I came here a few weeks ago after many years of reddit. Altogether I find discussions I enjoy, however, the posts and comments noticeably lean, well, tankie (I didn’t know that term before I came here). It’s not that I am looking for an echo chamber, but I also don’t want to spend my time reading propaganda. I’m really curious about a lot of things outside politics, as well as the opinions and arguments of reasonable people across the political spectrum, but I don’t want to listen to the boring canned lies of fascists and tankies. I realized that people celebrating communist dictators trigger me, and this is something I didn’t have to deal with before I started reading lemmy, I didn’t even know this type existed.
I also notice that accounts created just a few hours in advance come from other instances to brigade political posts. Because of how lemmy works, I can block individual users or communities, but not individual instances. Is there an instance that could be a “safe space” from this kind of brigading and tankie spam? Or a way to use the internet to read interesting things now that blogs died and then Reddit became whatever it became?

  • DarkFutureEnglish
    102·
    4 hours ago

    Refusing to even talk to people on the opposite end of the political spectrum just makes you another perpetuator of the massive political divide.

    Extremely bold of you to assume I haven’t spent the majority of my life talking to them and trying to understand their extremist views.

    I finally stopped because, as I said, they’ve lost the benefit of the doubt due to their own words and actions.

    How long would you entertain the opinions and actions of Nazis in the name of getting along?

    Also, if you think conservatives are going to start voting liberal if we play nice with them, well, you’re either very young or really haven’t been paying attention.