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.
We don’t need conservative viewpoints here, we have them at every other space outside of here and are bombarded with them daily while being subjected to live under them.
If more conservative instances started opening, I would defederate from them.
In Canada, conservatives were some of the first to call out the cost of living crisis.
Folks on the (institutional) left ignored and derided them. But it turns out they were right - lower and middle class people were hurting. We chose not to listen, and ceded the issue. That gave the Conservatives their best electoral showing in the last federal election.
Similar things happened in Ontario with supervised drug use sites. A bunch of residents near the drug sites had problems with crime and vagrancy. The lefty echo chamber ignored their concerns, so the conservatives ran with it. Now we’re losing safe injection sites.
Shutting out differing points of view doesn’t make problems go away. It just gives us a blind spot. And that gives right leaning parties the opportunity to build public support.
I really doubt that, and I suspect by left you mean more akin to a right wing US Liberal type? I cannot think of a minute where actual leftists have not rallied against neoliberalism, capitalism, exploitation, and poverty.
And because conservatives lied, that’s the lefts fault? Data shows that injection sites in Canada led to reduced crime in their neighbourhoods. But it’s easier for the right to make a scapegoat instead of follow data.
Filtering out misinformation and right wing viewpoints helps solve the problem of misinformation and right wing viewpoints being spread. Which is the root cause of both of your issues.
That’s a great illustration of why we need more diverse views on Lemmy.
You’re right, some data supports your view. But there are a bunch of people living near safe injection sites who were having a shitty time. Both can be true at once, and dismissing the experience of people living in the situation pushes people away from us, and into the arms of the right.
Lefties (like you and me) ignoring people who are suffering because of well-meaning policy that needs to be improved is entirely the fault of the left.
This is why we need more perspectives on Lemmy: we aren’t always right, and even when we are, lefty policy occasionally doesn’t work. If the left doesn’t hear about it and fix it, the right will.
Agreed probably, I’d really need examples of conservatives disagreeing productively instead of destructively because I don’t think that’s a thing.