Since Trump, I’m finding the Lemmy.world experience to be increasingly akin to an echo chamber and it’s quite frankly starting to bore me. (Inb4, I’m a left winger and I don’t like Trump, but I’m much more interested in a good spirited debate or novel points of view than I am in Orange man bad Nazi circle jerks)

If I wanted the same repetitive comments to be upvoted and any different opinion at all to be downvoted and even blocked/banned, I’d have just stayed on Reddit.

Are there any instances where different, opposing and novel points of view are celebrated and debated rather than simply derided and downvoted?

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    14 hours ago

    dessalines

    Not bro💀

    It’s the Marxist communities that challenge the echo chamber.

    And by so doing become echo chambers of their critiques. Anywhere on the internet that is saturated with those who think alike is an echo chamber.

    As a side note, did you read Blackshirts and Reds?

    I read a bit. I haven’t really been able to get through it cuz i have exams coming up. So i should get to it when those are over.

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      Don’t know what you’re saying about Dessalines.

      As for “echo chambers,” they don’t exist devoid of context. An “echo chamber” mirroring the positions of the status quo upholds it, while one going against the grain disrupts the status quo. They aren’t equally “echo-y.”

      Good on you for starting Blackshirts and Reds, good luck on your exams!

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        13 hours ago

        I’m saying bro is not all that.

        They may not be equally echoey but they’re still quite echoey and often deafeningly so.

        good luck on your exams!

        Thanks!