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I have had similar thoughts about early posts and upvotes and downvotes making people more unlikely to post even slightly differing opinions for fear of getting a negative number or something silly like that, but this seems like an issue with the platform in general and is only worse because we have a smaller community on Lemmy.
I was thinking it was subconscious but now I am wondering how many of them are just trying to get upvotes / likes / whatever lemmy calls them. Still my 2 posts make an interesting example of it but I want to figure out what causes this. I also think it is possible that people with differing opinions may just want to leave something alone to be non confrontational leading to a mini echo chamber.
Remember that many of the people here are ex-redditors and their first instinct is to be a shitty reply guy instead of Assuming Good Faith.
That is true. I am an ex redditor but only used Reddit because lemmy didn’t have enough users yet.
There is a huge herd mentality on here. You have to avoid certain topics, and I can't tell you what they are without getting downvoted. :)
People love their bubbles.
Drop the topics! Downvotes don't really matter on Lemmy, it's not a karma whoring platform.
I know school/work is. Anytime people talk about wanting privacy at school or work people start ranting about how you don’t have an expectation of privacy at school or work. If we lived in a world where you didn’t have an expectation of privacy on the toilet that wouldn’t make you wrong for wanting it.
That my dear, is patent bullshit. Anyone who does this is absolutely 100% WRONG and you should not be shy about it. Tell them to stfu and block them if needed.
You always have a basic expectation and right of privacy. What actually changes, is "what invasions of that privacy is common and accepted as necessary". 95% of the time you do have every right to be aggrieved, pissed, upset, and perfectly right to have a discussion about those rights being invaded.
Do not suffer fools who would shout you down to shut your objections down.