I do admit, it is a bit of an echo chamber on here for some groups :(
Comment on Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit?
DingoBilly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s generally not a good thing…
That means it’s more likely to be an echo chamber or just bots auto posting…
You want a lot of diversity - within specific groups sure, the same names are fine but across groups that’s a bad sign.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 8 months ago
TJDetweiler@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’ll largely be an echo chamber regardless of size. The fediverse tends to lean into tech, and is very left wing. If you don’t fit the bill, you are either driven off, de-federated with, or realize the content posted here isn’t what you’re looking for, and you leave.
I don’t mind the small knit community, as I agree with most stuff, but this simply isn’t a place you can host competing ideas, or at least not feasibly. This isn’t a place for open discussion. You get down voted for your opinion, even if it is a shitty one. This isn’t the fediverse I want to see. I want to see people upvoted for their opinion, and enticed to engage with whatever discourse is present, regardless of views. Downvotes should be reserved for trolls, bots, and fascists. Everyone else should be welcome.
Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is there somewhere online where you can have an “open discussion”? I’ve been struck a few times by how some ideas (even presented in a balanced way) just get downvoted hard.
kariboka@bolha.forum 8 months ago
Lemmy.world choose to become an echo chamber like beehaw did.
Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Definitely. Downvotes can be monitored by admins now, hopefully this can help