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.
Prolly not a good idea. I’ve heard mods here are supposed to be as badly power tripping as on Reddit.
Power tripping on what little bit of power they might hold is a human thing. Not that it isn’t despicable, it’s just been around longer than the internet has existed, longer than society has existed even, I’d wager. It just used to involve physical power but now it involves social power or just bits on a server that say their account can control what other accounts do.
The only advantage of Lemmy is that you can get away from an admin abusing their power without leaving the platform entirely, so mods and admins teaming up doesn’t mean you can be silenced entirely on the platform like you can on the centralized ones like reddit or twitter.