Post #1903799

2026-01-15 07:45 UTC

I dont think more users is very important. Its not going to make Lemmy change from mostly memes anyway. The mentality of the largest Lemmy instances is still to moderate away opinions they dont agree with, so this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly. Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted. But we can all enjoy memes together. :) Its kind of nice. Lemmy is chill and easy. Even kid friendly.

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@JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 2026-01-15 12:04

this place is never going to be good for any discussions where people disagree strongly. Most users downvote what they dont agree with. Its a circle jerk echo chamber where we all agree or get downvoted. So true, and so sad. This has been such a disappointment to me, and even a bit of a surprise. I just didn’t realize how badly most people respond to seeing viewpoints they don’t fully share. Personally I don’t get the point of discussion where everyone agrees, but apparently that is quite a rare attitude. So I share your pessimism, but with one glimmer of hope. There is at least one forum which has cracked this problem: Hacker News. The issue being that it’s frequented by exactly the kind of techie Spock-like personalities that aren’t representative of the general population.

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