It feels like this is very intense here compared to other social media services/protocols.
Why is that?
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Could just be a consequence of a less ideologically diverse user base to start with.
I’m so upset about (privacy, reddit, corporatism, etc, etc) that I’m prepared to leave my large online social networks for a smaller space on principle is probably a bit of an outlier position to take.
Not that it’s wrong, but it’s probably something we all agree on. Something out there is so fucked up we refuse to be a part of it on principle, even if we don’t fully agree on what that is.
Principle*
Lovely observation of the greatest commonality here, though.
Good call out, corrected.
it’s also an outlier position fueled by belief, and people tend to self-select to be around others who believe as they do, and punish those who don’t.
it’s one thing to be concern about privacy, it’s another to browbeat anyone who doesn’t have a pihole server and selfhosts all their media content as being ‘fools’. i don’t use linux other than at my job, and according to lemmy techies I’m a heretic.
I don’t think you’re a heretic but I do think Linux is the only OS I trust to respect me and my privacy.
Linux doesn’t respect you. It’s a computer operating system.
MS DOS also respected your privacy. And you can use Windows/Mac without the internet.
Lemmings have always been well-known for running in herds.
So…I’m guessing you haven’t installed Linux yet?
If so, try Linux. We’re not a cult or anything.
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O RYL? :]
What distro would you recommend?What do you think should be done about unbelievers?
After all, those who have strayed from the one true path must be dealt with…Ubuntu
And what of the Debian Heretics with their deviant Trixie?
What shall we do with them?
I’m not sure. What does everybody else think?
Mute lemmygrad, hexbear, .ml and maybe blahaj and see if you still feel the same afterwards.
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Oh, nothing, but the complaint is “too much groupthink”, and users on that instance tend to have a lot of solidarity and surface issues and topics that a fair chunk of the lemmy user base probably don’t usually see in their other social feeds.
Groupthink isn’t always negative. Often yes; not always.
You get the oddball standout asshole from them on occasion.
That being said, I don’t think they pop up at a rate that’s abnormal compared to the other big servers. Though their assholes have a specific attitude that you can kinda tell they’re from Blahaj without looking, though I can’t put my finger on what exactly that is.
Then again, assholes from Lemmy.ml also have commonalities, and I assume the same from sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world. Maybe it’s them catering to sexual minorities that makes them stick out, but again it’s really hard to explain what’s different
Though their assholes have a specific attitude that you can kinda tell they’re from Blahaj without looking, though I can’t put my finger on what exactly that is.
Tbh it’s probably the aura of condescending bitchiness, paired with a slightly fruitier and more youthful vocab than most of the threadiverse (except maybe hexbear? Idk, they’re defederated from us)
To my fellow Blåhaj users
No offence intended by the above. After all, I’m clearly talking about myself here. Sorry, but none of y’all are nearly as belligerent and annoying as I am, so—egocentric as I am—I can only surmise these guys are vagueposting about me.
I can only surmise these guys are vagueposting about me.
If it helps, you’re definitely not one of the Blahaj users I’m referring to (not sure about the person I replied to though). The ones I refferred to ended up blocked
Oh wow! If they’re really more insufferable than I am I guess I’ve probably blocked them too, then 😅
Basically filter out the tankies, and this place becomes pleasant. I can’t say you’re wrong.
I do not like defederation. Users can block instances on their own. Admins should only defederate from illegal instances. For other instances, users can block them if they want. They can also unblock them later. I think defederation is not good. That is why I chose .zip. People on Lemmy should worry about this. The Fediverse is about connecting all instances. But some instances break this connection.
Because it’s an echo chamber. You have communities that are modded by a small group of people who can control narratives through censorship, the community is very hostile to any differing views from their own, and the existing communities are so devoid of internal criticism that they start to purity test each other, which leads to more extreme views and develops a herd mentality.
But unlike social media you can follow different communities or make your own here is an example for “Technology” communities;
- !Technology@lemmy.world (81.4K sub; 17.1K users/mo): Centrist / Center-left
- !Technology@beehaw.org (42.3K sub; 3.07K users/mo): Progressive
- !Technology@lemmy.ml (41.9K sub; 3.03K users/mo): Left-leaning
- !technology@hexbear.net (24.2K sub; 1.53K users/mo): Marxist / Anti-capitalist
- !Technology@lemmy.zip (6.15K sub; 3.41K users/mo): Neutral
- !Technology@midwest.social (2.44K sub; 101 users/mo): Neutral
- !Technology@piefed.social (2.26K sub; 2.15K users/mo): Neutral
- !Technology@lemmygrad.ml (1.37K sub; 273 users/mo): Marxist-Leninist / Far-left
- !Technology@lemmy.today (337 sub; 26 users/mo): Neutral
Is it? I avoid politics and I’ve blocked the tankie instances. If anything, I worry there isn’t enough communalism (there’s a joke here somewhere) to sustain it.
Not exactly sure what you mean by herd mentality though.
That’s what I herd as well.
I’ll tell you exactly why. As soon as I see what everyone else said.
Don’t understand the downvotes you get. I don’t think it’s Lemmy exclusive though. It’s just what the reddit like voting system promotes. Just hiding the score would make it a lot better i think.
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I think it’s moderation. If you have a differing opinion from the mainstream (as in what the moderation team thinks), you’ll get banned from the current community and any other community that mod is moderating. It’s absolutely insane.
That quite obviously leads to a chilling effect where people aren’t willing to discuss anything controversial freely, like their political stance, unless of course it’s the one mods have.
I like piefed and Lemmy, but this is by far the worst place for any political discussion
on reddit i got banned.
on lemmy communities I just got told I’m a troll. or to cite my sources. and if I cite them, then I’m a troll. or told how i’m a stupid bad awful evil person who has zero ‘empathy’ if I say, think housing policy is a complex problem.
It couldn’t possible be there are legit points of view and opinions that are different than the predominant one…
That has not been my experience. There are a number of times I’ve had fundamental differences with the zeitgeist and I’ve been largely down voted before, but never banned. I don’t think I’ve ever even had a comment removed, and some of them have been pretty borderline.
Maybe it’s due to other issues besides your opinion? Idk. Hope you find communities that fit you.
No, you fight like a cow.
Look! A three-headed monkey!
So… everyone here is upvoting cat pics?
Because we are human
Depends on your instance.
