I think it is close to representative of reality, and you aren’t going to find an online social media platform that is less polarized, due to the inherent anonymous and somewhat monoculture the nature of any platform.
We’re all reacting to the large but limited number of articles posted on here by a large but limited number of posters, and we’re allowed to anonymously post what we think or what we really think, but most of it is based off of what’s floating around in here already.
That’s social media, but I do like this platform more than other social media i’ve frequented.
If you’re looking for least biased material, you can join newsletters that give you just the most objective news articles, like join1440.com or someone mentioned the ground.news to me.
But you don’t get all that fun rolling around in the mud that you do here, haha
Ha. I think you touch on a very good point, that I’m not going to find a less polarized platform than this. I guess I wanted to look for a place to balance out the bias from here, but I’m not even sure what that would look like. L.W is slightly more left than reality sometimes, but what exactly would be slightly more right then reality? There isn’t isn’t anywhere. Reddit is the same, just with 100% more meme bullshit and feel good language obscuring interesting kernels.
Perhaps it’s best to simply be aware of the imperfections and keep them in mind.
If you’re just looking for news without a slant, that 1440 newsletter I mentioned previously. It’s pretty great for that, and it’ll only take up 10 minutes a day and you’ll be on top of pretty much everything significant happening in the world.
You might want to check out tildes, it seemed calmer relative to other social media. But I only used it for a day or something.
I joined Lemmy and tildes the same day, and sh.itjust.works let me sign up immediately, while tildes took 2 days, by which point I was already participating in Lemmy. But I liked the simplicity of tildes.
Tildes is entirely text-based, at least on the part that you’re looking at, from what I remember, and I think just the absence of memes and bright colors is calming to the users haha, so you don’t have as many explosive reactions.
I think it is close to representative of reality, and you aren’t going to find an online social media platform that is less polarized, due to the inherent anonymous and somewhat monoculture the nature of any platform.
We’re all reacting to the large but limited number of articles posted on here by a large but limited number of posters, and we’re allowed to anonymously post what we think or what we really think, but most of it is based off of what’s floating around in here already.
That’s social media, but I do like this platform more than other social media i’ve frequented.
If you’re looking for least biased material, you can join newsletters that give you just the most objective news articles, like join1440.com or someone mentioned the ground.news to me.
But you don’t get all that fun rolling around in the mud that you do here, haha
Ha. I think you touch on a very good point, that I’m not going to find a less polarized platform than this. I guess I wanted to look for a place to balance out the bias from here, but I’m not even sure what that would look like. L.W is slightly more left than reality sometimes, but what exactly would be slightly more right then reality? There isn’t isn’t anywhere. Reddit is the same, just with 100% more meme bullshit and feel good language obscuring interesting kernels.
Perhaps it’s best to simply be aware of the imperfections and keep them in mind.
If you’re just looking for news without a slant, that 1440 newsletter I mentioned previously. It’s pretty great for that, and it’ll only take up 10 minutes a day and you’ll be on top of pretty much everything significant happening in the world.
You might want to check out tildes, it seemed calmer relative to other social media. But I only used it for a day or something.
I joined Lemmy and tildes the same day, and sh.itjust.works let me sign up immediately, while tildes took 2 days, by which point I was already participating in Lemmy. But I liked the simplicity of tildes.
Tildes is entirely text-based, at least on the part that you’re looking at, from what I remember, and I think just the absence of memes and bright colors is calming to the users haha, so you don’t have as many explosive reactions.
I’ll have to look into tildes, good shout