Do you think the mostly limited range of political views is a strength or a weakness of Lemmy? (For example, in terms of attracting new users.) (feddit.nl)

submitted 6 days ago by crimeschneck@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Sure, there are always outliers and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just the overall impression I have.

(I wasn't sure if !asklemmy@lemmy.world or this community would fit better for this kind of question, but I assume it fits here.)

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[-] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 10 points 6 days ago

Weakness, definitely. The range of "permitted" ideas is way too narrow.
I tend to agree with most common political stances on Lemmy, but still I feel I'm self-censoring occasionally.

Many instances intentionally want an echo chamber. Posts and comments are often deleted even if they're not abusive, if they are ideologically opposed.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 14 points 6 days ago

What ideas do you want to see more of?

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The problem doesn't seem to be that instances want to cater to a unique political group (that's why we have federation) It's that most instances cater to the same or similar groups. I think in general it's better that instances are differentiated by political beliefs. For example, i don't like Hexbear. I just block it. But if hexbear and solarpunk were a single instance, i wouldn't be able to separate the good and the bad.

But i agree that separating yourself too much from other ideas is bad, and echo chambers are bad in general.