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Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I seriously cannot have any degree of nuanced conversation here.

Like I get it, we all know capitalism is bad, but it feels like every time I or anyone go towards discussing the steps that need to be taken to address current looming problems in the short term, someone has to jump in and shut it down with "capitalism bad >:[ " and tear down any idea presented because its not complete and total destruction of the current economic model.

The result just feels like an echo chamber where no actual solutions get presented other than someone posting whole ass dissertations on their 33-step (where 30/33 steps are about as vague as "we'll just handle it") plan to fully convert the world to an anarchist commune.

Edit: I still vastly prefer Lemmy and the fediverse and a whole, my complaint here is that many of you are TOO INTENSE. You blow up small scale discussion.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Want deeper discussion? I'm reading "being no one" by Thomas Metzinger. In simplistic terms, it's a scientific book about how you aren't a self, but a constantly running process. I'm very down to discuss it.

Of course, people aren't using Lemmy for that level of discussion generally. They're using it to entertain themselves while shitting, or they're urgently trying to push agendas. That's the internet these days. People geeking on specific subjects into granular detail is on life support in tiny communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I agree with much of what you said. Lemmy is (to me) a place to find memes, news, and shitposts. It's not a place i would attempt to find a meaningful community for a specific hobby-- something Reddit was able to pull off to some extent. Even then, i found Reddit was often a low-quality substitute for communities that were often better served on a dedicated site and/or forum elsewhere. Reddit could still point you to those places though, so it all worked out imo. It's a shame it all went down the way it did, nothing good ever lasts for very long--especially on the Internet :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Sounds interesting! Your description reminds me of this YouTube / Nebula video about head transplants