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SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’ve been using Lemmy less because it’s so depressing. It feels like a majority of the engagement is with depressing US politics and a strong left bias (to be clear, I also hate the current government). Unlike most, I really like most of the nerdy tech content.
Which is why I’ve been lurking more on Hacker News lately, it’s tech minded forums with an appropriate level of politics and more nuanced takes. And as a bonus the interface even less bloated (in terms of resource usage) than any Lemmy frontend I’ve tried.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
zen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I really can’t with Hacker News. The new US food guidelines were a good example. Every single damn comment was defending the inclusion of beef and dairy in it, especially saturated fat.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Don’t forget you can block communities that irritate you. I’ve got plenty blocked that aren’t even things I’m opposed to, but just don’t want my feed to be full of.
fluxx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, but you don’t want to lock yourself in an echo chamber either. You want to be as close to reality as possible, at least I do. Though I realize that’s niche federated internet community is a bad place for that. But this is the reason I don’t block communities. I used to be on lemm.ee for that reason, but it got shut down. I have no problem reading communist propaganda and deciding for myself if it’s garbage. But I have problem with censorship. Though bullying and abuse is where I draw the line. But what I see is even without algorithm based feeds, people are still polarized. Possibly because, like me, people with moderate views tend to not comment or engage, while polar opposite groups want you to firmly choose sides and denounce the other side or else you are garbage. In summary, I think it’s depressing because reality is currently depressing. But it’s unrealistic to just pretend everything is just fine and be happy.
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I’ve done that and it’s significantly better because of that feature. Speaking of, is it possible to migrate blocklists from one account to another?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
i use it less, because theres been less content, ever since ee shut down, the users just scattered too much to agregate more posts, this is not including politics.
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
“Strong left bias” is not bias, it is just a reflection of normal human decency. If you mean that fake leftists like the dbzero fascists are around a lot, I would agree and it’s a problem.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Since when are dbzero users racists?
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Fascists. Authoritarians. Whatever you want to call them. I’ll explain. They submitted a proposal to ban all “Zionists or Zionist apologists” and I objected on the grounds that it is, objectively, the very fascism they were denouncing. They banned me simply for suggesting this. That’s what I’m talking about.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Banning fascism isn’t fascism though. This doesn’t make any sense.
vurr@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Imagine being so biased that you are completely blind to the facts.
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Since you do not understand even the smallest aspect of what I said, you are not in a position to make such a judgment.