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Homie I have been all over the internet and Lemmy has gotta be the worst lefty bubble/echo chamber I have ever seen.
Even in their own sub conservatives get downvoted into oblivion. If that's not indictive of a heavy bias left I don't know what is.
Im a left leaning moderate and I get downvoted constantly because I refuse to parrot the hivemind nonsense 24/7.
When I first got here I sorted everything by most commented and there was a thread someone made where they were asking if it was a good thing that the site was a massive lefty echo chamber. He got downvoted and anyone in the comments that had even a remotely moderate take was also downvoted.
I'm glad people like you still exist. I fear that the majority of the left just plugs their ears and starts screaming "LALALALA" the moment anyone challenges their view points even slightly. It's extremely concerning behavior.
Please point to the down voted "moderate" comments.
So are mass deportations, Nazis performing Nazi salutes at presidential inaugurations, and Congressmen floating 3 term amendments to the Constitution.
I'd probably be a lot more open to other points of view if they weren't presented by fascists and fascist enablers (also fascists).
This sentence is the reason you get downvoted, but it's not the reason you think.
What's the reason you think I think it is and what's the real reason?
You think it's because you "Do not parrot the hive mind 24/7"
The real reason is because you ironically say things like "hivemind".
Whatever you wanna call it. Hivemind, same think, group think, bubble, echo chamber and so on.
Whatever term won't rub y'all the wrong way applies to most of the people on this site.
It's their exact way of thinking or it's "go away".
Requiring Ideological Purity for anyone to join your "side" is not a good thing.
That applies to anyone who uses terms like:
It's a way for them to dismiss those that disagree with them by plugging their ears going "HIVEMINDHIVEMINDHIVEMINDHIVEMIND!"
If I am disagreeing with someone I am disagreeing with the individual and the arguments they are making. How many people agree or disagree with them is irreverent to the validity of the statements they are making. (See: Appeal to Popularity)
It's intellectually lazy and serves no purpose other than giving an excuse to not mentally engage with other points of view. At which point why are you bothering to engage at all?
If I think a community is an echo chamber I'm not going to go in there to say "you guys are all in an echo chamber!" And expect that to go over well. I'm not going to waste my time going on Truth Social trying to find the handful of reasonable people in that community, I'll just go somewhere else.
More concerning than the guys doing nazi salutes and calling trans people groomers?
Forgive me if I like having one social media where most users are sane
Most of the users on this website are anything but sane. The grand majority are so disconnected from reality I actually thought it was a joke at first.
I've run into maybe 10 users that aren't completely out of their mind.
Seriously, why are you here at all then? Even 4chan is better than "10 users that aren’t completely out of their mind".
Mostly because 4chan is all just extremists. I would prefer to occasionally talk to some sane people vs zero sane people.
Grim worldview/situation, tbh.
I mean the internet invites extremism it seems. I blame the "anonymity" that many feel they can do or say whatever they want. I'm guilty of this at times as well I will say insulting things online that I would never say to someone in person. I try not to do it, but I'm not great about catching myself in the moment.
I have always tried to carry myself in such a manner that if my Internet accounts all somehow got hacked and shown to my parents they wouldnt really be surprised by anything I said.
I feel like most people would be mortified if their family saw their chat logs.
Sounds like you like making up numbers and attaching them to things to support your points.
I..... What? I've been on this app for 2 weeks and I have only run into a small handful of sane level headed moderate-ish people. The grand majority around here are so far off to the left that they can't even see the center anymore simply due to the curvature of the fuckin planet.
Wow. Sounds like you have an abundance of experience.
See you've been digging through my other comments and leaving your own comments in those other threads. That's the type of shit I'm talking about lol.
Y'all are just unhinged.
Also I noticed the extreme left bias within like an hour of scrolling around here. I didn't see even one remotely moderate take in the comments for the first few days. Since then I've run into a few others, but every time I see their comments it's already downvoted a bunch. It does help me identify people who aren't completely lost to the lefty mind circus though so I guess that's helpful.
Maybe it's because their arguments are fucking trash and childlike and there's not enough bots on Lemmy to land them on the upvoted side of things, even in their own sub.