Just to clarify, I don’t think it’s a problem that hatred is minimal here, and I don’t just mean politics.
I feel like I very rarely see alternative opinions about anything, whether it be software, ai, news about companies, etc. it just seems like everyone universally agrees about anything with only a tiny handful of exceptions.
It makes me hesitant to believe I’m on the “correct side” and I never see any arguments from opposition. This makes me worried that I’m in some sort of echo chamber. In real life, I do see much more diverse opinions and, if I only used the fediverse for social media, would likely be weaker in defending my own since their arguments would be “new” to me.
I understand the reasons for which the fediverse has pretty collective opinion, but it does still worry me. I want to be able to see all the other people with their own thoughts (given it’s respectful) on the Internet, which should be the most capable tool to do so.
There’s plenty of diversity here. Loads and loads. I see it in every single thread.
But it’s different than the diversity on other platforms. The diversity on other platforms is like “should we feed the homeless or should we bomb another country?”. And the diversity here is more like. “Obviously we need to feed the homeless, that’s not a question, but we differ on how we accomplish that goal”.
If you’re looking for that other sort of diversity, you need to find a site with more sociopaths.
I actually agree with you here. My first thought was the anarchist communities here. Sometimes I agree with the sentiment of a post there, sometimes I don’t. I think we largely agree on a rough framework of the world, though, which is, like you said, different from the complete inability to agree on the fundamentals.
Yeah, it is like how most if not all European countries have more than two political parties, which usually leads to a more sensible discourse than the one seen on reddit/USA.
Summed up perfectly why I left Reddit for here.
And most people here live in a city and work in IT. Like, take the 10% of your area that agrees with you the most and there’s going to be vastly more diversity of thought and opinion.
You know what they say about thinking everyone else is an asshole…
The tankie instances seem full of people without empathy, so that’s a start I guess if you want more sociopaths…
one thing i have noticed here is that often people will engage in actually productive discussion even if they disagree. I also welcome being corrected, often that is the best thing here since it lets me actually learn/correct something with my thoughts.