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It’s just as much a left-wing echo chamber as Truth Social is a right-wing one - and that’s a problem in both cases. Some might say it’s fine because we’re on the right side of history and they’re not, or something along those lines - but the people on Truth Social think the exact same thing. No one’s views ever change that way.
Very much so. And it seems to be getting even worse lately. I mostly post socialist and third party stuff, but if I dare say I don't like a democrat or something, I get automatic "YOU'RE ACTUALLY A TRUMPER!! MAGA-NAZI!!!"
Bans and hateful DM's. All because I don't like the 2-party system. lol
The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances. Repeatedly, they would throw tantrums and create loads of dupe accounts to spam shit when people downvoted their shitty views or their accounts got banned. If they were capable of behaving with civility and following the rules, they'd still be here.
No idea how active that corner of the Lemmyverse is these days, but they have repeatedly chosen to behave in a way that leaves instance administrators with little choice other than defederation.
I don't think it's just that. I have seen plenty of people say that no conservative content should be allowed on Lemmy. At all.
Go post a conservative article in c/politics and see what happens. Some of the DM's you'll get are actually reportable to the FBI. The anti-conservative streak here is extreme. I've reported some of the DM's I get to the police, and I'm not even conservative, but just because I advocate 3-party voting. People on here can be insane.
I've seen plenty of pitchforks go after posters. Even when it's a neutral article that talks about something positive a conservative politician did or said.
I don't think there is such a thing as a left wing echo chamber. We bicker incessantly. The other day I was making a joke at the expense of the car-brain mentality and someone came at me for ableism.
I'm not mad at them, it's just illustrative of my point. We don't take shit from each other, and we take each other to task over jokes. The right will, meanwhile, forgive literal pedophilia, rape, and murder of each other. I'm sure as hell not saying we should, but we will never create an echo chamber as good as they do because of that.
I think the main problem is that there isn't much besides politics and memes. Most communities that aren't politics seem to devolve into meme communities.
I feel like that's an issue that's exacerbated by the predominance of image posts over text posts, and text post only communities.
It's probably an issue with vote-based discussions full stop. Post something funny and it'll get votes because of the laughs; post something everyone in your echo-chamber agrees with and it'll get votes because it's right-on.
Maybe I just want to go back to forums.
Forums still exist, but I hard agree with you. I was so excited when the lemmy devs were considering hiding votes counts from the frontend by default. Unfortunately (imo) it got shot down by the community pretty quickly.
I think "likes" as a socials concept are part of a dark engagement pattern we've willfully brought over from the mainstream, and we won't be able to be much better than them until we're rid of it.
Votes and vote manipulation are destroying Lemmy.
Yeah, I am on... two forums. I think the issue is that it's not where the people are any more.
I actually think the problem with voting is that the way it's used to promote threads instead of doing it on a time basis. It's part of a way of engaging with a site which punishes long-running conversations.
What do you mean on a time basis?
Agree that it's hard to find really long running conversions (like what you see on forums), unless you happen to be going back and forth with one other person (notifications pull you back in).
There is also a dearth of cannibalistic viewpoints here. And Zoroastrians are woefully underrepresented.
I don't come here to change my views (though it happens from time to time), and neither do they. I'm not ignorant of their thoughts; I'm inundated with them every day. I don't need to interact with assholes here. I don't want to come here and watch people scream back and forth at each other, and I definitely am not interested in participating—there is a reason I've left other social media.
Zoroastrians for the win. I never thought I'd see that word mentioned on here!
Saw a documentary on them ages ago and they've always stuck with me for some reason.
The problem is the right no longer argue their points in good faith.
I say it's fine because if there's one thing I've learned repeatedly since about 2017, it's that the single most effective thing I can do to reduce toxicity in my life is to reduce my interactions with conservative family members, coworkers, 'friends', and social media accounts.
It's remarkably effective. I interact with no conservative or known trump voter more than work or family obligations require. Haven't for years. Best mental health step I've taken in my adult life.
Not my fault they have all forgotten that "loudest asshole in the room" isn't a personality.
I'd much, much rather be in an echo chamber where BS is questioned and reality is not ignored than a conservative hellscape where basic facts of reality are ignored, like, "tons of CO2 in the atmosphere is totally fine, actually" or, "trans people are corrupting sports!".
Yea... fuck those at best extremely stupid people and at worst, vitriolic piles of trash.
would you like to tell me which political side is currently putting people in concentration camps and starting a war