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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Guy is hundred percent right. Lemmy is a echo chamber for a certain demographic as vast majority of users are in it.

We either have tech, or politics. Literally every topic ends up in either. We also don't have the differing opinions aspect as just about every debater talks like they're just the different shade of the same color.

Even spicy news that would make any other site a warzone of opinions just echo chambered here. Literally everyone agrees on one conclusion and random two comments that disagree with that having at least -15 points.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

To name a few (note, I am only refering to the loud obnoxious minority, not the majority who are mostly cool)

  • Linux: too over the top fanboying a times, and the distro war can be absurd here; this coming from me, a full-time Linux user
  • Atheism: yes, I know religion is stupid; but you know what else is stupid, trying to force feed your opinion; I mean, we can't even joke about church wifi name here
  • Vegan: no, bashing meat eaters won't make them stop eating them, they'll just hate you more
  • American Politic: no, not everything is about your shit, that orange business man/ex-president in an orange suit doesn't affect the rest of the world
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

There are so many "Well Acshually" people here. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

The only times I've seen toxicity like this is ironically whenever there is a big wave of reddit user influx, things usually settle down for a while as they adapt to the cultures here (or get banned), it's not as much of an Eternal September as much as it is a Irregularly Scheduled September.

Most of the active comms here are smaller but better quality than their subreddit equivalent. You even get good discussions here on memes sometimes. (Politics and News here still could be better, though.)

For someone who's been very unhappy with the state of social media for quite a while, Lemmy is a breath of fresh air, even though there are definitely growing pains.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

This feels like it was written by someone who has never been on Lemmy because that has not been my experience at all.

Reddit is fucking full of bots astroturfing right wing political nonsense and we’re not getting that on Lemmy because those instances are often defederated.

Or, you know, he’s one of those guys who signed up for world when he should have gone to exploding heads.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Say we're going to leave Reddit if the API changes go through

Actually leave Reddit

Refuse to elaborate

Get called toxic by the people who chose to stay