I was banned from News for acting too Republican, and now I am not given the option to block the community. It’s like 90% Trump posts, and I just want to talk about cats or something without hearing about my annoying president.
I was banned from News for acting too Republican, and now I am not given the option to block the community. It’s like 90% Trump posts, and I just want to talk about cats or something without hearing about my annoying president.
Thanks. I figured I’d be blocked eventually because the opinions on that sub were so homogeneous, but it would have been fucked up if I had to make a new account to block the sub that banned me.
… it’s just baffling to me. Dissenting opinions are a good thing. Echo chambers aren’t healthy for the people in them. It’s just weird how the opinions of the people I know are so different than the opinions of people on the internet. It’s like I live in an alternate reality.
I have not checked your mod log and I won’t because… I just don’t care (you’re a stranger anyway, lol). However, personally, I consider Lemmy a Reddit 2.0 but then more into technology.
You will get banned or blocked for the most random thing or having a slightly different opinion these days. The world has just become that divided.
That’s why I recommend to just block and avoid every political and news communities.
…this was actually a positive experience. My All feed is completely different after excluding that one particular community. It feels less like I’m surrounded by bots and more like an active platform.
I didn’t check but “dissenting opinions” can easily just be manipulative disinfo that will direct the least intellectually competent one way or another. No, takes that are close to reality are valid and useful, and attitudes that are prosocial and virtues are the only ones worth having, everything else is incomplete/trash.
Idk what you said in those online spaces, I didn’t click the links, honestly, so don’t think I’m coming for you personally. But two things are not the same just because they’re in the same category (sure, poop IS edible but it’s not the same as spaghetti bolognaise), and takes and attitudes aren’t all worth the same, and I’d rather have a “closed community” of diverse righteous folks sharing things competently truthfully than have to share it with amoral beasts and the offensively mentally challenged.