My experience on lemmy is that the facts are secondary. It’s a slight exaggeration, but if you don’t support someone, you have to oppose everything they do or you are some big supporter of them. If you point out some criticism of them is not based in fact, it’s “why would you defend them?”
It’s much easier if the world is black and white and you’re in a bubble that agrees with that. And so they’ll attack anything that upsets this uniform simplicity.
This doesn’t happen just on Lemmy. This happens on all social media. Everyone has their own little bubbles these days, and you must be 100% dedicated to the cause. Even the mere suggestion that the other side may have a point on anything is considered weakness and will get you labelled as a traitor to the cause. This is not only the state of politics these days, but the state of any topic of controversy: Sex, politics, religion, women’s rights, LGBT rights, anything. You either must be 100% for or 100% against. Try to find a middle ground and you’re just likely to find yourself ostracized by both sides.
Like, is everyone here so opposed to actual facts if it looks like there is even one iota of support for the ‘other team’?
It’s an election year in the US, so yes. The amount of people I see get down voted for what people assume someone means instead of the literal words on the screen is absurd. I see people preface critisizm of America with ‘Im euroepan’ so they dont get mobbed by Americans demanding they admit Trump is worse and that voting for anyone but their guy is sure to bring the apocalypse.
Don’t get me wrong I much prefer Lemmy to reddit, but there’s not as much difference in community as some people like to say there is. Basically we just like linux a lot more here.
No, this place is much worse than reddit. You could find a space that had different views on reddit. Here is just one giant echo chamber that you must agree with or else. Democrats have just as much good ideas as Republicans, which is to say pretty freaking close to zero. So it would be nice to get factual information from either side, but that clearly won’t happen here.
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My experience on lemmy is that the facts are secondary. It’s a slight exaggeration, but if you don’t support someone, you have to oppose everything they do or you are some big supporter of them. If you point out some criticism of them is not based in fact, it’s “why would you defend them?”
It’s much easier if the world is black and white and you’re in a bubble that agrees with that. And so they’ll attack anything that upsets this uniform simplicity.
This doesn’t happen just on Lemmy. This happens on all social media. Everyone has their own little bubbles these days, and you must be 100% dedicated to the cause. Even the mere suggestion that the other side may have a point on anything is considered weakness and will get you labelled as a traitor to the cause. This is not only the state of politics these days, but the state of any topic of controversy: Sex, politics, religion, women’s rights, LGBT rights, anything. You either must be 100% for or 100% against. Try to find a middle ground and you’re just likely to find yourself ostracized by both sides.
While I agree, it seems especially pronounced here.
It’s an election year in the US, so yes. The amount of people I see get down voted for what people assume someone means instead of the literal words on the screen is absurd. I see people preface critisizm of America with ‘Im euroepan’ so they dont get mobbed by Americans demanding they admit Trump is worse and that voting for anyone but their guy is sure to bring the apocalypse.
Don’t get me wrong I much prefer Lemmy to reddit, but there’s not as much difference in community as some people like to say there is. Basically we just like linux a lot more here.
No, this place is much worse than reddit. You could find a space that had different views on reddit. Here is just one giant echo chamber that you must agree with or else. Democrats have just as much good ideas as Republicans, which is to say pretty freaking close to zero. So it would be nice to get factual information from either side, but that clearly won’t happen here.