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this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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Block certain communities, block certain people that sometimes go outside them with political posts. I'm guilty of that now and then so you should block me to.
My bad, I am posting while on my breaks at my part time jobs so sometimes I screw up. But lemmy is for everyone, you should make it how you want. Start utilizing the tools here to shape it your way.
Peace.
Not necessarily, but I do engage less with it because there seems to be a lot of group think here (seems the majority are leftists and alternative viewpoints get downvoted).
If it was more distributed across the political spectrum, I might be more interested.
Yeah, Lemmy is a fairly extreme echochamber.
if a dozen people independently decide that your ideas are indefensible, to you that looks like a group, but really it's just a bunch of people reading something shitty. to dismiss that as "group think" sort of highlights something about you more than the platform, doesn't it?
no one told me to say this
You seem to be assuming the platform is a random, representative sample of the general population, which I don't think holds up. I think it's much more likely that there's a reason the platform skews left, and my guess is that it's a mix of:
- the devs are pretty hardcore socialists, so the people who could put up with that in the early days were left-leaning - this is backed up by lemmy.ml generally being more leftist than most other instances
- people too far right for other platforms probably already left for places like Truth Social, Voat (is that still a thing?), and similar platforms
- people too far left for other platforms didn't have a clear place to go AFAICT
- people annoyed by Reddit's corporatism probably lean more left on average; Reddit already leans left, so this would attract the more extreme of that population
That's my take. I honestly don't read too much into it, so I generally don't bother with the political posts because the discussion seems a bit too group think-y to really be constructive.
If you have statistics from a broad, random sample that demonstrate that lemmy opinions are well distributed, I'm happy to change my mind. But "eat the rich" as a meme here really isn't a thing I've experienced in real life, so I really don't think lemmy is all that politically diverse.
Sometimes.
I just don't get too too invested into it. A lot of people just like to make wild assumptions, they love to pretend that they know more than what's already available for information, the equally wild takes, the baseless accusations and the word salad that they all actively scramble to sound smart.
I give an opinion of my own most times, but I don't breathe politics. I know where I stand, so it is just personally amusing for people to always sort me into where they think I am because they all think black and white towards anything.
Why would I avoid politics on the politics platform?