Ask Lemmy

its there. I have seen it. its also not there. use the block. make the experience you want.

Welcome to ~~reddit~~ lemmy

Have you considered that the reason the community isn't curious about your opinion is because they've heard it dozens of times before? Or maybe your opinion is just rude, or maybe you're posting it in a space that was never for you in the first place?

The entire internet is not and should not be an endless space for you to engage with the MArKetPLAcE OF idEaS. There are plenty of dedicated spaces for that in which every party has already consented to that kind of discussion.

It seems you have a basic misunderstanding of how the Fediverse works.

There's no singular Lemmy, there's no singular "community" here. You might be opening an app called Lemmy on your phone, etc., but you need to understand that what you're experiencing is an amalgamation of multiple instances of Lemmy, kbin/mbin, piefed, and other federated social networks.

Think of it as if anyone and everyone was able to run their own little Facebook/Reddit/Twitter instances with different users and rules, and it all went into one big pot at the end, creating a non-curated Feed of Everything (sans de-federated instances).

This means there's no singular community, much like in the world - there's cliques on top of cliques, different groupings mixing and being exposed to each other.

And yes, this often results in certain intolerant elements accidentally stumbling upon safe spaces, where they don't read the specific community's rules (since they see the posts in their main feeds and go directly to the post), and act intolerant. This is an unfortunate, but luckily, quickly moderated side effect of federation.

I don't come here for friendly debate or to enrich my worldview. It happens from time to time but there are two many bad faith actors to waste time debating with people that don't already largely align with my priorities and morality.

Within those boundaries I'm happy to rethink things and have nuanced conversations and debate with people I already can largely agree on foundational thinking. But frankly at this point in my life if someone comes on here with "but what if Trump is good," I block. Like in order to get to that point, there has to be extremely little common ground to agree on. There is no hope of reasonable conversation.

Likely some people feel the same about me.

I'm all for letting people say what they want, but that goes both ways in letting them criticize what you say.

If you don't like them, you can just ignore them. Nobody is saying you have to take the opinions of people on the internet seriously.