Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.
Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.
Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.
You’re on the fediverse. You are your own algorithm. What you see is what you chose to follow or what’s on the instance you signed up to. Either way, you ended up there by choice. If this is a thing you notice after only a few days, you are not qualified to predict the doom and gloom of Lemmy. Work on your feed first.
You’ll find biased communities on here. You’ll find reasonable ones. But you need to go look for them. It’s just as echo-chambery here like anywhere else on the internet.
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The “town square” is former Xwitter marketing to give it relevance, which you could say it had until the son of South African emerald miners got involved. It was due to especially media types being fond of that platform. News broke there, hashtags trended, movements started. That’s gone now.
Lemmy isn’t that. It’s a fediverse place to find mostly niche content for people who got fed up with reddit.
Anything with unlimited, anonymous accounts is not a true town square. It’s real easy to manufacture consensus with a bit of effort.
On LW it’s mixed, leaning more West, because we’re not federated with hexbear or lemmygrad. We are, for some reason, federated with .ml.