I don’t know. I think it’s pretty cool. I used to get downvoted on Reddit for being too liberal. Now, on lemmy I get downvoted because I’m not liberal enough. For some reason though, the latter gives me hope.
I don't think anybody in NA understands the difference between liberal, conservative, social democrat, left-wing, right-wing, socialist, communist, or any of those terms. They just wildly call anybody they don't agree with one of those terms, because to them, they are just insults like cunt, prick, asshole, idiot, bitch, retard, etc. They have no fucking clue what they actually mean.
Yeah, that’s my bad. When posting I say liberal just because on Reddit that’s the same thing as leftist. I have to be more specific when discussing it verbally with my friends. So, that’s my bad habit from Reddit.
Imagine if there was no voting at all and we went back to regular forums. Voting just creates echo chambers for any side to be complete fucks and not hear any other opinions besides the one side that's mostly dominant on the site.
I tend to disagree. Yes, it can cause echo chambers but most of the time if you respectfully discuss things and cite your sources you can disagree and still get upvotes.
Moreover, voting is an extremely effective deterrent against spam, trolling, and advertising.
It's not a platform problem. The problem is the human condition and the fact that the majority of people are unwilling to accept basic facts about how people think and organize, and change their behavior accordingly.
Now there is a statement I agree with. If people like me and the others who use this platform were actually good with people things would be much different.
Which content are you considering extremist? If it is the communist content that is anti capitalistic people, you are seeing more of that because the lemm.ee is federated with a pro communism anti capitalism instance with a good amount of active users. Lemmy.world got hate for blocking instances like that but i'm hoping that it slowly causes this instance to move away from so many posts being political and economic discussions to content focused on other topics.
Sidenote: instances/threads like thegarden.land which I went to add was listed as 96 active users. Awesome! I thought, only to see they are shutting it down because the attacks made recently in .world. Whomever posted child sexual assault material in an attempt to get them to shut down deserves an extremist judge.