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I do think it feels insular/hostile, though my take is different than yours. Yes, I've had some folks nitpick posts and one up, though I imagine you get that in many similar social media sites -- there're reasons for the running joke that in order to get a correct answer online, you gotta post a question as a woman, and confidently answer it wrong on a male account, and then people will pile on with correct answers and judgey-ments.
Many of the sites that seem to get posted to lemmy are on VERY fringey locations, locations that often seem highly likely to be hosting malicious content. There's also far fewer people posting topics, with a very small group of users having like 10k+ posts per year. So it feels a lot more 'concentrated', especially on particular subjects, due to those posters' bias': if you're an aggressive poster, it's fairly easy to astroturf lemmy. Which feels insular / bubbly.
Adding to that, Lemmy has mods who are just as heavy-handed as on Reddit or any other heavily moderated setup -- though lemmy'll moderate things in a far more 'progressive' friendly way than most alternatives these days. Pejoratives are allowed for some groups, but not others. Even calling that sort of thing out in more explicit terms, though still in a neutral tone, can get you banned from many communities on Lemmy.
yep. a lot of the communities are just incessantly spammed by a handful of users, who post dozens and dozens of times per day. and they are often motivated by political agendas to push certain narratives and silence others, and if they are mods, yes they will silence anything that doesn't support their worldview.
and yes, lots of groups are free to hate and wish violence upon, and others are totally sacred and you can't even be remotely critical of them... and if you suggest that everyone is just humans... well you're a hateful bigot then. If you don't subscribe to the 'x people are superior to y people' notion, you MUST be one of the y people.
Agreed. I've voted center-left in pretty well every election of my adult life. Generally in favour of a socially progressive / fiscally conservative approach irl. Donated to green party campaigns. Was a card carrying member of Greenpeace for years. But on Lemmy, when I express a generally neutral viewpoint on a topic, and/or don't support hard-left positions, I'll be accused of being a right-wing republican nutjob who's destroying America and supporting Trump and crew's agenda. Even more amusing in that I'm Canadian, make no attempts to hide that fact, and am vocally part of the "don't buy american stuff" crowd.
Well, you are getting downvoted and it's probably because "liberal" or centrist viewpoints are seen a bit like skeet shooting for some of the hard left on here. They seek ideological purity and are looking for a safe space.
But you know life is full of dogmatists eh. Some of them need blocking, and some of them need mocking. And some you can actually have a discussion with.
the root of ideological purity is personal insecurity