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One of my favourite things about reddit was that I could sort by controversial, and would often find a reasonable take explaining the view of the opposing side. Even when I don't agree with it, I still want to hear it, and what I often found the case to be is that I didn't quite agree with either sides and (unsurprisingly) the thruth is somewhere on the middle.
On Lemmy this often is not the case and I pretty much only hear one side of the argument and not many bothers to write a reasonable take arguing against the apparent view of the masses because it'll just receive downvotes and bad faith counter-arguments. The extreme left is just as unreasonable as the extreme right and it's often the majority in the middle who simply stays silent. There seems to be almost no space for nuance and complexity.