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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hello. Can I please make my internet experience both echoier and chamberier than it already is because it makes me sad when I encounter someone online who has different thoughts to me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Like .ml admins cracking down on people suggesting that Mao's "Great Leap Forward" was catastrophe because it forced a political will ignorant of economic reality on a society violently robbed of the ability to resist, even terrorised into meeting their quotas at any cost? Or the fact that purging and suppressing all dissidents in the first place was cruel and authoritarian, a brutal abuse of power of the same kind as Stalin's and (in this one aspect, at least) Hitler's?

I'm a leftist to the bone, I recognise that a revolution without bloodshed wouldn't have been possible at the time (and maybe never will be) and that a hard hand forcing fundamental changes to the political and educational system may well be required, but .ml has a well-known Tankie problem and they're all too eager to follow in the steps of the boots they so love to lick.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Good point, that's why they ban you on their instance when you write a counter argument.

That's another reason of becoming independent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sure, just spend all your time on lemmy.ml and that's exactly what you'll get.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every community is an echo chamber except for mine!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Have you actually been to lemmy.ml? They enforce vague rules to maintain their echo chamber

Notably, no comments have been removed from this thread for either supporting or decrying the CCP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I agree that power zealous mods are shit, but it's also poor when well written comments and posts, made in good faith, are heavily downvoted for no other reason than not conforming to the consensus of the hive mind, which definitely happens here.

We should be encouraging discussion, not discouraging wrong think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

wtf are you talking about. ive been banned from many .world communities for supporting china.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I too would prefer an Internet flooded with ~~different thoughts~~ bad faith trolls.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

everyone i dont like is a troll!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i dont watch shows i know i wont like on netflix. guess im in a echo chamber there too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

apt comparison. netflix slop and political discourse to save ourselves. very similar and comparable things.