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.
Not all different opinions are troll opinions
Correct, but the troll infested discourse in other places polarize everything on purpose to sow discord in society. In Real Life people really are better at voicing different opinions without it looking like pure hatred.
But you’re placing the entire lack of diverse opinions on the lack of trolls, which is wrong because it assigns all diverse opinions as troll opinions. Really I think you’re just answering a different question than OP asked to frame it as a positive for the fediverse, which doesn’t address the actual concerns. As you say, real life people are better at voicing different opinions, and this isn’t an ad-supported network, so where are the non-troll different opinions?
I also gotta disagree with the idea that the fediverse is adverse to “user number go up!” mentality, the most common response to me saying a post is off topic or low quality or something is “it doesn’t matter because we need more content to attract more users!”
There are plenty of diverse opinions here. You just don’t recognize them as such since they’re expressed respectfully instead of polarizing.
So is that your response to OP’s question then? They’re wrong about seemingly everyone agreeing because they are mistaking respect for agreement? They mention wanting to see dissenting opinions respectfully, so I don’t think that’s the case. They are talking about how the majority seems to be on the same wavelength, not that there is a lack of polarization. Again it seems like you have an answer to a question OP didn’t ask (“Why aren’t there more trolls and tribalism on the fediverse?”) because that’s what you want to talk about instead.
It’s your assumption that I’m not right. That’s fine.
Your first phrase says op places the Entire lack of diversity on the lack of trolls. That’s quite black and white view from your part IMO.
Sometimes we have the tankie trolls here on lemmy too, and sometimes back in the day I had good discussions on reddit, nothing is usually 100% or 0% in those cases