ClinicallydepressedpoochieIf r/conservative ever wonders how astroturfing becomes a thing in their highly curated community just look at the quality of stuff that gets elevated. Anyone can write this tripe shit.
DarkFutureAs someone else said, that sub is a few hundred mentally ill people responding to a bunch of bots designed to instigate stupid people.
MajorllamaAs opposed to Lemmy which is a majority mentally ill people responding to a bunch of other mentally ill people and patting themselves on the back all day?
You guys are just two sides of the same mentally ill coin.
An echo chamber is an echo chamber no matter what color paint you put on the walls.
LemminaryI’m glad you’re on here doing something else, like taking big Ls down in the comments.
Bro people have been following me around and down voting everything I say regardless if it’s something they agree with since the day I got here.
You really think I give a shit about “taking Ls?”. Y’all can claim youre dunking on me allllll day. Doesn’t change how bad of an echo chamber this website is or how batshit insane the majority of the users are.
Bro people have been following me around and down voting everything
You sure? Because your entire comment history is about going against the grain and endlessly complaining about “you people”. Tbh, you don’t sound exactly friendly.
You really think I give a shit about “taking Ls?”
Clearly not with the endless quarreling lol Could it be a personality disorder? Not being mean, it’s a genuine question, having been diagnosed myself and having had worked through things
Doesn’t change how bad of an echo chamber this website is
The absence of a large conservative user base does not necessarily make it an echo chamber. If anything, the conservatives around here act just like you picking fights with everyone, but also post tons of misinformation in typical conservative fashion. Literally the only ones. You’re essentially asking us diners why they’re such cucks for not taking a plop of shit to our dinner plate and blaming us for poor diets. Like, c’mon, dude. Do you understand what you’re asking for? How can you be so apologetic to venomous conservative antics?
And before you accuse me of being another monkey in a chamber, consider that I spent 15+ years arguing with dissenting, hard-headed voices online in all types of diverse forums, including conservative and conspiracy groups. And after all that, I’m done with that mind-numbing shit having to explain basic aspects of life to people who flunked out of school. If Lemmy is an occasional echo chamber but at least rubs their braincells together and still believes in integrity, then so be it. I’m happy I don’t need to interact with stupid often. Lemmy is sophisticated and self-aware enough of its own perils for the simple fact that it’s largely educated. You’re not the first to notice or raise your points, nor will you be the last. But at least walk two moons in our shoes before you descend with derision and judgement as to why we’re here in the first place. We’ve been there, we’ve done it, and nothing good came out of it. Stop pretending you know the answers to problems we don’t have.
Not my entire comment history. I do occasionally say things that are the prevailing opinion on this website and even those things are downvoted lol. Not like the fake Internet points matter anyway, but it does prove my point.
Not a personality disorder. I don’t always intend to start arguments (I understand that many of my opinions will inherently start arguments given the people around), but am happy to argue with people if that’s what they want to do. If you actually look at my comment history you will also see plenty of situations where I am being helpful or talking about non-political things just fine.
I think you might be aware of the degree of echo chamber that Lemmy is, but most users here absolutely do not have an ounce of outside perspective on anything being discussed here.
but most users here absolutely do not have an ounce of outside perspective
I wouldn’t be so sure of this, at least not with the current user base. Most Lemmings are painfully aware, just like they’re painfully aware of propaganda, bias, misinformation and all that matters. Those are all actively discussed all the time in many forms. For example, were you here for the Media Bias Fact Check bot debacle? It was centered around the role of fact checking unintentionally perpetuating biases. You can’t ask for a better hallmark of a considerate, educated and actively concerned user base.
Like I said before, there have been many other commenters before pointing out how Lemmy sometimes feels like an echo chamber because it can be of your only concern is excluding the right. But is it really an echo chamber if you look at the other side of the political spectrum? We have anywhere from moderates to anarchists to goddamn tankies here, and part of that came about because the right hasn’t had the chance to dominate and polarize this site into only two bands. Isn’t that a win on its own?
Considering that I hold a handful of more moderate or centrist opinions and they are seemingly entirely hated here I will say that yes the lack of right leaning presence has led to Lemmy being a far left echo chamber and in certain situations a massive circle jerk.
With nobody around even slightly questioning their beliefs they just snowball each other into more of a hate boner for anything they deem slightly right of their position.
I have run into a handful of people (like less than 20) that seem to actually have a firm grasp on reality and have touched grass at some point in the last 8 years.