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.
.ml has a lot of cool users.
Unfortunately there are just enough asshats there to taint the entire userbase. I find myself looking askance at any @lemmy.ml, also @hexbear - IMO it’s well deserved. I’d recommend another instance besides those if you want to be taken seriously.
Oh it is deserved, it’s bad leadership, along with a sort of hierarchy, they have like enforcer types as well as their partizans.
If you say the wrong thing they will endlessly troll you, not just from their instance, from other non tankie instances.
Hexbear is the worst.
That said, they have a lot of cool users, you just have to stick to certain issues, politics is a waste of time. Yes things are bad in the west they agree, oh you want to improve it? Fuck you, (their attitude towards me and others not you personally,) there is no making it better only full scale revolution will help, they will say.