echo chamber. Disagreement, compromise, nuance doesn't exists inside an echo chamber. Just that same idea repeated over and over again.

Gonna be honest, you can't have meaningful and nuanced discussion here. Everything is black and white. Capitalism? It's the worst thing on earth. Religious people? Those people are idiots. Don't YOU dare use Windows, use Linux instead. ALL cops are bad, no exception.

This kind of things makes me actually scared of recommending people to Lemmy. I'm sure most people are casual people who doesn't have extreme views on anything. Just some people who wants to shut their brain off and scroll. I feel like the echo chamber I mentioned will put most people off.


Going tangent a bit--In general fediverse is not diverse.

When you scroll, you realize most of the post comes from the same kind of political ideas, same country (USA), same beliefs, etc.

You can't spell fediverse without spelling diverse, yet I feel like fediverse is anything but diverse.

This needs to change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Honestly I'm kinda one of those on linux, but not in a "it's morally imperative that you do" sort of way, in a "it's a good idea to eat fruits and vegetables" or "you should leave your abusive partner" sort of way. It's just better. I'm not going to call anyone a Nazi for using windows, but also if someone is complaining about windows doing windows things, often the solution is "linux doesn't do that."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Religious people? Those people are idiots.

Okay for what it's worth as a Muslim I've found Lemmings to be a lot more civil about the religion thing than redditors. At least I feel that people here are less likely to think being atheist makes them smart.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Oh hey, finally a fellow Muslim

Okay for what it’s worth as a Muslim I’ve found Lemmings to be a lot more civil about the religion thing than redditors

Unfortunately my experience here is different :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This needs to change.

Half the people on here working to ensure that it never changes.

They want that echo chambers as if their life depends on maintaining a narrative.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

that's disappointing really