When someone disagrees with you, you have the opportunity to more clearly define what you think. This might mean changing your mind to a greater or lesser degree; it could mean understanding more completely why you hold the view you already have. If the votes show that a lot of people disagree with you, well, conventional wisdom is often enough not very wise.

In my experience, fediverse people have been more reasonable than reddit people - but you're going to find petulant children on any public forum.

Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here.

Enlightened centrism 101 folks. Reduce both sides until they have zero nuance so that you can ignore the substance of any given consensus.

I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.

I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.

They downvoted him for telling the truth.

Lemmy is an echo chamber.