Most political differences in America today aren’t a result of moral differences, or even policy opinions. Rather, they are generated by divergent media consumption. There’s a huge difference between those whose news comes primarily from the corporate Big Five (CBS-Viacom, ABC-Disney, NBC-Universal, Fox-NewsCorp, and CNN-TimeWarner) and that handful of midsize…
Totally agree here :(
I think that Reddit is still worse though. Reddit is one huge (“liberal”) echo-chamber, while Lemmy consists of several medium-ish echo-chambers (LW for “liberals”, .ml for “communists”, and so on and so on) but that are still linked together (oh well, that is until the defederation wars start…). So, on Reddit you are forced to be in the echo-chamber, while on Lemmy you still can interact with people of opposing views, if you choose to.
Only started to use Lemmy yesterday and noticed it seems to be a fairly technical community and indeed very liberal/marxist. Haven’t seen a lot of conservative or libertarian comments and the few I’ve seen were heavily downvoted. I like the decentralized and technical aspect of Lemmy. You can basically start your own ‘mini-reddit’. It just needs more users to make it an interesting place. Almost all social media is horrible from a privacy pov these days. Almost impossible to register without phone and via VPN.
This instance not even requires an e-mail address. 👍
I think “fairly technical community” applies to most decentralized/federated communities, for better or for worse :/
On Lemmy, downvotes do not matter as much. There is no “karma”, your comment/post will not get “hidden”, etc. The only impact is that your post/comment will be ordered lower when sorting by active (I prefer sorting by new). Some instances disable downvotes, but I don’t think there is a point in doing that :)
To be fair, this is probably a privilege only affordable to small instances, like this one… Dealing with spam/bots/etc. becomes harder the bigger the website is :(
Yes - I’ve been around since ICQ 😀 and still love new technologies.
I understand that if this community grows it will take a bit more effort to register. As long as no gmail address is needed for registering and tuta or similar is accepted I am fine with that. I just don’t like the phone registration obligations that are usually tied to registering.
Juist tried a libertarian comment on a ‘hot’ pro-socialist topic - lets see how it goes. I think I will keep on posting locally here now and then with some new content. Libertarianism needs to be explained and promoted. You can see in Argentina what 100 years of collectivism has done to that country.