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Which instances have the most diverse points of view? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by 13esq@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since Trump, I'm finding the Lemmy.world experience to be increasingly akin to an echo chamber and it's quite frankly starting to bore me. (Inb4, I'm a left winger and I don't like Trump, but I'm much more interested in a good spirited debate or novel points of view than I am in Orange man bad Nazi circle jerks)

If I wanted the same repetitive comments to be upvoted and any different opinion at all to be downvoted and even blocked/banned, I'd have just stayed on Reddit.

Are there any instances where different, opposing and novel points of view are celebrated and debated rather than simply derided and downvoted?

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[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Register and account on another instance that passes the litmus test of federation with .ml and hexbear. Block .world on that new account. Don't block all those instances .world told you to blindly hate.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This.

The leftist instances have a good mix of leftists and liberals that are brave enough to do what they're told not to do.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm about to say the same thing differently.

Eliminating .world filters the majority of the propaganda and bad faith users. What remains is leftist because once we pierce through the propaganda and bad faith, we all agree that left is human.

We've three core groups: social democrats, authoritarian socialists & communists, and libertarian socialists & communists. Each focuses on a different part of our timeline. Respectively: the present, the means to overcome the human paradigm, and the ideal solution as we understand it.

Edit: I left out anarchists, whom are often my favorite group. They never get the respect they deserve. I apologize for contributing to that.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's communities I like on .world, so I just ban the most insufferable users and comms.

[–] ReadMoreBooks@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Voyager allows blocking of the instance whole while allowing specific communities.