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I experience Lemmy as a reflection of many of the problems in the world; there seems to be little effort to understand and respect different viewpoints. Instead of being curious about opinions one disagrees with, the community often feels almost aggressive. People end up in their own trenches. What about trying to be more open and curious about our differences instead?

Apparently we believe in freedom of speech—so long as the speech is something we agree with....

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

usually whenever someone complains about this sort of thing, it's because they got told off for espousing fascist bullshit, so please, elaborate for us.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Discrediting what someone says by questioning their underlying motives instead of engaging with the actual content is called ad hominem. Along with strawmanning, it's probably the number-one logical fallacy poisoning online discourse - and likely a major reason this whole discussion even started in the first place.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

I checked OP's post history, expecting to find a bunch of offensive stuff in there, but I didn't see anything egregious in the first page. *shrug* And I'm not going to bother with digging deeper.

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's definitely intolerant of any OS that is non-linux

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the contrary, I believe everyone here holds a special place in their heart for TempleOS, even if it's not a practical choice. Also most everyone here has mad respect for anyone rocking some other niche nerd shit like FreeBSD or ReactOS etc. (I do, anyways)

Mostly it's just that Windows has sucked for at least a decade and macOS is just starting on its suck arc.

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree Windows sucks, just pointing out an intolerance! I think no matter what social we go on it will eventually become an echo chamber and people will be intolerant as their hatred grows.

Another example is AI. Lemmy is intolerant of AI outside of AI specific communities, but go to LinkedIn and you have people circlejerking over how great their vibe coding is.

Back when Reddit made it's API change and I moved to Lemmy, it felt like people were still getting a feeling of things, there would be more discussion on subjects. As time is going on I'm seeing discussion around subject diminish. I guess it could have been because there was less posts? Or could it be as time has gone on people have become less tolerant of things Lemmy generally doesn't like?

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure, but you said intolerance for any non-Linux OS, and that's just simply not true as there are several non-Linux OS's we love. If you were to say Lemmy is intolerant specifically of Windows, that would be more accurate, but I'm also aware of at least one subset of die-hard Windows aficionados on Lemmy who vehemently hate Linux. Definitely a minority, but they're there.

Also, the db0 instance is pro-AI as I recall, so anyone who's keen on that sort of thing is (to my knowledge) welcome there.

[–] Schal330@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah fair enough, you're right, I should have been specific in saying Windows and MacOS.

I believe the point still remains that intolerances exist on Lemmy.