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Am i the only one who feels like it's the same handful of users posting and commenting on lemmy? (lemmy.world)

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At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven't even been on lemmy that long.

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[-] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I can’t speak to Lemmy specifically but my Reddit years were ages 15-30. I think I got my fill of arguing on the internet then.

I write a lot of comments on Lemmy that I end up deleting before posting because I just don’t want the hassle of arguing with someone about it who is being deliberately obtuse or arguing in bad faith.

That’s not an indictment of Lemmy specifically, but I think my lack of interest in those arguments comes with age and I suspect my story isn’t unique, the demographics will line up for a lot of Lemmy users.

[-] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

That’s not an indictment of Lemmy specifically

For me this is a major, glaring problem with Lemmy. The obtuse and bad faith arguments are a constant problem here. Some of the things that get upvoted are wildly wrong, openly biased, and would be ridiculed in most other settings.

If not for instances like Lemmy.ml and hexbear it wouldn't be so bad, but even if they disappeared, the Lemmy user base is an echochamber that's out of touch with reality.

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

How so? Can you list some examples of upvoted things that are wildly wrong?

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