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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Still means she's on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

So are an insanely large amount of people.

I don’t think people on here realise that we are in an echo chamber ourselves and often times not very forgiving of people with differing opinions, where I would assume we should want to bring people to our point of view by being accepting and trying to educate on our beliefs.

So in this echo chamber of what 50K MAUs it can sometimes be hard to keep sight of the fact we are the smallest of minorities in this space and what we see is absolutely not a representation of what most people in the world care about.

I’ve never used Twitter but I’m not going to shit on other people for using it.

Were you on Reddit when they had loads of jailbait subs? Would you like to labelled as part of that same group just because you shared the same space?

Does it not seem reasonable that some people might use Twitter as a means to keep in the loop and not isolate from the crazies, Nazis, bigots or whatever. You can’t converse with the other side if you ain’t where they are at and if we all stay in our own echo chambers what are we really achieving other than a self-righteous circle jerk?

To be abundantly clear I am including myself in this too and not just calling you out. But this place is exhausting at times, I am the most cynical person I know and this place really gives me a run for my money at times. Even in the less serious stuff, like you can’t oppose Linux here you’ll be downvoted to shit for even having a different opinion. You have to use FOSS everything, and you should even be eating open source food 😂

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Twitter is just shit though. Why are you even trying to defend it? Same as Facebook, I can't see shit there without an account.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m not trying to defend, I was reasoning why people would still use it and trying to start a discussion.

Why did you focus on that aspect of my quite long comment and not try to engage with any of the points I made?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i had a frikkin point and now i've been sidetracked and seriously? twitter???

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

tl;dr, but I still think displaying mild disgust at anyone who uses twitter today is the correct reaction

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not just Linux, but you obviously have to use the correct distro of it, which obviously is...

correctAre you shitting me right now, why would you click that!? Allow me to explain in this 50 part manifesto why I am so very smart and everyone else is beneath me...

That said, X is legit an Alt-Right Nazi bar. Even as we here are an Alt-Left one. I suppose it simply comes with the territory.:-|

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Aww I wanted to hear your Linux opinions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If Spez had given a Nazi salute and taken over the US government, I would have left.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That’s your prerogative, but I wonder if you see the danger of all people online splitting into their own groups?

The way I see it is you have a place just filled with say Nazis then they’re never going to learn or understand different perspectives and they’re going to become more radical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So we have lemmy.ml. they don't seem to learn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

But how do you know that some people haven’t changed their views from coming up against counter arguments?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Actually, there are only a few hundred people on Twitter. The rest are bots.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

And you're on Lemmy. Most people have their echo chamber of choice.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's a really bad argument given one of those chambers is literally run by, and full of, nazis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Plenty of fascists on Lemmy. They're just not well known billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, both sides are not the same. There is a way higher percentage on Twitter and it's centrally controlled by one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Both sides? Good grief. Not everything has to be a you vs them. And of course there is a higher number on Twitter. They have, what, 300 million active users? And Lemmy is probably .001% of that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks? By making that statement I'm sure you know the exact percentage. Feel free to provide it. I'd be interested to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It's bullshit that you claim it's a higher percentage than the one I provided, but don't actually know what it is? Look man, if you're just giving your opinion, that's fine. Just say so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Luckily it's federated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I mean this one is run mostly by people who agree with what is being said in the echo chamber too.

Though the architecture of the Fediverse does make it impossible for it to become as bad as the commercial ones.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

That’s like saying “everyone has a hobby” when you witness someone picking fights in public. Some hobbies and spaces are objectively worse than others.