Hi new user here. Iāve been checking out Lemmy but the amount of bias is ruining it for me. For example the front page right now has 7 out of 20 submissions that contain the word Trump in a negative context. I donāt care about Trump but when the front page is all political posts attacking Trump I have to wonder about the health of the site.
In the most simple sense, could Republican submissions survive on Lemmy politics community ignoring the voting behavior or would the site and moderators itself actively suppress it to ākeep the peaceā? I think this gets to the heart of the question and again, this isnāt political to me, itās purely mechanical. I think that if a social media site has a community called āpoliticsā that is solely made up of stories promoting one party while shitting on the other then the entire site is inherently flawed. It isnāt being genuine in what it offers and is incapable of providing it.
Itās like if you had a community named ācarsā but youāre only allowed to talk positively about certain manufacturers. Imagine most people either like Ford or Chevy but on the ācarsā community it ājust so happensā that everyone there likes Ford.
You can post about Chevy but you have to be careful about how reliable the information is. You have an article that says Chevyās new SUV produces 500 horsepower? Well, that source isnāt reliable. In fact this Ford biased source did a study showing it only produces 400 horsepower. You think that isnāt a reliable source? This Ford biased bias checker agrees that your Chevy source is biased but our Ford source is not biased. No, we canāt just give people information and let them decide for themselves. Thatās dangerous. We can only give them our rock solid Ford sources in order to protect humanity.
Did you comment that you sometimes prefer Chevy for certain things? Well, in this Ford biased community thatās not going to go over well. Now you have 1000 downvotes and 100 comments calling you an idiot. Try to defend your opinions? Too bad, you can only respond every 15 minutes. You have too many downvotes. Well, look at that, the dumb Chevy poster realized he is a moron and had nothing to say in response. Clearly the Ford posters were right again. After all, just look at all those downvotes and comments and the Chevy poster didnāt even reply.
So what do you end up with?
You get a ācarsā community, a āfordā community, and a āchevyā community but youāre not allowed to talk about Chevy in cars. You can only organically talk about Chevy in the Chevy community. That is until the site administrators start getting involved and deciding that really it isnāt safe for humanity to let Chevy people talk about Chevy in the Chevy community. Theyāve been posting unreliable sources in there, using bad language towards Ford posters, and so on. Itās a dangerous hate community so weāre going to shut it down. You can talk about Chevy in the cars community if you want.
Then you get biased Ford stories under the ācarsā community showing up on the front page. Anyone who prefers Chevy will never have their submissions seen because it is relegated to a smaller community that algorithmically wonāt show up. If it somehow does get big and popular enough the admins step in and boot it or artificially step on promoting it.
Again, I donāt care about politics and you can substitute Biden for Trump and make comparisons to other social media sites. Iām simply asking if Lemmy is offering anything different with regards to this situation.
Can someone explain how it is different from the Reddit moderator and suppression rules? So far Lemmy is producing the same biased garbage I see on Reddit so Iād like to know if this is a function of Lemmy itself like it is on Reddit or if itās just echos of Reddit that could one day go away. Is Lemmy something new or is it just for people who loved NuReddit but are mad about the API changes?
Find me one legitimate news source that states itās ālikelyā that the CCP is bribing Biden.
If you are even entertaining the thought that the Trump shit is a conspiracy, youāre a joke. Listen to the tapes.
Any news source I found you would merely dismiss as not being legitimate. You donāt seem to know that conspiracy is a word that means something. This is different from āconspiracy theoriesā the popular phrase. Trump is being charged with conspiracyā¦ itās kind of hilarious to me you saying Iām a joke if I think the āTrump shit is a conspiracyā heās being charged with conspiracy! I think that makes you the joke because itās funny to me at least.
Not at all. Any site that is widely respected is fine. You can google news reliability websites if youāre not sure.