Discussion is difficult. This place feels like a club sometimes, and if you don’t subscribe to the exact same ideals, you just get shouted down. I’m here for discussion, and dissenting opinions, but it just isn’t allowed to exist here.
To add on to this; Smugness is rampant. It reminds me of Linux user Groups in college. More than half the time was spent shitting on Windows (Reddit), and if you dared to ask a question you were ridiculed for not knowing it, or people who put more effort into telling you to look it up yourself than it would take to answer you in the first place. I can echo the same club mentality as I’ve on more than one occasion described why a particular political idea isn’t viable based on votes in Congress only to be dismissed without any counter argument as “I don’t understand _____”. So there really is no discussion, it’s essentially just shitposting and piling on, and if I liked that I would have stayed on Facebook.
Yeah I had a few times where I’d take a week off just because I didn’t want to be angry looking at my inbox full of furious 18 year old trans tankies defending Stalin/Xi
To be fair that was true on Reddit too. And is true on spaces such as twitter as well. I think it’s just a symptom to anonymity that people treat each harshly and consider others’ views less than their own. There are just trigger topics you have to avoid because there doesn’t exist an online platform where productive discourse is going to happen.
It was similar, but on reddit there was enough people to occasionally get someone interested in genuine discussion. This comment chain is the most productive conversation I’ve had on Lemmy. In fact it’s the only one.
Discussion is difficult. This place feels like a club sometimes, and if you don’t subscribe to the exact same ideals, you just get shouted down. I’m here for discussion, and dissenting opinions, but it just isn’t allowed to exist here.
To add on to this; Smugness is rampant. It reminds me of Linux user Groups in college. More than half the time was spent shitting on Windows (Reddit), and if you dared to ask a question you were ridiculed for not knowing it, or people who put more effort into telling you to look it up yourself than it would take to answer you in the first place. I can echo the same club mentality as I’ve on more than one occasion described why a particular political idea isn’t viable based on votes in Congress only to be dismissed without any counter argument as “I don’t understand _____”. So there really is no discussion, it’s essentially just shitposting and piling on, and if I liked that I would have stayed on Facebook.
We need more kind diverse people.
At this point, I don’t even care if they’re kind, I just want discussion.
I often delete comments before I even post them, knowing that it just isn’t worth it most of the time.
I cringe when I see new messages. Aw fuck, who did I piss off now?
This comment chain has given me multiple bouts if anxiety for the exact same reason. Thankfully everyone is being nice so far.
Yeah I had a few times where I’d take a week off just because I didn’t want to be angry looking at my inbox full of furious 18 year old trans tankies defending Stalin/Xi
Deleting before I post is something I’ve done too. Sometimes you just need to type it up, but it doesn’t need to be sent. I get it.
Let’s start. Windows 2000 when came out had more scalable networking than Linux.
To be fair that was true on Reddit too. And is true on spaces such as twitter as well. I think it’s just a symptom to anonymity that people treat each harshly and consider others’ views less than their own. There are just trigger topics you have to avoid because there doesn’t exist an online platform where productive discourse is going to happen.
It was similar, but on reddit there was enough people to occasionally get someone interested in genuine discussion. This comment chain is the most productive conversation I’ve had on Lemmy. In fact it’s the only one.