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Lemmy is a bigger echo chamber than reddit (self.unpopularopinion)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by willis936 to c/unpopularopinion

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I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I'll be switching back.

Edit: you'll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.

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

So you're not a lefty. Lemmy says: fuck the fuck off you fucking fuck we fucking hate you. Source: left but not left enough.

[–] dustyData 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This depends heavily on the instance. I have consistently received this attitude with users of a couple of specific instances. I now just ignore or instantly block those instance users whenever I see them.

That said. You come to a platform inspired from, designed on, and developed by left progressive ideals. You complain about the left. I can picture the pikachu face you're making right now.

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

I get that. It's just amusing that people think open source means free or there is a place where you won't be silenced for dissent. We're human and we will self select for positive feedback. Lemmy is no less a bubble than reddit or xtwitter.

[–] TORFdot0 3 points 9 months ago

Lemmy isn’t an echo chamber. It can’t be because it doesn’t have an algorithmic feed so it’s not artificially boosting viewpoints based on engagement. There is simply more people who are more left-leaning than Reddit/twitter. The political posts aren’t self-reinforcing just really prevalent

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

Lemmy most certainly is less of an echo-chamer. There's often good discussions and less toxic responses and blanket downvoting (not that it doesn't happen).

Typically, heavily downvoted users are trolls, hateful comments, or categorically false claims/propoganda (which is why conservatives don't like it). But there is still toxic bandwagon voting that suppresses dissenting opinions.

But to claim it's on the same level as reddit is laughable. You can claim that lemmy is a "leftist" echo-chamer, but the important distinction is that the "right" do not hold themselves or their news sources to any standard or basis is reality.

Lemmy may be more leftist, but that doesn't mean it's an echo-chamer in the way reddit/conservative forums/subreddits are echo-chamers. And it sure as hell doesn't mean the news/discussion is biased/false in the way it is among conservatives.

Not to mention, there are stark differences in the way extremism manifests and the propensity for violence between the right and left.

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

Look, your definition of toxic troll and propaganda is going to fall into a different window because you (and I) are leftist. Failure to recognise your own bias is just frustrating. I can't be bothered most of the time. Lemmy is a massive echo chamber for the left, just ask anyone who says Israel is allowed to exist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm not discounting my bias; I'm acknowledging the bias exists, but that it's far more aligned with reality and objectivity than the mainstream right, which complain about the leftist bias of lemmy.

And your Isreal example is totally out of touch. The vast majority of discussion on lemmy condemns both the terrorism of Hamas as well as the genocide being committed by Isreal.