I still use Reddit for niche and polarizing topics. Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here. Imagine an average Christian joining the Fediverse: they’d have to leave many of their beliefs at the door and adapt to the herd, or risk being unwelcome, having posts downvoted to oblivion, and being told to leave. It’s already happened to me a few times with opinions that aren’t welcomed here. It’s a far cry from what Lemmy’s decentralization promised.
Same. I’m an agnostic Christian. I adhere to the teachings and values of Jesus, but my definition of God doesn’t conform to the Bible’s and cannot be verified AFAIK.
Atheism 1.45K users / month, Religion 9 users / month, religion isn’t gonna fly on Lemmy. You may be as christian as you like but how many times have you been able to talk religion here. And the same goes for any topics that goes against the current group think.
What would you even talk about on the religion community? Like of course it has no users it’s a pointless community. If not even dedicated to a religion but the concept of religion in general? That sounds so pointless.
“Hey Hindus don’t you love having religion? We sure do Jews. What about y’all Buddhists? Oh we love it. How’s it hanging Christians aren’t we glad we’re all here together?”
I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.
I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.
Real Christians wouldn’t have to change whatsoever to participate in lemmy/reddit. Because real Christians are too preoccupied loving others to be policing people’s sins.
All these FAKE Christians are pigs dressed in sheeps clothing, made in china and sold to them by their dear wolf leader.
When someone disagrees with you, you have the opportunity to more clearly define what you think. This might mean changing your mind to a greater or lesser degree; it could mean understanding more completely why you hold the view you already have. If the votes show that a lot of people disagree with you, well, conventional wisdom is often enough not very wise.
In my experience, fediverse people have been more reasonable than reddit people - but you’re going to find petulant children on any public forum.
If my large, angry (hypothetical) neighbour decides I’m an a-hole - and, let’s say I am - it still doesn’t give him the right to come into my house and beat me bloody. Nor does it give him the right to change the fences around the yards or remodel my house for me.
Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here.
Enlightened centrism 101 folks. Reduce both sides until they have zero nuance so that you can ignore the substance of any given consensus.
I still use Reddit for niche and polarizing topics. Lemmy feels like groupthink to me, especially about politics — it’s always “Ukraine good, Russia bad” and “Palestine good, Israel bad.” I like hearing both sides, but divergent opinions get smothered here. Imagine an average Christian joining the Fediverse: they’d have to leave many of their beliefs at the door and adapt to the herd, or risk being unwelcome, having posts downvoted to oblivion, and being told to leave. It’s already happened to me a few times with opinions that aren’t welcomed here. It’s a far cry from what Lemmy’s decentralization promised.
They downvoted him for telling the truth.
Lemmy is an echo chamber.
I’ve been a Christian for over 30 years, and I’ve never felt this at all. What are you seeing that I’m not?
Same. I’m an agnostic Christian. I adhere to the teachings and values of Jesus, but my definition of God doesn’t conform to the Bible’s and cannot be verified AFAIK.
Atheism 1.45K users / month, Religion 9 users / month, religion isn’t gonna fly on Lemmy. You may be as christian as you like but how many times have you been able to talk religion here. And the same goes for any topics that goes against the current group think.
What would you even talk about on the religion community? Like of course it has no users it’s a pointless community. If not even dedicated to a religion but the concept of religion in general? That sounds so pointless.
“Hey Hindus don’t you love having religion? We sure do Jews. What about y’all Buddhists? Oh we love it. How’s it hanging Christians aren’t we glad we’re all here together?”
Lol.
I don’t see a slow drip of Christian right, just allowing themselves to be converted to this freewheeling mass known as the fediverse, one by one. They’d hop their own pirate barge on an instance, lobbing bible verses at us en masse.
I suspect we’re all looking forward to it too because it’s what the fediverse promised us. We get to be whatever we want to be, and god dammit we can float our own barges if we’re weird enough.
Real Christians wouldn’t have to change whatsoever to participate in lemmy/reddit. Because real Christians are too preoccupied loving others to be policing people’s sins.
All these FAKE Christians are pigs dressed in sheeps clothing, made in china and sold to them by their dear wolf leader.
When someone disagrees with you, you have the opportunity to more clearly define what you think. This might mean changing your mind to a greater or lesser degree; it could mean understanding more completely why you hold the view you already have. If the votes show that a lot of people disagree with you, well, conventional wisdom is often enough not very wise.
In my experience, fediverse people have been more reasonable than reddit people - but you’re going to find petulant children on any public forum.
I agree with all of this except the derogatory use of the c-word.
Conventional? God dammit, I fucking did it again.
If my large, angry (hypothetical) neighbour decides I’m an a-hole - and, let’s say I am - it still doesn’t give him the right to come into my house and beat me bloody. Nor does it give him the right to change the fences around the yards or remodel my house for me.
Enlightened centrism 101 folks. Reduce both sides until they have zero nuance so that you can ignore the substance of any given consensus.