That also makes it a very draining instance where there is constant skirmishing, but the plus side is that it's a good frontier to try to push Leftist ideals for other instances to see.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

It provides a good balance between seeing mainstream right wing opinions without having to deal with full on Republican fascists.

Not being in an echo chamber helps to keep us grounded to what the layman CNN watcher believes.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Where are you seeing these right wing opinions? I batangas haven't seen any since wolfballs dropped

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 hours ago

.world is full of them.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago

Sure, but discussing the same points day after day is frequently unproductive. Hexbear and Lemmygrad, as an example, can be seen as an "echo-chamber" within the context of Lemmy, but Lemmy itself exists in the context of a western-dominated internet. It's rare that a liberal wandering into Lemmy.ml brings a new argument to the table unheard of by leftists in their daily lives going against the grain.

The benefit of such "echo chambers" is that there's potential for higher understanding and discussion. I'm not going to find nuanced discusdion of, say, Marx's Law of Value or Dialectical and Historical Materialism here as applied to current events. There's opportunity to give the briefest overview to visitors here, but such topics require being a particular nerd for Leftist politics and theory as well as reading more in-depth than Lemmy conversations can provide.

[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Probably for the best, because if you click through to the .ml version you get worlders saying things like

I dunno, I perceive it more as a letft wing term for left-extremist fascists

Words mean nothing to these people lmao

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 12 hours ago

It's a very silly place here.