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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is lemmy.world one that illegitimately blocks many communities?

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

I think they were mostly reasonable, with some complaints like how they banned piracy communities for a while and also banned/removed a community about magic mushrooms.

I disagreed with their federating with Threads, so I hopped over onto feddit.de because they are defederated from Threads and tankie instances. That's the beauty of the fediverse tho.

But you can view the de/federated instances lists for every instance and see if you agree with it. Different apps may have different routes/capability, so I'd recommend opening it in a browser and scrolling to the bottom of the page to find the link: "instances"

To make it easier for you, here's the instances list for lemmy.world.

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

that's the same list i just replied 7 minutes ago lol

most of these are blocked for incredible NSFW or MAGA. There are extremely few I don't understand, such as kbin.cafe and some foreign-language instances that seem okay.

I wish there was an anchor that just lets you skip to the bottom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, yeah I had the comments of this post open for longer than 6 minutes, so your comment wasn't visible to me.