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Lemmy users lack nuace and it stops actual discussion. (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by RedAggroBest@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I seriously cannot have any degree of nuanced conversation here.

Like I get it, we all know capitalism is bad, but it feels like every time I or anyone go towards discussing the steps that need to be taken to address current looming problems in the short term, someone has to jump in and shut it down with "capitalism bad >:[ " and tear down any idea presented because its not complete and total destruction of the current economic model.

The result just feels like an echo chamber where no actual solutions get presented other than someone posting whole ass dissertations on their 33-step (where 30/33 steps are about as vague as "we'll just handle it") plan to fully convert the world to an anarchist commune.

Edit: I still vastly prefer Lemmy and the fediverse and a whole, my complaint here is that many of you are TOO INTENSE. You blow up small scale discussion.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

/agree

Hot Take: I honestly don't know if I'm right or not about this, but it feels like it's a generational thing, and not just a Lemmy thing.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

Maybe try !casualconversation@lemmy.world ? It's more laid back

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I actually find the conversations on Lemmy to be a lot more educated and in depth than the ones I've seen on Reddit or Twitter over the years. Sure, you still get a couple raving idiots chime in to accuse you of crimes against humanity occasionally, but it's not worth fretting over.

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I'm really trying to see the point that it's not about right or wrong it's about DEPTH.

My discussion on smaller topics shouldn't get taken over by bigger scale until it's just useless, empty rhetoric.

[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

First day on the internet?

[–] Icalasari@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah. It's a moderately popular forum. You need to find a small community or instance to get nuance because places trend towards echo chambers after a certain size

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