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.

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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I think this comment says a lot, maybe it's you who is the " wrong user"

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  • [+] [S] -6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My comment history is free to audit. That's a lot of work though and jumping to conclusions at any sign of a diverging thought feels better. Definitely not an echo chamber.

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    You are assuming that downvotes are some metric I optimize for. They're meaningless beyond the value that others put in them and reach a dogpile effect on discussion at some point. Most of my issue is not on topics I comment on or how they're received, but the topics posted on lemmy and how they are engaged. It's the comments I haven't made.

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