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It's a raging echo chamber in here. There's Democrats foaming at the mouth with how much they hate Republicans. It'd be one thing if they argued their stances and took on responses, but instead they only ridicule and strawman while admins delete and ban dissent. I'm not even a Republican. I just expect my alternative community to not make their moves from the fascist playbook. The whole point of decentralization is so we don't have central figures abusing their positions!
Someone tell me this is just a lemmy.world thing and that there's better instances.
As I've grown older, contrary to the norm, I've grown more liberal, so Lemmy seems more welcoming. But I do worry about the echo chamber here. I think about it a lot.
It's not really that contrary, most people don't actually become more conservative as they age. It's not quite a myth but very much over stated. Political orientations over the course of the life span are very stable. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=poliscifacpub
I found it both weird (sometimes in a bad way) and fascinating.
From all life taught me, more online freedom normally gives rise to far-right extremism, and this place is surprisingly...left?
But yes, it might be skewed. As a left (and not Democrat kind of left, more like communist kind of left) I can't not enjoy it, but I understand some people can be left out and that's not nice to them.
The general ethos really is left-wing here.
It's all up to who runs the server and decentralizing should be used to combat that nonsense.
Sure
Lemmy as a project is free from ideology, but the spirit of main instances is like this. That's what I'm saying.
Here's how I see this. There's people out there making posts and comments I want to see but can't because someone owns the streets and decided those people must be silence. What's even the point of switching away from the corporate abuse nonsense? It's the same here except just not as good. The only way this makes sense is if people manage their own filters and admins can't.