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.
There are facts and there are opinions. There are plenty of different opinions here in a lot of topics. But people largely agree on some basic facts, like, you know, vaccines work, the earth is a globe and the Trump administration is incompetent and corrupt. Pretty much all of “conservative” thought these days consists of denying basic, easily verifiable facts and replacing them with phantasms. We get some of that here too but luckily it’s not very prevalent.
I could argue that one of your facts is subjective: the Trump administration is only incompetent based on your reference frame. Now, it is a morally bankrupt reference frame where they are competent (they’re very competent at normalizing the corruption), but still, they’ve proven quite competent in reaching their set goal so far.