New to Lemmy and I quit reddit years ago and I remembered that r/conservatives was hostile to me for voicing my politics certain other subreddit made fun of me if I was wrong. I’m newish to the fediverse. I’m digging mastodon even though I never did Twitter
Most of Lemmy was extremely hostile during the US elections but that has mostly passed.
I had a fun time trying to explain why I voted for stien, I had to tell people the president part of the ballot is the one I have the least impact on and If people were to convince me not vote stien that is leave that part blank
Yeah so you’ll generally find lemmy users to be quite hostile to your political position. I’m grown up enough not to be “hostile” but to be frank I think your voting choices are very poorly considered.
To your broader question. Lemmy is just like any other platform. If you say silly things people will rebut you. There is no respect for contrary opinions.
I’ve found that lemmy communities tend to be very homogeneous and in many threads if you offer any insights which are not breathless support you’ll be heavily downvoted and get vitriolic responses, or banned.
For example, saying anything critical of China in a .ml thread will result in a ban.
For example, saying anything critical of China in a .ml thread will result in a ban.
Just to clarify this point: they mean that mindless reddit style jingoism will get you banned; reasonable criticism is fine.
That’s not what I meant at all.
There’s plenty of examples of .ml mods banning users for reasonable criticism.
There really isn’t
If you arent homophobic, transphobic, anti-communist, in support of china or russia, in support of israel, religious, in support of non-opensource software, against linux, calling a lot of people nazis, or against murdering, then probably
I agree with most of these, but sometimes it feels like you cant disagree with people without them becoming angry
Lol I have pointed out that Russia hasn’t dropped nuke in Ukraine but America has dropped nukes on Japan.
Leave it, only the Americans know what to do and progressive Europe… The rest of the Russians, the Chinese are stupid animals for them who can’t do anything, don’t know and shouldn’t know! So…
Is this sincere? I’m curious if people are sinophobic or anti Russian.
I’m 99% sure its sarcasm.