shogoll

@shogoll@kbin.social

Is Lemmy a biased platform?

Hi new user here. I’ve been checking out Lemmy but the amount of bias is ruining it for me. For example the front page right now has 7 out of 20 submissions that contain the word Trump in a negative context. I don’t care about Trump but when the front page is all political posts attacking Trump I have to wonder about the...

shogoll,

People are pissed about the political situation in the US (imo for good reason).

Rolling up and immediately accusing people (who are imo righteously angry) of being paid shills sounds eerily similar to the bus full of paid protestors disingenuous dog whistle bullshit the right wing media uses to discredit and derail discussions about important matters.

shogoll, (edited )

I mean if it's a contest about dehumanising groups of people I think the right-wing is doing a far superior job to the left...

It seems a bit silly to bring this quote up against the side that is actually angry about demographics getting dehumanized

Edit:
This is an actual paid upvoting service???

shogoll,

I mean if Biden was also being indicted for multiple felonies and being accused of basically selling out his country, you'd probably also see a few more stories hating on him no?

shogoll,

It's a false equivalency to compare Republicans saying Democrats support drag queen child molestations or WWIII in Ukraine or whatever and Democrats claiming Republicans want to force women to make health choices.

Because Democrats haven't passed any laws which would allow drag queen child molestation or induce WWIII in Ukraine, while Republicans actively campaigned for and managed to successfully repeal Roe vs Wade.

Like, do you see how one side's accusation has more concrete evidence than the other?

shogoll,

I mean I think that's great. Fair discussion in good faith should always be welcomed.

The problem is when debates in bad faith or based on non-factual information happen.

Consider COVID, which god knows why became politicized - where one side supported taking basic precautions in the form of wearing masks, hygiene, distancing, and getting vaccinated, while other side did not.

Scientific and medical consensus was nearly unanimous in supporting the former - the two sides of this discussion were not factually equal. One side was working off of false information.

In this case trying to foster "balanced" discussion just ends up supporting the spread of misinformation.
This is what the poster who said that "reasonable people can’t differ on everything."

There are things where it's ok for everyone to agree on. It's not always a sign of some algorithmic conspiracy to force an echo chamber.

shogoll,

Man have you ever considered that the majority of online discussion boards are against Trump because the majority of people are actually against Trump?

shogoll,

But you are literally inviting a discussion about equivalency when you claim that a discussion board with a left wing bias is simply the "same thing in reverse" as a discussion board with a right wing bias.

The scale and severity of the accusations against Trump and those against Biden are on completely different levels. Trying to claim that they should be discussed or compared on similar levels is outright disingenuous.

You're implying the existence of an administrative or algorithmic bias that is somehow censoring right wing talking points while ignoring that several popular right wing talking points are of highly questionable veracity.

shogoll,

Nice vote manipulation bro

shogoll,

How long did it take to make all those alts to upvote yourself?

shogoll,

I watched trailers and reviews of barbie and from what I know, it’s a woke shit that tells matriarchy is better than patriarchy, with a bit of comedy admittedly.

Bro what???

Perez left ‘very concerned’ by lack of pace in Canada as he falls further off the championship lead | Formula 1® (www.formula1.com)

Sergio Perez knew he was in for a long afternoon in Montreal, after a poor qualifying yielded just 12th on the grid. The Mexican opted to start on the hard compound tyre in a bid to overcut the midfield in the first stint, and coming home sixth he could have been satisfied with his recovery.

shogoll,

I'd be concerned too if I was performing like that in the same machinery that was destroying the whole field.

It almost feels like he pressured himself talking about the title bid and ended up psyching himself out.

shogoll,

As opposed to just not trying to race at all?

Penalty reversals based on appeals or new information, penalties to drivers ahead, there's all kinds of reason to push to the very end.

shogoll,

it really doesn't do his image favors how much he struggles in the car when Max is just absolutely destroying...

shogoll,

I gotta say the skins look sick for this one

Dear pre-migration Keebinetters, how can we NOT ruin kbin for you?

As a former redditor I am glad to have found a new "home" and I hope I'm not intruding. Nevertheless, we are all a huge migration that is bound to change how kbin works and we're bound to piss off some pre-migration Keebinetters. The fact you guys were here before and not in reddit makes evident you don't want this to become a...

shogoll,

That predates reddit by years though. That's basically integral to the internet rather than any specific community.

shogoll, (edited )

Fair enough, I thought you were referring to the "redditisms" part of the original comment.

Sorry I didn't catch the intended meaning

shogoll,

I'm partial to the term kebabweenies myself

shogoll,

For what it's worth, there's also an ApexLegends magazine at https://kbin.social/m/ApexLegends

I know the server load is making hard to browse and post anything, but make sure to check it out too!

shogoll,

I think I saw it at a few thousand on like, Sunday

shogoll,

Trying to get the ball rolling at /m/ApexLegends, looking forward to having more people over posting content!

shogoll,

First of all, thanks for responding!

It does seem like a lot of reasonable strategies start from having some level of voice comms and other people to play with. I play on the Tokyo server so that's always a big challenge, very few people comm on there, and even if they do the language they comm in can be variable. Finding a team to play with maybe is the only real solution in a way...

I like the idea of having a go to POI. I also tend to land harvester in WC and hillside on KC, as those feel pretty under rated and don't have a lot of people dropping on them. I never really nailed that down on Olympus or BM. Getting contested is rough without comms and random team mates though, given how chaotic fights are off drop. One downside with Harvester is how easy it is to get split on it for sure, I always feel like I struggle off drop on harvester.

I used to try map room on KC but also struggled with contests on that one, I think when playing solo with no comms POIs with a lot of vertical seperation can get messy. It's easy to get isolated on high/low ground unless your situational awareness is excellent.

I like the idea of looking to craft nearby. That's sounds like a good idea for adding structure to early-mid game.

shogoll,

It does feel like a lot of it ultimately boils down to having a consistent set of team mates you can communicate with and rely on

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