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Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion. (self.unpopularopinion)

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

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I seriously cannot have any degree of nuanced conversation here.

Like I get it, we all know capitalism is bad, but it feels like every time I or anyone go towards discussing the steps that need to be taken to address current looming problems in the short term, someone has to jump in and shut it down with "capitalism bad >:[ " and tear down any idea presented because its not complete and total destruction of the current economic model.

The result just feels like an echo chamber where no actual solutions get presented other than someone posting whole ass dissertations on their 33-step (where 30/33 steps are about as vague as "we'll just handle it") plan to fully convert the world to an anarchist commune.

Edit: I still vastly prefer Lemmy and the fediverse and a whole, my complaint here is that many of you are TOO INTENSE. You blow up small scale discussion.

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

Lemmygrad certainly won’t downvote me

I'm not worried about them downvoting people. I'm worried about them upvoting whatever fits their agenda to the top of the front page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Then they will also implicitly upvote the takedown comment that debunks it to smithereens, that they can't see because they've long since banned everyone posting such comments.

If you tally votes by stance that might be an issue, but if you tally them by quality or impact the situation looks quite different. You'll see, nay actually you do see (or at least I have), a +80-50 comment on the top, directly followed by a +50-0 one debunking it. Noone is going to take the first one seriously with that ratio. Even not being aware of lemmygrad, people would just assume that the first comment's original upvotes were because the takedown hadn't been written yet. Bonus: The first comment came from lemmygrad and its OP can't even see the rebuttal and follow up with further bullshit, saving everyone lots of time.