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.
/agree
Hot Take: I honestly don’t know if I’m right or not about this, but it feels like it’s a generational thing, and not just a Lemmy thing.
Yeah we’re a bunch of cunts, it’s fair to say.
why do you expect random people on the internet to be smart enough to be able to have a position and defend it for such a complex thing as the economy?
I think you’ll find a lot of nuance for more specific matters, but not for something this complex and abstract. You’ll mostly get emotional responses and opinions. If you want to have an intellectual discussion on economics, I don’t think this is the right place.
You could also be part of the solution and create a community for that type of content. You could be in charge of moderating it, to keep away the users that you consider are echo-chambering without actual contributions… I mean, if you really care about actual solutions.
I definitely feel like I can get away with posting against group think here on lemmy far more than I did on reddit.
I’m not talking about going “against group think” I just don’t want to be bombarded with replies about the global capitalism problem when I’m trying to talk about how to engage in local rent control or something else smaller than global revolution.
Ah, yeah. That can be annoying. I’d suggest getting more comfortable with the block feature then. Since I myself have gotten more comfortable with it, I’ve had to deal with the loud idiots far less. Lemme has far more ability to curate what you expose yourself to than Reddit ever did
I actually find the conversations on Lemmy to be a lot more educated and in depth than the ones I’ve seen on Reddit or Twitter over the years. Sure, you still get a couple raving idiots chime in to accuse you of crimes against humanity occasionally, but it’s not worth fretting over.
