the most egregious example I can think of is antiwork in reddit. Posters there love to rant against companies, but they also give good advice regarding laws in different states and is a good source to deal with micromanagers and toxic workplaces.

But it’s like they simply don’t think that reddit is making money with every post they write. It’s like they’re working for the enemy they so much despise, a large corporation.

It baffles me that people keep posting there. Is the fediverse alternative really that bad?

  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
    74·
    11 months ago

    Lemmy is largely nerdy, linux loving leftist early tech adopters. In a sense, we sit in an echo chamber until the platform becomes more widely adopted, even though it doesn’t feel that way.

    • Instigate@aussie.zone
      34·
      11 months ago

      Oh it’s definitely an echo chamber in every sense; there’s no doubt that opinions that tend to be popular on Lemmy are not really representative of true public opinion. The important thing is that we maintain awareness of that and never let ourselves think that what we agree upon, society at large will also agree upon. That awareness helps inoculate against some of the worst effects of an echo chamber.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      164·
      10 months ago

      Early, probably. But the audience here is not THAT primitive. There are casual users that know signing up, and do not even realise they may be on shitjustworks, talking to a lemmee user on a post made by a lemmyworld user.

      Tech redditors/channers are not as bright as you think. They barely make the cut even as a general stereotype.

    • TheMinions@lemmy.world
      12·
      11 months ago

      Hey! I’m a nerdy, windows hating, early tech adopter who is strongly considering switching his personal PC to Linux but has very limited time in which to do so.