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You know you're allowed to make comments in threads challenging people if you think their comments are too one sided?
If you suspect there is an unexplored side to something, you can ask about that, and you'll very likely get an answer, at least as far as I've seen. But usually if no one does that then yeah, like you say, you'll only see "one side".
You don't have to be a passive observer, you can get the discussion you want by guiding it.
Saying "I'd like to hear a different perspective" is generally interpreted by others as "Your perspective is wrong" and then the assumptions begin, which lead to accusations and bickering.
I was speaking of something substantial and specific, not just some abstract stuff. For example, idk, "why not halt all arms deliveries to Ukraine? We need the weapons/money ourselves. I.e. some actual question about the topic. Because if you can't form a question like that, then it doesn't even make sense really to "hear a different perspective" as this different perspective will have no meaning for you.
But it seems anyway, after reading OPs responses to this thread, that they don't really care about diverse viewpoints, just about their own viewpoints not being disregarded/dismissed/argued against.
It gets quite tiring after a while that instead of having to defend the point you're trying to make you instead have to defend yourself as a person. Ad-hominem is what a huge portion of active commentors here reach for when ever someone says something that they disagree with.
But then your problem does not seem to be diversity. Why do you act like it is?
Views to the right of centre are almost entirely missing from Lemmy so the problem is lack of diversity. Or perhaps I should say one of the problems. Incivility on social media on the other hand is not an issue unique to Lemmy.
People right of centre usually have no problem at all with companies like Reddit behaving like it is, like going for an IPO etc, so they haven't attempted to switch off it yet. I'd just go back to reddit if you want to see these right-wing viewpoints. You haven't really explained why you don't want to go back, it seems suited to solve your problem.
What 'right of centre' views do you seek?
What does it matter to you?
Because that's what you seek, and I want to understand you and help you if I can, perhaps even provide a nuanced opinion on such view.