• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Not a fan of the takes the average visitor from more right-wing instances brings, sometimes it’s nice to deliberately pick a smaller instance with like-minded people.

    Social media becomes less addicting and less debatebro-ey.

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      4 months ago

      i don’t like seeing it either, but cocooning yourself into an echo chamber doesn’t help thing at all.

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        4 months ago

        I disagree, actually. I never have productive conversations regarding Marxism, for example, with liberals. Opinions being diverse does not necessarily mean they add value to conversations.

        Still, I have multiple accounts of the same name, I use when I want to talk to different people.

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          4 months ago

          i never expect the conversations to be productive, especially with liberals; but i don’t find that the discourse forces me to re-evaluate my views and it usually strengthens them.

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            Sure, and that’s fine. For me, it usually results in frustration and phone addiction, so it helps me not do it quite as much, even if I have a long way to go.

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              3 months ago

              frustration should be expected and i think that the only way to get something positive from it is to keep your cool.