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Is anybody else worried about the lack of diverse opinion here? (feddit.online)

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Just to clarify, I don't think it's a problem that hatred is minimal here, and I don't just mean politics.

I feel like I very rarely see alternative opinions about anything, whether it be software, ai, news about companies, etc. it just seems like everyone universally agrees about anything with only a tiny handful of exceptions.

It makes me hesitant to believe I'm on the "correct side" and I never see any arguments from opposition. This makes me worried that I'm in some sort of echo chamber. In real life, I do see much more diverse opinions and, if I only used the fediverse for social media, would likely be weaker in defending my own since their arguments would be "new" to me.

I understand the reasons for which the fediverse has pretty collective opinion, but it does still worry me. I want to be able to see all the other people with their own thoughts (given it's respectful) on the Internet, which should be the most capable tool to do so.

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[-] tangible@piefed.social 2 points 10 hours ago

I'm also seeing a lot of reasonable, even-handed takes on AI getting upvoted in that thread, tbh. The most downvoted comment is one saying that "AI is fascism".

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's only because being contrary is kind of the point of the thread. Anywhere else and these posts would be getting shredded.

[-] Waveform@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah it course corrected a little bit but it did not start out very well. The brainless, misrepresented link dump is the highest voted one. As people pointed out, link dumps like that are straight from alt right playbook. The one reply that called out the issues got removed by mods and it was heavily downvoted initially (actually the timing and amount of upvotes and downvotes in those two comments, and how it evened out makes me think someone was vote manipulating when the link dump was posted). One of the comments from the link dump user was calling the debunker an eugenicist too and that got way too many upvotes off the bat than makes sense to me.

Like I said, there's diversity of opinion but some users, instances have pretty terminally online, black and white opinions that lead to downvote burials. And for a lot of people, that does signal "this is what I should think/this is what I shouldn't think". If it's not the case for you personally, cool. But black and white thinking is so much easier and upvotes/downvotes play right into that.

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