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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I agree for the most part. Most of the top posts on here are left-wing political posts, where often times center-left views get downvoted to oblivion. Don't even get me started on Hexbear, etc.

I wish we had more people making posts about hobbies and such. c/Linux and a few others are rich in content, but so many others (motorcycles, Factorio, etc.) have very little activity. The hobby subs were my favorite Reddit subs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I just started a thread on [email protected] about communities that people contribute to, feel free to share your own there

[–] DeadHorseX 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Unnfortunately Lemmy, regardless of the server, is a complete echo-chamber of left-wing politics, at least in my experience.