I remember a decade ago, Penn & Teller’s Bullshit TV show clearly illustrated this reality. People were just too swept away with mainstream misinformation.

I was shamed by vegans a while back for advocating for lab-grown meat. I love the taste of meat, but I don’t like animal suffering. I can’t wait for this to be perfected.

From lab to slab, baby!

Don’t forget the $83 million owed to E Jean Carol as well.

As the kid plays videogames or listens to music, nitrous oxide, an anesthetic gas, is emitted through the snorkel and puts the child to sleep.

Finally!

A humane way to euthanize our children!

Yeah, they pick out the easiest person to pin a crime on/extract a false confession from.

Oh I never worried about being downvoted on lemmy or reddit.

I’m not discounting my bias; I’m acknowledging the bias exists, but that it’s far more aligned with reality and objectivity than the mainstream right, which complain about the leftist bias of lemmy.

And your Isreal example is totally out of touch. The vast majority of discussion on lemmy condemns both the terrorism of Hamas as well as the genocide being committed by Isreal.

I personally didn’t think he had a chance to be elected… I thought Hillary was going to win and didn’t want to cast a vote for her because I disliked her as a candidate. But I would definitely go back vote for her if I could.

Oh I 100% agree with you. I have mixed feelings about how their communities are downvoted, but I’ll admit I’m mildly amused by it.

It was because of their defederation status for Threads as well as the tankie instances. I was originally on lemmy.world, but switched to feddit.de because of .world’s Threads federation.

Feddit.de was the only instance I could find defederated from Threads and the tankies.

Ah, yeah I had the comments of this post open for longer than 6 minutes, so your comment wasn’t visible to me.

I think they were mostly reasonable, with some complaints like how they banned piracy communities for a while and also banned/removed a community about magic mushrooms.

I disagreed with their federating with Threads, so I hopped over onto feddit.de because they are defederated from Threads and tankie instances. That’s the beauty of the fediverse tho.

But you can view the de/federated instances lists for every instance and see if you agree with it. Different apps may have different routes/capability, so I’d recommend opening it in a browser and scrolling to the bottom of the page to find the link: “instances”

To make it easier for you, here’s the instances list for lemmy.world.

If you look at the conservative community, all their posts are downvoted (at least every time I’ve peeked at it). Same with the Joe Rogan community.

They don’t have respite in their own communities on lemmy, due to users browsing all and downvoting their posts.

Maybe on specific instances that cater towards propoganda and extremism, but not on the Fediverse itself.

Lemmy most certainly is less of an echo-chamer. There’s often good discussions and less toxic responses and blanket downvoting (not that it doesn’t happen).

Typically, heavily downvoted users are trolls, hateful comments, or categorically false claims/propoganda (which is why conservatives don’t like it). But there is still toxic bandwagon voting that suppresses dissenting opinions.

But to claim it’s on the same level as reddit is laughable. You can claim that lemmy is a “leftist” echo-chamer, but the important distinction is that the “right” do not hold themselves or their news sources to any standard or basis is reality.

Lemmy may be more leftist, but that doesn’t mean it’s an echo-chamer in the way reddit/conservative forums/subreddits are echo-chamers. And it sure as hell doesn’t mean the news/discussion is biased/false in the way it is among conservatives.

Not to mention, there are stark differences in the way extremism manifests and the propensity for violence between the right and left.

Yeah, reinforcing your beliefs in an echo-chamer is comforting, isn’t it?

I love how much more international and diverse lemmy is. I’m American, but I am happier with the fact that lemmy isn’t 85%+ Americans like on reddit (not a real statistic). I enjoy seeing more content from different perspectives and nationalities.

Being pragmatic is to take the lesser of two evils. You’re taking a different option entirely. Inaction.

I will admit I fell into this during the first election cycle in which I could vote, which was 2016. I couldn’t stomach voting for Hillary after the Debbie Wasserman Schultz/DNC corruption with Bernie.

I dispised trump, but refused to vote for the lesser of two evils. Never again… I’m not a big fan of Biden, but I voted for him and I will eagerly do so again.

My first thought reading the title was “Better check his posting history, probably alt right.”

They are certainly outnumbered on lemmy and face factual rebuttals without insulation of echo-chamers.

Man… I tried to hit clear after looking at this for a second…

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