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If this is meant to say that Lemmy is a cult-like social media, I kinda have to agree. Like Reddit and Twitter are, but only different in that people on Lemmy are more likely to be obsessed with Linux and be trans compared to the other platforms.
Lemmy still has the same "group think" or "hive mind" problem, its just different. More politically left compared to Reddit, which is still politically left but its not so far from center like Lemmy is. Like, Lemmy users have been observed telling people who are politically left that they "arent politically left enough." Who says that, why is that even a thing to argue over?
Would you like to see more right wing political takes? For me I look at the current American right wing snd I don't think any views expressed would be allowed on this platform. Not because this platform has strict rules but because their views are so unhinged and bigoted.
No, I would like to ideally see no political takes. Neutral comments that don't inject politics into topics they don't belong in. Left or right I don't care, I don't want to see either of them.
But I do agree that basically no right wing views are allowed on Lemmy. Not even some left wing views are allowed because they're "not left enough." While I was blocking communities related to politics, one was called something like "conservative" (I dont remember the instance) and it was obviously the victim of targeted vote brigading. Every single post and comment that was not making fun of the OP or calling politically right people "hateful bigots" or Nazis or whatever other buzzword names politically left people use now for politically right people, every single one was sitting at like -200 or more downvotes which was more than the number of people active in the community.
In my opinion, that's a problem, because vote brigading is a Reddit thing and Lemmy was supposed to be better than Reddit. But as it turns out, its the same. Its the same as Reddit, if not worse because of the way its users treat people that don't have exactly the same thinking as they do. I'm sick of the tribalism that Lemmy was described as not having.
Fair enough, I get wanting things to be kept neutral. Ive just come to accept that certain people will always shoehorn politics into every hobby or conversation.
Ill die on the hill that vote brigading is not as bad on lemmy as it was on reddit. If you got heavily downvoted on reddit it restricted your ability to comment and participate with all kinds of unrelated communties on the site. If you get downvoted on lemmy nothing happens except your ego may take a hit.