Basically I’m looking for a heterodox political lemmy community where moderate opinions are valued and the level of discourse is pretty good. Where people are there to talk and there’s not as much venting.
From what I’ve seen so far, lemmy is pretty radical left. I doubt you’ll find folks saying anything good about moderate opinions.
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Yep. It’s quite frustrating, because I want to support the concept of the community and what it supports tech-wise, but frequently I find myself clicking off the site because I’ve seen something political so eye-rollingly crazy I don’t feel like sticking around.
I consider myself pretty far left and I find a lot of people here both insufferable and unable to hold a discussion without insults. And that’s coming from people to the left of me.
I’m a mod on Politics and World News. Every day it’s one slapfight or shit storm or another.
Then I just retreat to Comic Books and relax. :)
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The thing I didn’t know at first is that the reason it’s lemmy.ml is because they wanted to be up front that it’s “Marxist/Leninist”.
I don’t think they’re as overtly tankie as lemmygrad or beehaw, but, yeah… it’s kind of baked in.
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Mali, not Malaysia. Malaysia is .my.
Yeah. Asking for moderate political discussion on Lemmy is like going to the model train expo and asking where the spot for G.I. Joe’s is. It’s a pretty unapologetically hard left site
There can be no moderate agenda during a crisis.
Once we eliminate the extremists and extremist agendas, then we can return to moderate views being useful.
Or if the extremists prevail, then there will still be no moderate platform possible.
Well, you could make one.
I think that unless you come up with some sort of very-well-selected moderation rules, though, you’re gonna tend to wind up with either an echo chamber or people getting upset.
heterodox political lemmy community where moderate opinions are valued
Aren’t those requirements definitionally exclusive?
You’re looking for a unorthodox political community, but one that favours orthodox opinions?
Heterodox, not unorthodox.
What counts as moderate?
Whatever most people in real life would say is moderate.
I would love such a thing, but you will only find echo chambers and snark.
One of the great tragedies of our time that people can’t have dissenting views and still be civil.
really depends on what “dissenting views” means to you, though, doesn’t it?
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Nah I think dissenting is pretty clear. If two people disagree then they have dissenting views.
Ok but theres a huge difference between a disagreement on precise tax brackets and a disagreement on racial superiority. Some opinions should be met with hostility
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