Yeah, in that manor it’s somewhat like Reddit. Even if you have a clear and explained opinion that isn’t the narrarive the masses are trying to push you get down voted into oblivion. Once you get a few down votes, then everyone just goes with the mob mentality that it’s automwticqlly bad regardless.

An example would be abortion. I’m pro choice, but I could see how you could argue pro life as a valid opinion, even though I don’t agree with it. I’d get lambasted because I’m not hard pushing that pro life is the worst thing in the world ect.

Lemmy reflects real life, I taught for 20+ years and I can tell you in my experience most people think they’re incredibly smart and have the solution to everything. Once you challenge them with a valid question or give any pushback, you’re called racist, fascist, islamiphobe, ect usually because they’re just repeating something they heard from someone, possibly a lot smarter than them (sometimes not), and they never really formed that idea/opinion on their own and don’t actually understand it beyond parroting it.