No one is actually going to post a controversial opinion in this thread, because lemmy is just as bad as reddit at cultivating groupthink, if not worse.
Also, while unfettered capitalism certainly deserves some criticism, anyone here criticising it is mostly just creating an untouchable boogeyman to blame for their problems so they don’t have to admit that they could actually be happy and successful if they tried. Anyone who was seriously trying to create a post-capitalist world would be organizing their neighbors in real life, and would rightly see lemmy as a waste of valueable time.
Is it really reddit and lemmy to blame, or is that just how groups of people… do? What else are we communicating for? Ideas meat other ideas, they interfere destructively and constructively, and new consensus is built. Repeat.
To an extent, yes. But also there is the issue of the structure of the voting system. Contrast this to other options, like oldschool forums or stackoverflow.
On stack, the format encourages solving problems - in particular, the problem the question-asker asked. Even if there is some group-think about the “right” way to solve a problem, the question asker ultimately gets to mark the answer that solved their problem, regardless of group approval.
On a traditional forum, even if there was a voting system, there was no heirarchical comment structure and comments weren’t hidden based on popularity. So you had to scroll past every comment, including the ones you disagreed with, and you would typically have to read that comment to understand the whole discussion that was happening.
No one is actually going to post a controversial opinion in this thread, because lemmy is just as bad as reddit at cultivating groupthink, if not worse.
Also, while unfettered capitalism certainly deserves some criticism, anyone here criticising it is mostly just creating an untouchable boogeyman to blame for their problems so they don’t have to admit that they could actually be happy and successful if they tried. Anyone who was seriously trying to create a post-capitalist world would be organizing their neighbors in real life, and would rightly see lemmy as a waste of valueable time.
Well duh! When your objectively correct opinions are just different versions of you loving [REDACTED]
Is it really reddit and lemmy to blame, or is that just how groups of people… do? What else are we communicating for? Ideas meat other ideas, they interfere destructively and constructively, and new consensus is built. Repeat.
To an extent, yes. But also there is the issue of the structure of the voting system. Contrast this to other options, like oldschool forums or stackoverflow.
On stack, the format encourages solving problems - in particular, the problem the question-asker asked. Even if there is some group-think about the “right” way to solve a problem, the question asker ultimately gets to mark the answer that solved their problem, regardless of group approval.
On a traditional forum, even if there was a voting system, there was no heirarchical comment structure and comments weren’t hidden based on popularity. So you had to scroll past every comment, including the ones you disagreed with, and you would typically have to read that comment to understand the whole discussion that was happening.