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It doesn’t help that one of the main instances will outright delete comments for being pro capitalism and the users of said instance will downvote any comment that doesn’t get removed but isn’t anti capitalist enough.

But the so called tankie triad is reviled enough that I would say it is actually proof of diversity of thought. There are conservative communities and instances but for the most part they don’t get much engagement because the content is usually pretty low quality even if it gets seen at all as many people will block or instances will defederate from those types of hosts.

I would consider myself more right wing than most users on the fediverse but even I don’t have much desire to engage with MAGA/fascist right wing content.

I don’t "worry" about it. I accept that it is. It's just the nature of humans and social groups. Can't do much about it. What you can do is increase your number of sources to gain the other perspectives.

I live in south currently and it feels like IRL is the echo chamber.

I genuinely did not know there are americans actually opposed to Israel until I came to lemmy. And I especially did not know it was a big group.

No. I see idiots arguing about the tiniest possible things on here. Actually no clue what you are on about.

Yeah it absolutely would benefit from a wider range of opinions. That's why a large portion of my comments are "against the grain", I don't see the value of reinforcing prevailing opinions in an echo chamber. I hope that as Lemmy grows we will see more diverse opinions, but what I think is more likely is that the hard-core leftist part of Lemmy will sort of secede and defederate so they can preserve their echo chamber while the rest of lemmy gets taken over by "normies"

No. I'm perfectly secure in my absolute hatred and rejection of bigotry and violence.

One reason you're noticing a homogeneity of opinions on here is the fact that Lemmy isn't botted like larger social networks. Larger networks have bots farms pushing all sorts of narratives for various reasons, and the one thing they accel at is finding people to argue with.

You are also certainly in a bubble on Lemmy. You have to know it exists and care enough to use it over other platforms. Most people choose the path of least resistance.

I don't know what your talking about. I'm very active on Lemmy, precisely because there is a lot of actual debate.

What I don't get, that Reddit had a LOT of, is trolls, bots, novelty accounts, puns, and especially Russian Propaganda Farmers who are just showing up to argue for the sake of arguing.

I also don't get a lot of MAGA trolls. Debate is one thing, but anybody who is still sticking by MAGA at this point is a truly sick person, and I'd rather not have to engage with psychopaths, thank you. I don't have anything good or polite to say to them, and they can't be moved by logic or morality, so what's the point? They just want to cause problems, because they think that's entertaining.

This isn't a fucking poll. It's a website with a bunch of jackasses on it. You want better sampling start poking for your opinions instead of shitting them out on whatever social media site.

Actually, I sometimes get lots of downvotes in things I think I see pretty clearly. So I understand what you mean but still I see some controversy.

This has uh, not been my experience.

Yes, these are very valid concerns. Maybe start first with some controversial opinion?

What levels of diversity are you expecting? I am here exactly to avoid the extreme polar opposite diversity many mainstream platforms offer. I see people agreeing and disagreeing but they are still having some common ground which enables the disagreement to look civil. Considering the mainstream social media this can look like a lack of diversity, but it's actually how it is supposed to be in a civilized world...

This makes me worried that I'm in some sort of echo chamber

You are. Just consider how small the amount of people knowing about lemmy is, now take the ones who are interested in it (over using something like reddit) and now pick the ones who are technically capable to register an account. Those are us, those who have gone through this selection process.

hatred is minimal here

Great point, I agree with you!

Express yourself. Fuck everyone else's opinions and correctness, value yours until it's defeated. It's not rare that what is generally perceived as correct, is still wrong. Turn off the voting system and express yourself without worrying about numbers, focus in the arguments.