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.

  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    There are 2 opposing emotional-motivations to understand…

    1. the default assumption-river/prejudice/religion/ideology homogenousness is comforting
    2. Science’s competitive-diversity-of-opinion-for-sake-of-FINDING-Truth culture.

    The default, comfort-seeking, results in filter-bubbles.

    The latter can win, but it takes a WEIRD population, who really buys-in to it, to make it work well.

    Any population who does make that work, can out-think & out-innovate the comfort/inertia cultivating cultures.

    Especially in times of chaos, where autopilot reacts on one’s behalf.

    Contributions consistently downvoted, are shown at the bottom of the page, so you may need to intentionally-scroll-down to see the diversity-of-opinion required for robust-knowing.

    ( & some of us, like me, remove our auto-upvote, because I want to see the ACTUAL reaction of others, & not the distorted-by-self-esteem-candy pseudo-view )

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