I don’t know. I think it’s pretty cool. I used to get downvoted on Reddit for being too liberal. Now, on lemmy I get downvoted because I’m not liberal enough. For some reason though, the latter gives me hope.
No you'll still get downvoted for being too liberal. Leftists hate liberals almost as much as conservatives do
I don't think anybody in NA understands the difference between liberal, conservative, social democrat, left-wing, right-wing, socialist, communist, or any of those terms. They just wildly call anybody they don't agree with one of those terms, because to them, they are just insults like cunt, prick, asshole, idiot, bitch, retard, etc. They have no fucking clue what they actually mean.
I hate American political discourse. It's a load of Us versus ((them)), black & white, stuff like that, with fanaticism otherwise reserved for football teams (doesn't matter what they call football & what most of the world calls football), latching onto relatively trivial things & making that part of your identity, and zero room for nuance.
What even is considered liberal? Do we take the literal definition or the muricaland one?
Yeah, that’s my bad. When posting I say liberal just because on Reddit that’s the same thing as leftist. I have to be more specific when discussing it verbally with my friends. So, that’s my bad habit from Reddit.
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Imagine if there was no voting at all and we went back to regular forums. Voting just creates echo chambers for any side to be complete fucks and not hear any other opinions besides the one side that's mostly dominant on the site.
I tend to disagree. Yes, it can cause echo chambers but most of the time if you respectfully discuss things and cite your sources you can disagree and still get upvotes.
Moreover, voting is an extremely effective deterrent against spam, trolling, and advertising.
That is very much not the experience I've had here. People rarely cite sources on the internet anymore, and definitely not here.
Voting used to be an extremely effective deterrent against spam, trolling, and advertising. It may now need some revamping to return efficacy.
I wanted to upvote you, but for the sake of your argument I won't. But yeah I'm not sure up and downvotes are necessary at all
Nah, this place still doesn’t like people who says “so like capitalism”, unfortunately.
It's not a platform problem. The problem is the human condition and the fact that the majority of people are unwilling to accept basic facts about how people think and organize, and change their behavior accordingly.
Now there is a statement I agree with. If people like me and the others who use this platform were actually good with people things would be much different.
I just do things.Hey CCP, go fuck yourself!
Xi is a Pooh bear motherfucker.
See? No one cares if you don’t like the CCP.
You sound like you want a safe space where a liberal/libertarian/nazi/fascist ideology is the prevailing view.
That’s not Lemmy comrade.
I have, I just didn’t care for that community because they felt like shills.
One community isn’t the whole of Lemmy though.
So, one instance is the whole thing? Do you even understand how lemmy, and federation, works? There are literally instances fighting and banning each other.
but if you don't point out it's a photo of what the CCP will happily do to it's own citizens, and has, does it carry any weight?
I literally advocated for nuclear holocaust on China very recently and Noone send the police so far...
Yup. I'd be ashamed to even tell people I use it on case they checked it out and saw all the extremist propaganda here.
Which content are you considering extremist? If it is the communist content that is anti capitalistic people, you are seeing more of that because the lemm.ee is federated with a pro communism anti capitalism instance with a good amount of active users. Lemmy.world got hate for blocking instances like that but i'm hoping that it slowly causes this instance to move away from so many posts being political and economic discussions to content focused on other topics.
Sidenote: instances/threads like thegarden.land which I went to add was listed as 96 active users. Awesome! I thought, only to see they are shutting it down because the attacks made recently in .world. Whomever posted child sexual assault material in an attempt to get them to shut down deserves an extremist judge.