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.
I do feel the need to comment when someone dislikes something for what I think are bad reasons though. I saw a thread recently of someone who avoid roguelikes and soulslikes, but not because they tried them and don’t like them. They had an opinion of them that I think was wrong. (They thought soulslikes were difficult and designed to make people brag, and roguelikes were lacking content and used meta-progression to pad them out —which that’s the wrong term for the one with meta-progression, but whatever.)
If someone likes something though, that’s fine. Unless they like it for particularly annoying reasons, I’m not going to comment or engage, besides maybe asking for more information. Everyone has different opinions. I like some weird games that a lot of people probably would hate, and that’s fine with me. It isn’t their concern.