I can’t say I never downvote anyone but I get into these comment chains from time to time where really no matter what I post whoever I’m talking to downvotes every response but I generally shy away from downvoting even things I dislike. I don’t want to fall into an echo chamber where all I see are only the things I agree with.
I go and upvote things I want to see more of.
Subjectively, I do not see a big diversity of opinions on Lemmy. Everyone seems to love Linux and communism and hate Windows and western politics.
Haven’t been here for that long though so maybe I’m missing out on some communities.
I see a number of different opinions and cultures, which is why I chose my instance. .Today doesn’t block, so I can pick what I want to see and browse by subscribed.
Scrolling the All feed on .world tends to be more of an echo chamber than selecting about a hundred individual communities to check regularly.
Yeah that’s a pretty accurate synopsis of the major trends. Different subs break away from this. If you’re coming from reddit then it’s was generally left leaning but was just bigger so politics was easy to escape.
There are a lot of communities with more diversity once you dig around long enough. It’s worth it to go through the communities page and sort in different ways to see if anything catches your interest!
I am also really appreciative of users who link relevant communities in the comments!! I’ve found several comms that way.