What are the biases of Lemmy?
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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 wrote last edited by [email protected]World == USA
Incredible US bias here to the point where many discussions completely ignore the existence of the rest of the world.
Lemmy is actually worse than reddit here. The only network that at least tries to be cosmopolitan is Mastodon and that's why it just feels so much healthier there.
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GenAI being used in missile guidance makes zero sense - the technology is not applicable there, because you need precision and reliability. Normal AI, sure.
I specifically said "not Gen AI".
Ah, sorry, I misread.
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I agree with Hawke, I think people are against the use of technology in such a way that it exploits workers and customers, not fundamentally against the technology itself.
I agree with that statement too. Where Hawke and I are disagreeing is I believe Self Driving cars can be used to exploit workers and customers. We already have Waymo robot taxi cabs that are displacing human drivers.
That's not how I ready their statement... I think Hawke is saying that AI itself is not inherently bad, just that it's being used for bad things. The bad things they identified are different from yours, but I think you're basically saying the same thing over-all?
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Ah, sorry, I misread.
No worries
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If you go back to my original comment you'll see that I said:
I've seen threads in the main piracy community where the general consensus seemed to be that copyright should be used as a weapon against AI.
That's the "Piracy OK" side, so yes, there is hypocrisy there. I'm reminded of the classic "what kind of woman do you think I am?" story.
wrote last edited by [email protected]An unfortunately apt analogy in its misogyny.
'A billionaire offers to kill a man, proposing a price paid to his family of $1 billion dollars. The moribund man says "sure!". "And what about if you pay me $1000 for the privilege?". "What kind of man do you think I am?". "We've already established that and are just haggling the price"'. A less misogynistic, less funny but accurate version of the joke.
Murdering criminals, we all agree on. Murdering the family man only works if he consents. It doesn't make him hypocritical or suicidal to reject a price.
If AI and media companies treated their employees well and offered fair terms for a subscription, the advocates would probably not pirate or boycott.
Again I am not that kind of pirate and I'm pro AI, but I don't think their views are inconsistent or anything. So anyways just my take but your stance is interesting too.
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What implication is that?
wrote last edited by [email protected]That it shouldn't be US or any other nation defaultism, putting the left/right argument squarely in the realm of the relatively objective socialist/capitalist economic scale.
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Also half of all lemmings are transgender. No idea why.
The chemicals in the protocols are turning the nerds gay
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That it shouldn't be US or any other nation defaultism, putting the left/right argument squarely in the realm of the relatively objective socialist/capitalist economic scale.
I think youre reading way too much into what tried to be an inclusive name.
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This isn't even taking into consideration eating red meat which has a far great impact than any AI query ever will, but most anti-AI peeps aren't ready for that conversation.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Exactly, If caring about the environment is why you hate AI, but you still eat red meat and take flights on holiday you don't have a leg to stand on.
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All capitalism is bad, and any attempt to rein it in is failure before any attempts.
I’ve seen people advocate for communism here and asked them to name an example of a communist government of a major country that hasn’t devolved quickly into a dictatorship, and let me tell you, the hysteria and rage could power a small city. I’m fairly progressive, I like to think, but it seems like a lot of lemmings have gone so far down the anti-capitalist rabbit hole they’ve literally come out the other side in China and are wearing Mao stickers.
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.world is the right wing instance
We certainly do have our fair share of Zionist scumbags.
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World == USA
Incredible US bias here to the point where many discussions completely ignore the existence of the rest of the world.
Lemmy is actually worse than reddit here. The only network that at least tries to be cosmopolitan is Mastodon and that's why it just feels so much healthier there.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I mentioned how HDDs could be broken down fpr secure data erasure and then trashed (read recycled).
Lemmy user immediately read and assumed "landfill".
Well...There are countries in the world that don't have massive landfills (we in Germany replaced those with coal mine pits :p) -
Most of Lemmy is anti-AI, especially generative AI.
Too much negative experience with reddit using AI to moderate
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I’ve seen people advocate for communism here and asked them to name an example of a communist government of a major country that hasn’t devolved quickly into a dictatorship, and let me tell you, the hysteria and rage could power a small city. I’m fairly progressive, I like to think, but it seems like a lot of lemmings have gone so far down the anti-capitalist rabbit hole they’ve literally come out the other side in China and are wearing Mao stickers.
If they ever picked up or even looked history on communism, they would actually won't advocate for it
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Also half of all lemmings are transgender. No idea why.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Trans people are almost attacked or banned all other platforms or at least astroturfed, it does make sense
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.world is the right wing instance
I wouldn't put it that far, they are closer to reddit
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This brings up another facet: when it comes to ideological biases it's all subjective.
I consider lemmy.world slightly left of center overall, but again with important caveats that some communities within it are pretty left wing and some are pretty right wing. But maybe to someone pretty far on the left of the political spectrum the instance seems very right wing, while to someone pretty far to the right it seems like almost everyone are 'rabid pinko commies'.
Basically, things are more complicated than they may look.
Usually the right wing instances are almost always blocked?
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Thinking we're better than everyone who's still on Reddit
wrote last edited by [email protected]Reddit is mostly bots, so yes it's better. Like 50% bots, and not the good kind, the one that steer the narrative to pro-right and pro Israeli . Plus reddit has done massive amounts of purges.
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Reddit is full of Russian fuck bots arguing over which chump to pull one over. I don't think it's a high bar.
R/ conservative is the most obvious one, where they completely suppressed the Epstein files discussion
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Or communists defending the CCP seemingly entirely due to their name
Wait til they hear the CCP is more capitalist than actually communist, of course they don't read up on history
