My experience on lemmy is that the facts are secondary. It’s a slight exaggeration, but if you don’t support someone, you have to oppose everything they do or you are some big supporter of them. If you point out some criticism of them is not based in fact, it’s “why would you defend them?”
It’s much easier if the world is black and white and you’re in a bubble that agrees with that. And so they’ll attack anything that upsets this uniform simplicity.
Like, is everyone here so opposed to actual facts if it looks like there is even one iota of support for the ‘other team’?
It’s an election year in the US, so yes. The amount of people I see get down voted for what people assume someone means instead of the literal words on the screen is absurd. I see people preface critisizm of America with ‘Im euroepan’ so they dont get mobbed by Americans demanding they admit Trump is worse and that voting for anyone but their guy is sure to bring the apocalypse.
Don’t get me wrong I much prefer Lemmy to reddit, but there’s not as much difference in community as some people like to say there is. Basically we just like linux a lot more here.
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My experience on lemmy is that the facts are secondary. It’s a slight exaggeration, but if you don’t support someone, you have to oppose everything they do or you are some big supporter of them. If you point out some criticism of them is not based in fact, it’s “why would you defend them?”
It’s much easier if the world is black and white and you’re in a bubble that agrees with that. And so they’ll attack anything that upsets this uniform simplicity.
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While I agree, it seems especially pronounced here.
It’s an election year in the US, so yes. The amount of people I see get down voted for what people assume someone means instead of the literal words on the screen is absurd. I see people preface critisizm of America with ‘Im euroepan’ so they dont get mobbed by Americans demanding they admit Trump is worse and that voting for anyone but their guy is sure to bring the apocalypse.
Don’t get me wrong I much prefer Lemmy to reddit, but there’s not as much difference in community as some people like to say there is. Basically we just like linux a lot more here.
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