I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I’ll be switching back.
Edit: you’ll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.
Lemmy isn’t an echo chamber. It can’t be because it doesn’t have an algorithmic feed so it’s not artificially boosting viewpoints based on engagement. There is simply more people who are more left-leaning than Reddit/twitter. The political posts aren’t self-reinforcing just really prevalent