Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy?

• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then your problem is not diversity. Why do you act like it is?

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Views to the right of centre are almost entirely missing from Lemmy so the problem is lack of diversity.

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      • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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      • msage@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What ‘right of centre’ views do you seek?

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• TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You know you’re allowed to make comments in threads challenging people if you think their comments are too one sided?

  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.

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  • Azzu@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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