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[–] TheFonz 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I feel like it's too late for Lemmy. The echo chamber is already pretty strong. I hope I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the flagship instance is lemmy.ml

the software is made by tankies.

did you think this place was politically neutral? the whole fediverse is a fuck you to the status quo.

[–] TheFonz 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

To be honest, I have nothing against socialists. I consider myself a soc Dem. I have many friends that are socialists. My issue is with how shallow and superficial the conversation is. Of your whole world thesis starts and ends with class warfare, there simply isn't much to discuss. There are no prescriptions- just empty rhetoric. At the end of the say it's horseshoe anti-establishment.

[–] LufyCZ 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying to break through the echo chamber whenever I come across it, but it's a thankless endeavor, and I'm pretty close to giving up.

[–] TheFonz 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's dozens of us haha. I think more people are tired of the empty rhetoric because it's not getting the same traction it used to. My suspicion is it's like the same three people posting the same comment everywhere.

[–] LufyCZ -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hand in hand with bots, possibly. I really want lemmy to succeed though, only thing driving me forward. Ah well, people haven't used their brains in the past, no reason to expect they will in the future...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

are these bots in the room with you, now?

[–] LufyCZ -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm afraid they are, that's why I wrote that. What's your point?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] LufyCZ -4 points 10 months ago

Do you have any proof that there are none on Lemmy? Reddit was full of them, no reason to think Lemmy isn't.

I'm also not saying there definitely are bots here, just that it's a very real option.

Pick better battles mate.