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Lemmy political pov: the universe should be free and open source

It’s the algorithms. Except 4chan where that’s just how it do.

Redditors are communists? News to me.

People with extreme views are also more vocal, so that's what you see. That's why social media is bad for you. If gives you a very distorted view of the world. Most people are able to look at politics with nuance.

Discourse evaporated when the rightwing and Faux "News" declared "compromise" as blasphemy. That's why so many moderate Republicans will still vote along party lines, despite knowing the candidate is batshit crazy. To vote Democrat is to commit suicide to those people.

Edit: was trying to get this comment done before kid woke up from nap and barely made it. Fixed the faux pa.

The media has tried very hard to normalize extremism.

Funny key then

Ducking autocorrect I meant: Don't let them.

Enlightened centrist thoughts intensify

Its probably because extremists don't feel comfortable expressing their views in their everyday life, so they do it online instead, where they have some anonymity or at least don't face the same backlash as they would if they were to voice their opinions at work or at a bar or something.

Also, controversial takes get more engagement, which means more ad revenue.

Social media politics is confirmation bias by design.

A few of my opinions that are less popular here:

• Unions are not a perfect solution.
• landlords are not inherantly bad and it's not a "sit back and cash in" type of job.
• Bridled Capitalism is a better system than the comunism we've tried so far.

I have no desire to debate any of those here. I talk politics with friends and in person and I try to remain skeptical especially of facts that happen to go my way.

Really benign obvious thoughts don't spur engagement. The fringe political viewpoints cause comments and shares and therefor will always look like the only things people are talking about when your method of interacting with content is molded by an algorithm designed to increase engagement to support advertising revenue.

Sounds tin foil hat, but it's actually by design as none of these companies are even remotely non-profit.

Edit: spelling

Holy strawman. Ironically, by reducing all those platforms to one extremist opinion he is doing exactly the same thing he is whining about.

The more extreme someone's views, the more likely they are to talk about them.

People with moderate views generally avoid talking politics as much as possible.

You can tell that this is about pre-Elon Twitter lmao

I dunno but northern European socialism is looking pretty ok to me lately.

Lemmy is a combination of Twitter and Reddit.

I pictured literal sheep in Halloween masks at first. I thought it was just insane person Facebook.

If I did see a whole flock of sheep in Halloween masks, I would have something to say...

We’re here…we just don’t shout as much the others. We’re probably reading a book quietly in the other room.

Actually, Communism has never existed.