That’s true of all social media. It turns out, collecting information into groups tends to attract people w/ strong opinions about that type of information. If you have two groups, one very positive about something and one very negative, they’ll form separate groups because people prefer validation to conflict. It’s the natural consequence of social media, people like to form groups w/ like-minded people.
I didn’t come to Lemmy because I disliked the Reddit hive-mind issue, I came because I disliked how they treated third party developers and volunteer moderators. I self-corrected for Reddit’s hive-mind by joining a bunch of subreddits that attracted different perspectives (i.e. some for leftists, some for conservatives, some for anarchists, etc) so I’d hopefully get a decent mix, and I do the same here on Lemmy (though it seems Lemmy is a bit more leftist than Reddit, so there’s a bit less diversity in politics at least). I do the same for news sources and in my use of LLMs (ask it to find issues w/ a previous answer it gave).
So I sometimes post alternative viewpoints in threads like these to hopefully give someone a chance to reconsider their opinions. Sometimes those comments get traction, sometimes they don’t, but hopefully someone down the line will see them and appreciate it.
Nah Lemmy in particular is a worse dump than Miyazaki’s poison swamps. The level of zeal on lemmy is staggering (I mean, it’s already resulted in one terrorist attack)
I feel like this is because it’s much smaller than alternatives. It starts to feel like you’re circlejerking the same dicks every day.
And I don’t think it’s necessarily worse, but it really depends on the community and instance. Hexbear, ml, and lemmygrad are absolute dumpster fires, but the other instances are a lot more chill. But each has its own form of group think.
OK, here’s the best source I could find. According to one of the comments there, he was active for a month in 2023 when the Reddit API thing happened, and that’s it.
So yes, he technically was on Lemmy, but “a Lemmy radical” doesn’t really fit since he was only here for a short time along with a bunch of other protesters. If anything, he’s probably a Reddit radical.
That’s true of all social media. It turns out, collecting information into groups tends to attract people w/ strong opinions about that type of information. If you have two groups, one very positive about something and one very negative, they’ll form separate groups because people prefer validation to conflict. It’s the natural consequence of social media, people like to form groups w/ like-minded people.
I didn’t come to Lemmy because I disliked the Reddit hive-mind issue, I came because I disliked how they treated third party developers and volunteer moderators. I self-corrected for Reddit’s hive-mind by joining a bunch of subreddits that attracted different perspectives (i.e. some for leftists, some for conservatives, some for anarchists, etc) so I’d hopefully get a decent mix, and I do the same here on Lemmy (though it seems Lemmy is a bit more leftist than Reddit, so there’s a bit less diversity in politics at least). I do the same for news sources and in my use of LLMs (ask it to find issues w/ a previous answer it gave).
So I sometimes post alternative viewpoints in threads like these to hopefully give someone a chance to reconsider their opinions. Sometimes those comments get traction, sometimes they don’t, but hopefully someone down the line will see them and appreciate it.
Nah Lemmy in particular is a worse dump than Miyazaki’s poison swamps. The level of zeal on lemmy is staggering (I mean, it’s already resulted in one terrorist attack)
I feel like this is because it’s much smaller than alternatives. It starts to feel like you’re circlejerking the same dicks every day.
Source?
And I don’t think it’s necessarily worse, but it really depends on the community and instance. Hexbear, ml, and lemmygrad are absolute dumpster fires, but the other instances are a lot more chill. But each has its own form of group think.
The anti natalist dude who attacked a fertilization center was a lemmy radical.
Want a source? Look at the SS Headquarters (also known as lemmy.world)
OK, here’s the best source I could find. According to one of the comments there, he was active for a month in 2023 when the Reddit API thing happened, and that’s it.
So yes, he technically was on Lemmy, but “a Lemmy radical” doesn’t really fit since he was only here for a short time along with a bunch of other protesters. If anything, he’s probably a Reddit radical.