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People here proved your own point. You got downvoted
They're getting downvoted because "Is this place a ____ echo chamber where dissenters get downvoted?" is a pretty shit topic for an AskLemmy thread.
And because "downvotes anyone complaining about downvotes" is a holdover from reddit culture. One worth keeping, perhaps.
I suspect it predates Reddit culture by at least a few hundred thousand years. People don’t like bitching. I mean… we love bitching, we just don’t want to hear others do it.
Why is it a shit topic? Where else should they ask it then?
I mean, going off the community description, it's neither "open ended" nor particularly "thought provoking", so I think downvotes are perfectly warranted.
ETA: the "you know, where dissenters get downvoted" also seems pretty bait-y because it presumes that downvotes indicate dissent rather than indicating a lack of value to the community/discussion.
I actually didn't read the community description. Thanks for pointing that out.