1 yr. ago • 60%

Building an echo chamber alone is hard.

Almost feel sorry for this guy, working so hard to create an echo chamber all by themselves.

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That community should be renamed “links to the craziest and most unfounded shit I can find” but that doesn’t have the same ring as “conservative”

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- "Do you suffer from an increasing lack of Copium? Tired of being asked to take personal accountability or put critical thought into your opinions? Come to Conservative where it's always the Liberals' fault!"
  
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  “Do you believe everything you read or hear on a podcast? Want to skip the hassle of thinking for yourself and be told how to feel about issues that don’t directly affect you? If you’re angry with nowhere to direct that rage, come to Conservative!”
  
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Please just stay on reddit on your "echo chambers" lmao

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This post has been up two minutes and I think already has more positive votes than any other post here. That should say something

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You would think being alone would make for some good echoes

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This and political compass memes

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The dude has to be a troll. No one has this little self-awareness. (speaking of @Optionhome)

Edit: Seems like the dude had enough and migrated to conservatives only

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- lol. That Colbert Report header graphic.
  
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- Have you taken a close look at conservative America lately?
  
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  Sadly yes. Thankfully only from far away as I live in Europe.
  
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- its gotta be. They've already had their own reddit replacement for years, no reason to come here other than to start a flame ware
  
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  They’ve already had their own reddit replacement for years
  
  but Stormfront pre-dates reddit
  
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Meta discussion - the existence of this post makes the wonder what moderation tools on lemmy are like? And if there's systems in place to deal with unwanted content.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/04-moderation.html

Users report posts & comments

Communities have mods

Instances have admins

Instances that disagree on how moderation should be done can block the other

Edit: Changed "unmoderated communities" to "unwanted content" to clarify my intent to discuss moderation in general
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- This community is moderated. We receive reports and will act on them if the reported content breaks the rules in the sidebar: there is no racism or bigotry, no personal insults, and u/stanleytweedle has not been spamming.
  
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  Oops, didn't mean to imply that the community wasn't moderated or that this post in particular was worthy of a ban. The post was slightly negative so it made me think about moderation. Thanks for your work!
  
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I almost feel sorry for the users who think brigading other people's communities is a worthwhile use of their time, let alone making political discourse any healthier.

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- It must be jarring leaving their bot/troll protected safe spaces of twitter/reddit and interacting with sane normal people.
  
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  I wonder how many are freaking trans 🤣
  
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Ironically by upvoting this post you are bumping the community to the top. It's free advertising

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- Yeah, but the community is filled with liberal posts anyway.
  
  It's basically becoming like r/FlatEarth, where they make fun of flat earthers.
  
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  literally the same exact concept
  
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  Please please please let this turn into a Reddit-like r/AnimeTitties situation. This was one of my favorite things about Reddit & the Internet in general.
  
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  That's how modern Flat Earthers started. People made up the conspiracy theory as a joke people would be too dumb to ever believe.
  
  And then...
  
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- When this was posted there was only the one guy, now there's like 30 and I bet it's cause of this post
  
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  I agree
  
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Do I really have to endure crazies here aswell?

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- You don't have to endure shit, maybe stop brigading other people's communities if you don't like them. You can't possibly willingly search up a community for an ideology you don't agree with, then complain about having to see them.
  
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  I mean, sure he can.
  
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- You can block users and there's a big red "Block Community" button at the top right.
  
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Yes, because liberals don't have their own echo chambers. /s

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- It truly is unfortunate that reality has a well-known liberal bias.
  
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  The bias of reality is non-binary.
  
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- Liberal echo chambers rant about human rights owed to people. Conservative echo chambers talk about how to remove human rights from individuals you don't like.
  
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  "remove human rights individuals you don't like"
  
  Would you mind giving some examples?
  
  Also, conservatives are not a monolith. Just like liberals, conservatives are not a monolith. Some are further from center than others. Some are much, much further away from center.
  
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- Like comparing the echo in a bathroom to the echo in the Grand Canyon.
  
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  bbbut bOtH SIdEs!
  
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I don't identify with either side, but don't act like liberals aren't guilty of the same thing. Both sides take for granted that they are right about everything.

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- a wild BothSides appears!
  
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  Because it is considered crazy to believe that both sides have valid points and downfalls in 2023 in the United States.
  
  This "Team Blue" and "Team Red" mentality where people pick a side and refuse to listen to anyone else is insane.
  
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- Ah the ole "both sides" argument. I have a feeling you do indeed identify as one. And if in 2023 liberals and conservatives look the same to you, that's a fault in you
  
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  Nope, I hate both sides for different reasons. Nice try though.
  
  Conservatives have based their identity around a narcissist and want to return to 1950 and strip away women's and LGBT rights. And America is not a Christian nation. It was founded on religious freedom, but none of them got the memo.
  
  Liberals got a guy who can't even form a sentence and shakes hands with ghosts into the white house. The press secretary is equally incompetent. Is that really the best they can do? Also, look at Roe v Wade. It got overturned because democrats didn't give enough of a shit about actually codifying things like abortion when they had 40 fucking years to do so.
  
  I believe in equal rights but am against government overreach. Both sides are right about different things, but the execution on both sides leaves me dumbfounded.
  
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And the left doesn't do the exact same thing?

As an anarchist I qualify as neither liberal or conservative (unless you view anarchism as the the ultimate conservatism, and some do).

I've found that I often learn things from my conservative friends if I'm actually willing to listen to what they have to say.

I've found that I often learn things from my liberal friend if I'm actually willing to listen to what they have to say.

Until we are all willing to get out of our echo chambers and listen to people who believe differently than we do, we are going to both stagnate and fragment as a society.

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- Why do people feel the need to sign up with an ideology in the first place? You know you can hold all your same beliefs without declaring meaningless solidarity with every other goon that chooses the same team name.
  
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  Everyone has an ideology, whether you realize or acknowledge it or not. That doesn't mean that everyone who subscribes to the same ideology has the same views on everything.
  
  People who consider themselves conservatives do exist, whether we like it or not. I much prefer them to be forced to be confronted with other views and opinions every now and then that challenge their worldview.
  
  Otherwise, they will go to some echochamber hosted by right wingers. This has already happened to the point where they basically live in a parallel universe and self-isolate. I don't think it's in anybody's interest for us to also encourage this self-isolation..
  
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- If you're an anarchist you're a leftist. Anarchism and (modern) conservatism are mutually exclusive philosophies.
  
  Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
  
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If you tried building an echo chamber alone, but as the 'other side' - it's actually really easy.

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Andy, on the other hand, is doing God's work.

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- We need an Andy for the MAGA one they just made as well
  
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  There's a few angels sprinkles in there now lol
  
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- Holy crap, he got banned for 3 years!
  
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  Conservatives, real bastions of free speech, huh?
  
  Oh, and I just noticed from the sidebar: "1. No racism or bigotry." Then what the hell else are they gonna talk about here?
  
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