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.
I’m sorry but not one part of your comment shows any problem with lemmy. We’re using federated social media specifically so any instance/community can exist is a vacuum, and that includes those you do not agree with.
There are plenty of comms not having anything to do with politics that thrive, politically loaded content does slip into my feed and discussion is rarely uncivilised - on par with early reddit days.
This is exactly my problem, you think lemmy is one platform. It is not. It’s interconnected but seperate bubbles of activity that are brought together by federation, which has always been optional.