Id like more right wingers. Not in a i like them kind of a way in a i want lemmy more representative of the population kind of way. I also think we really need to be pushing harder on the free speach free marketplace of ideas we have created.
Lemmy is pretty international. We have right wingers here, but itβs not really representative. The USA right wingers only make up a small portion of worldwide population, so donβt stress. Itβs not an echo chamber.
Yea, I think the American bubble makes people think their political spectrum is normal⦠while the Democrats would be a right or centrist party pretty much anywhere else in the world.
I think generally the community-driven, communal decentralized open concept kind of clashes at least with far right & neo lib thinking.
How its the ultimate embodiment of free speach the marketplace of ideals and competition. Id classify these as liberal ideas but ive notices a lot of the Americanised left wing doeant seem to agree with these anymore.
Leftism refers to collective ownership of the Means of Production, Rightism refers to individual ownership. Reddit is Capitalist, Lemmy is the Leftist answer to it.
There is no βcompetitionβ on Lemmy because thereβs no profit and no production.
I get what youβre saying but I like that Lemmy has a left wing bias (with a dash of libertarians). If it was the dominant media site, Iβd agree about the echo chamber risk but so much media (in the English speaking world, anyway) is under right wing ownership now. Having a handful of sites that are a refuge from it all is a feature for me, not a bug. Itβs an escape from the echo chamber.
I like that Lemmy has a left wing bias
it currently feels exactly like pre-2014 reddit. in a good way
No, it absolutely does not. Lemmy has a LOT of groupthink, just a different type of groupthink than the norm.
Reddit pre 2014 was the wild fucking west. Youβd have some girl posting about why she likes sticking goat intestines up her butt and the comments would be all βitβs not my thing but I can see your point of viewβ. People were selling heroin on a public forum. There was a sub called something like βfiftyfiftyβ where you click on a link and itβs either a cute bunny or some dude getting beheaded, no blurring or censorship just full gruesome decapitation. The most popular sub was called βjailbaitβ for chrissake.
Like, kids today cannot comprehend how sanitised everything is. You are locked in a box. Lemmy is a different box than reddit is a different box than Instagram is a different box than Facebook is a different box than Twitter. You donβt know what freedom is. You will never know. Itβs exhilarating and terrifying. But all you can do nowadays is pick a different box.
I donβt think you deserve to be so heavily downvoted, but also Christ itβs nice to have a refuge where I donβt have to constantly hate humanity. Particularly when so often itβs simply not possible to have a genuine conversation because folks are spitting out talking points and ignoring facts. Which the left does as well but at least they donβt make me want to go on a murderous rampage. Usually.
That last bit feels very unlikely or a total distortion. Not because Iβm looking to argue, but I also happen to be human (meaning I think this applies universally to all humans regardless of any particular philosophy) and that sounds incredibly tedious and I canβt believe thatβs the sort of thing any other human would spend their valuable time doing. Iβd rather fold my laundry, and I fucking hate folding laundry.
More here than R**dit. As a pro-gun Libral (pro-pistol), I had a great chat with a hard-line anti-gun person on here. On Reddit, I would have risked being permabanned for being a maga racist by an idiot mod, then had zero recourse against the idiot mod (totally not a bitter anecdoteβ¦).
Here, if I have a heated debate with a conservative, as long as it doesnβt get hostile, I can keep communicating and trying to help them understand my points instead of suddenly talking to [deleted] about [deleted] because some shit mod didnβt like their views.
Hey for the record ive been banned for saying this perfectly proving my point.
