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[–] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I mean Lemmy isn't very open to alternative opinion either, but most people here are even more similar that we don't notice

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Very much this. There are some views that are so pervasive here that people don't realize that alternative views are even possible, that anyone who says otherwise must be faking or trolling in some manner.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I said something wrong about anarchism once here on Lemmy and an extremely friendly user took quite a lot of time to help me educate myself, clarifying my mistake, recommending reading material and engaging me in frank and friendly conversation about the topic.

    On Reddit, I'd either have been upvoted to the sky by people as ignorant as me (or more) or get called a bunch of slurs and told to go fuck myself.

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  • [+] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    There are a lot of great communities on Reddit still. Lemmy users are a self-selected bunch, and one of the things we self-select for is intolerance to the toxicity common on mainstream social media platforms, including Reddit. So we're safe from a lot of the problems that larger subreddits have to deal with. But there are some excellent niche communities there that would fit in very nicely with the Fediverse.

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