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How valid is the claim that people coming or going to blue sky/mastodon/X/Truth Social will cause echo chambers to increase? is it bad? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can probably post on 7.62x54r.ru. Reddit had a decent number of anti-establishment leftists who would join up with conservatives on shared issues. I haven't seen any spaces like that on Lemmy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, and that's something I missed about Reddit. I found a few good communities of centrists, open minded leftists, and open minded conservatives, so I could generally join a pretty good discussion. I still needed to watch what I said, because there were some things even open minded people wouldn't consider given their political bias, but a lot of things were fair game.

For example, I could bring up Right to Repair to both groups, and I'd get different reasons for and against it from each group.

Here on Lemmy, I don't get that diversity, either something is compatible with the group's general leftist persuasion, or I get downvoted into oblivion. And that sucks, because I put in a lot of effort to be constructive and challenge the status quo. Fortunately, I usually know before making a statement which way it'll go, and there are no downsides (aside from worse engagement) to getting down votes, so I know what to expect. It does make me sad though.

I'll check out that community though. Not sure what to expect from a .ru domain though as an American...