Given that anyone could set up their own instance with whatever rules they like, I don’t think it would make sense to say that “Lemmy” is “liberal”. It’s kind of like asking if email is liberal.
However, it is certainly the case that different instances have different political leanings as established by the instance administrators.
Likewise, communities are governed by their moderators, but as this is Lemmy, if you don’t like the way the moderators run their community, you can create a community of your own. Then you can have an echo chamber filled with everyone who agrees with you!
So, it is what we make of it. We can have liberal, center, or conservative echo chambers if that’s what we want, or we can have knock down drag out fights with people who will never agree with us.
It’s important to remember that in Lemmy downvotes are like the points in Whose Line Is it Anyway: they don’t matter.
I totally agree. We can have whatever political direction that we choose, nevertheless in practice it seems the majority of Lemmy is liberal & progressive & leftist. There is obviously nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is downvoting & upvoting along these political lines and disregarding how well is each idea formulated. It does happen too often in my opinion.
Like you, all can vote using whatever metrics they see fit. I don’t care if you downvote cripples and Klingons. Ideally if a given community is worth a shit, the net tally will show as such.
Given that anyone could set up their own instance with whatever rules they like, I don’t think it would make sense to say that “Lemmy” is “liberal”. It’s kind of like asking if email is liberal.
However, it is certainly the case that different instances have different political leanings as established by the instance administrators.
Likewise, communities are governed by their moderators, but as this is Lemmy, if you don’t like the way the moderators run their community, you can create a community of your own. Then you can have an echo chamber filled with everyone who agrees with you!
So, it is what we make of it. We can have liberal, center, or conservative echo chambers if that’s what we want, or we can have knock down drag out fights with people who will never agree with us.
It’s important to remember that in Lemmy downvotes are like the points in Whose Line Is it Anyway: they don’t matter.
I totally agree. We can have whatever political direction that we choose, nevertheless in practice it seems the majority of Lemmy is liberal & progressive & leftist. There is obviously nothing wrong with that. What is wrong is downvoting & upvoting along these political lines and disregarding how well is each idea formulated. It does happen too often in my opinion.
Like you, all can vote using whatever metrics they see fit. I don’t care if you downvote cripples and Klingons. Ideally if a given community is worth a shit, the net tally will show as such.