You never read reviews on movies, products?
While that’s a fair moral goal, it’s practically impossible. We are an information-sharing species. If you refuse to factor in reputation (which is just aggregated hearsay), you’re essentially choosing to ignore the early warning system that human society has used for thousands of years to stay safe. The trick isn’t to ignore gossip - it’s to learn how to vet the quality of it.
How do you form an independent opinion of a SOCIAL media site 🤔 If you try it, you’re necessarily relying on the opinions of the users of the site (they must like it, else they wouldn’t use it). Or you can be actually intellectually honest and ask your existent social (media) group (that you probably have some alignment with, else you wouldn’t be in it).
There’s a difference between asking for consensus opinion and actually forming your own. And gossip has always been an important part of making decisions on who and what to associate with.
Thinking for yourself is great. Just make sure you actually know how to do it instead of just parroting the sentiment to sound cool.
“OCD made me buy the set.”
“Intrusive thoughts won.”
“Didn’t have enough spoons to resist an impulse.”
“Something something ADHD something something ooh shiny thrinket”
“Me spending another 10dollars on useless junk for a drop of serotonin”
Are you saying you’ll only get on board when everyone else does?
Well, no. I said critical mass. But for the sake of argument: yes.
You should adopt political ideas based on whether you agree with its principles, not based on how many people agree with it.
Who are you to tell me what ideology I should adopt and how to go about it? Who made you the boss of me?
https://repair.eu/ is basically the group fighting that. They’re a huge coalition pushing the EU to force companies to stop soldering everything and actually give us parts and manuals.
It’s less “ranting on YouTube” and more “lobbying for laws” so your next laptop doesn’t end up in a landfill just because of a $2 fuse.
Lemme know when you convince a critical mass of people to adopt communism and I’ll get right on board with that.
Yeah, I see a lot of people appropriate neurodivergent lingo to justify it. Being autistic doesn’t mean your life literally depends on owning every figure of your favorite anime.
Yeah it course corrected a little bit but it did not start out very well. The brainless, misrepresented link dump is the highest voted one. As people pointed out, link dumps like that are straight from alt right playbook. The one reply that called out the issues got removed by mods and it was heavily downvoted initially (actually the timing and amount of upvotes and downvotes in those two comments, and how it evened out makes me think someone was vote manipulating when the link dump was posted). One of the comments from the link dump user was calling the debunker an eugenicist too and that got way too many upvotes off the bat than makes sense to me.
Like I said, there’s diversity of opinion but some users, instances have pretty terminally online, black and white opinions that lead to downvote burials. And for a lot of people, that does signal “this is what I should think/this is what I shouldn’t think”. If it’s not the case for you personally, cool. But black and white thinking is so much easier and upvotes/downvotes play right into that.
I think there’s plenty of diversity. However there is a tendency on certain instances to completely dogpile anyone who has the Wrong Opinion on certain issues, with extreme hyperbole.
Take the AI thread going on. People keep referring to environmental costs as if using an AI query is the equivalent of burning down a whole tree. You consume way more energy just charging your phone. Watching a video. Playing games. Yet using an AI is bad enough to get you called a fascist, an eugenicist and other fun things. The lack of perspective is staggering but certain section of Lemmy users have just decided that AI is evil and any nuance is wrongthink. Even just accepting the reality that AI isn’t going to go away is seen as evil comparable to murder.
Other example is the db0 blocking feddit.org debacle.
You see, if we tell parents that it’s actually super important that they raise their kids, I’m sure they will do it. Just like if we tell everyone that a vaccine for a dangerous disease is a really good idea, everyone will just settle down and go get it.
This thread certainly is full of interesting takes.
“People who get called stupid are just the result of the luck of the draw”
“REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NOOOO I WANNA CALL PEOPLE STUPID HOW DARE YOU BAN WORDS PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO BE ASSHOLES”
Good points, and I agree.
I do like Pinball (I just suck at it) and I always thought the machines are really really neat. I’m happy to see someone bring them up! I suppose it’s just that they’re a bit inaccessible. Having one in your home is a whole thing and going to an arcade is another whole thing.
Pinball is grossly under-appreciated, and its progression is a great example of doing new things with old ideas.
Explain.
Not because I strongly disagree, but I’m curious since you bring it up as a controversial take.
>“look up paradox of tolerance UwU” >“ok, let’s look at what it actually says” >“i didn’t read it UwU”
that tracks
i think people not knowing how to actually win an argument against a bigot is exactly the reason there are so many these days
shit’s easy. not that they’ll admit defeat but getting them babbling irrational nonsense takes very little debating skills. and when they inevitably start throwing ad hominems, then the mods have legitimate grounds to kick them out.
the spiciest take
nobody wants to change the game, they’re just mad that they’re not winning it
Oh yeah, this is perfect for me!
You volunteered a pretty absolute statement and I responded accordingly. OP asked “we”, you reject the “we” and answer anyway, with a side order of sneering.