#First and foremost, let me say that I appreciate you actually engaging in a real discussion on Lemmy!
Why did I make this community? Well, mostly in response to the rest of Lemmy and the way many otherwise interesting discussion threads fall apart into downvoting and groupthink.
I don’t like people making baseless accusations. I defend people on all sides when people are wrong about their opposition. I hate it when people think they know what others think and project incorrect (and often evil) bullshit on each other. It’s important to be correct with solid reasoning and conclusions, not just one or the other.
I hate people being wilfully wrong because their group fetishizes a certain angle of the truth instead of the boring reality of the situation.
Ideas are important and I don’t feel we can get out of the current shitty slump we’re in with political discourse unless we clearly speak about and discuss the world.
So let's talk like people. What do you want to talk about?
Not great. Sort of lost my will to post after a bunch of experiments over at [email protected]
If I post pure questions in the weekly thread, the only people that respond are the few that can articulate things in detail.
If I post questions with some opinion added because people respond more frequently to those (even if I do not believe the opinion), we get scads of aggressive comments and downvotes which buries the thread quickly.
To top that off, if I respond in other threads in Lemmy, I get people digging up the weekly threads (or responses therein) and trying to use those as ammunition against me. It's super disheartening.