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What are the biases of Lemmy?

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    It is very left, sometimes infuriatingly so when the people here defend autocratic countries such as Iran.

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    Arguing that Israel and the US shouldn't indiscriminately bomb Iran is not the same as defending their leadership.

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      Or communists defending the CCP seemingly entirely due to their name

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      That's mostly .ml users not most of Lemmy and none of PieFed

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      • Q [email protected]

        What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

        (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

        Commonly mentioned biases:

        Subject Mentions
        Pro-Privacy 2
        Left-Wing 9
        Anti-Capitalism 5
        American 5
        Older 2
        Pro-Linux 3
        Tech people 5
        Anti-Ai 4
        Pro-LBTQ+ 3
        Anti religion 3
        Pro-Communism 3

        Bonus: Gaming Biases

        Subject Mentions
        Nintendo hate 3
        Pro-SteamDeck 1
        Anti-GOG 1
        PC over console 1
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        IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.

        The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.

        On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.

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        • galoisghost@aussie.zoneG [email protected]

          It’s a spectrum so there are two extremes, you’re either at one extreme the 100% pure male or the other the 100% pure female. There can only be one person at either end. Therefore unless you, particularly, are one of the extremes (and let’s be honest those two people have no clue it’s them) you are on the spectrum somewhere in between. Meaning you are a tiny bit trans.

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          That's interesting. I have to think more about this but it certainly makes sense, I certainly don't feel 100% pure male based on.. many things. Thank you for explaining.

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            Arguing that Israel and the US shouldn't indiscriminately bomb Iran is not the same as defending their leadership.

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            I've seen both.

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            • Q [email protected]

              What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

              (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

              Commonly mentioned biases:

              Subject Mentions
              Pro-Privacy 2
              Left-Wing 9
              Anti-Capitalism 5
              American 5
              Older 2
              Pro-Linux 3
              Tech people 5
              Anti-Ai 4
              Pro-LBTQ+ 3
              Anti religion 3
              Pro-Communism 3

              Bonus: Gaming Biases

              Subject Mentions
              Nintendo hate 3
              Pro-SteamDeck 1
              Anti-GOG 1
              PC over console 1
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              Thinking we're better than everyone who's still on Reddit

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                • anti religion.
                • full of leftists or liberals
                • people are more concious about their personal data.
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                More leftists, fewer liberals.

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                • knight_alva@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                  IMHO Lemmy feels similar to how Reddit felt 10-15 years ago. The community seems closer to my age. The population is smaller. The content is less formulaic.

                  The biases shown here feel like a distillation of the broader internet (similar to what Reddit used to be). We like animals and nature, we hate intrusive powerful forces like large corporations or invasive governments. We share a shit-post-y sense of humor. We tend to lean left politically. We love to feel like we know more than we actually do.

                  On any given subject, if you ask “What would the internet think about this?” you will probably find that same opinion reflected strongly here.

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                  The community seems closer to my age.

                  I feel like the community is split between 25~40s and pre-teens, lol

                  Though to be fair, it feels like a 70:30 split.

                  There are a lot of Reddit refugees here. Many came over because Reddit sucks. Others came during the API debacle. Some seem to have come here because they were banned from Reddit due to not really knowing how to follow the social rules of the internet.

                  The AskLemmy Community, for example, will have posts like this next to each other (if you sort by New):

                  What's the biggest issue you've seen when someone tried to shift to Linux?

                  Why do older people say im mature for my age but my friends still say things like hey buddy/pal??

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                    Which seems uninformed and ridiculous as Deep Learning for classification and regression problems is an absolute valid tool that cannot be replaced anymore in many domains. I don't care about LLM bullshit, but being "against Deep Learning in general" is stupid.

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                    Nobody* is talking about machine learning when they say “AI” these days. They mean LLMs and generative AI and especially the way it is being forced into everything and destroying the environment to do so.

                    * not literally; there is certainly at least one person out there who objects to machine learning, deep learning, or whatever you want to call it. However this is not the general sentiment.

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                    • L [email protected]

                      It is very left, sometimes infuriatingly so when the people here defend autocratic countries such as Iran.

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                      Always will be that way, too.

                      IIRC, Lemmy.ml was the first instance; the ones who built Lemmy. We're kind of the "normies" who've invaded their space.

                      I appreciate them for building Lemmy and letting it remain free ("freedom" free). Still, I'll argue with people who are saying crazy stuff like NK being a good place for its citizens to live...

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                      • P [email protected]

                        Are people anti non-generative AI? Or is broader AI just getting dragged in to the justified anti genAI sentiment?

                        I formed this question to myself and was about to post it, but then I remembered Lemmy also hates self-driving cars which are likely Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Recurrent Nerual Networks (RNN) which are not part of Generative AI at all.

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                        I think the hatred there is completely disconnected from the fact that it’s AI.

                        Both of them have in common that the technology is being forced upon us at the cost of lives, livelihoods, and the environment upon which we all rely to survive.

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                          I think the hatred there is completely disconnected from the fact that it’s AI.

                          Both of them have in common that the technology is being forced upon us at the cost of lives, livelihoods, and the environment upon which we all rely to survive.

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                          I'm not sure I follow your logic. Those reasons you give are still hatred of AI because of those results (job loss, etc). How is that not hatred of AI?

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                            What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

                            (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

                            Commonly mentioned biases:

                            Subject Mentions
                            Pro-Privacy 2
                            Left-Wing 9
                            Anti-Capitalism 5
                            American 5
                            Older 2
                            Pro-Linux 3
                            Tech people 5
                            Anti-Ai 4
                            Pro-LBTQ+ 3
                            Anti religion 3
                            Pro-Communism 3

                            Bonus: Gaming Biases

                            Subject Mentions
                            Nintendo hate 3
                            Pro-SteamDeck 1
                            Anti-GOG 1
                            PC over console 1
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                            This probably sounds like a dodge of an answer, but...

                            It depends on the Lemmy instance. Some are anarchistic, some are very left wing anti-establishment, some are hardcore tankies, and I've heard somewhere there's a right-wing instance? Some hate certain technologies, some love those technologies, etc.

                            I don't think it's realistic to lump all Lemmy instances (and users) together under a single ideological umbrella. That's like lumping everyone from America or any other county together for their opinions.

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                              As an avid fan of both since I was a kid, I don't think these two are really at odds with each other.

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                              You're paraphrasing "Only Sith deals in absolutes" and you're showing your bias. 😀

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                                Most of Lemmy is anti-AI, especially generative AI.

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                                If you get all your info from Lemmy you'd probably think that AI is a worthless hype bubble that can't do anything right and will collapse and go away in a few years.

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                                • Q [email protected]

                                  What do you think Lemmy is most biased about? Which opinions do you think differ most from the general internet?

                                  (Excluding US politics, due to community rules)

                                  Commonly mentioned biases:

                                  Subject Mentions
                                  Pro-Privacy 2
                                  Left-Wing 9
                                  Anti-Capitalism 5
                                  American 5
                                  Older 2
                                  Pro-Linux 3
                                  Tech people 5
                                  Anti-Ai 4
                                  Pro-LBTQ+ 3
                                  Anti religion 3
                                  Pro-Communism 3

                                  Bonus: Gaming Biases

                                  Subject Mentions
                                  Nintendo hate 3
                                  Pro-SteamDeck 1
                                  Anti-GOG 1
                                  PC over console 1
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                                  Clearly a severe leftist bias. Not just in the context of US politics.

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                                    Clearly a severe leftist bias. Not just in the context of US politics.

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                                    It's not a bias if you're right

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                                    • thepowerofgeek@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                                      This probably sounds like a dodge of an answer, but...

                                      It depends on the Lemmy instance. Some are anarchistic, some are very left wing anti-establishment, some are hardcore tankies, and I've heard somewhere there's a right-wing instance? Some hate certain technologies, some love those technologies, etc.

                                      I don't think it's realistic to lump all Lemmy instances (and users) together under a single ideological umbrella. That's like lumping everyone from America or any other county together for their opinions.

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                                      .world is the right wing instance

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                                        Thinking we're better than everyone who's still on Reddit

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                                        It's not bias if you're right

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                                        • P [email protected]

                                          I'm not sure I follow your logic. Those reasons you give are still hatred of AI because of those results (job loss, etc). How is that not hatred of AI?

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                                          The self-driving cars are not hatred of AI. Nobody* cares that they use machine-learning to enable the cars to drive themselves.

                                          It’s not hatred of AI there.

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