There are a lot of small websites on the Internet: Interesting websites, beautiful websites, unique websites.
Unfortunately they are incredibly hard to find. You cannot find them on Google or Reddit, and while you can stumble onto them with my search engine, it is not in a very directed fashion.
It is an unfortunate state of affairs. Even if you do not particularly care for becoming the next big thing, it’s still discouraging to put work into a website and get next to no traffic beyond the usual bots.
The people here are the problem. They screech and scare anyone less than social democrats on the spectrum.
Reddit was never close to as an echo chamber.
everything is an echo chamber
can you name a single thing that’s not an echo chamber of some sorts?
Nothing. Blue sky is the best of them though. Lemmy is one of the worst.
This is a self-hosted sub. You are going to see a lot of anti-establishment, anti-corporation stuff here because it’s a core principle and/or concern of many users looking into self-hosting. That tends to come with attached behaviors like you described.
While I would tend to agree that it’s unfortunate that you have to wade through a lot of folks knee-jerk blanket commenting on certain topics, and that those screeching comments are annoying, Lemmy is generally a big tent, so you will need to accept their presence, the same way we have to just ignore all the AI Slop software presented here.
The price of freedom is accepting the screechers.
My experience was that every sub reddit itself was an echo chamber.
Not having the majority opinion of the subreddit meant getting negative scores because of downvoters, which lead to deleted posts because of that stupid karma system.
But yeah, suggesting a permanent solution for both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict on Lemmy by criticizing BOTH sides doesn’t get you sympathy points here either.
Even here, the guy you’re responding to is getting down voted to oblivion (for Lemmy anyways) for an opinion that I have echoed elsewhere and gotten the opposite response.
Not having the majority opinion of this community seems to mean downvotes too. The only real difference is that reddit has enough staying power for people to put up with it.
I’m on a Lemmy instance that has downvotes disabled. I can only see that the person I replied to has 3 upvotes and that me previous comment has 2. I don’t even see the negativity on Lemmy.
He’s at -5 at the moment. Depending on what instances you have blocked, you’re going to see different amounts. It doesn’t mean those people aren’t there.
Even if the post is true, it was the worst way to present it. It reads like trolling:
Call out people’s politics with grandiose rhetoric, not backing up any claims with links to evidence.
Declare the other side is unbiased.
I mean, Internet 101 would dictate you downvote and disengage. It’s not going to generate a discussion that would change minds or be constructive. Even now we’re not talking about small website discoverability, but instead downvotes.
EDIT: I’m going to put my money where my mouth is. I’ll try the same post.