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)

  • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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    18 hours ago

    I’ll go first.

    • I think there is a strong pro-Linux bias. It wouldn’t surprise me if 40+% use it on here.
    • People from the US seem over-represented, but less so compared to Reddit
    • There is a far stronger anti-capitalist sentiment on here than other social media
    • The average age seems to be much higher. I joined when I was 16 and feel quite young unlike on other social media.
    • Oka@sopuli.xyz
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      20 hours ago

      I’ll add:

      • AI bad
      • Piracy ok
      • Political posts are more frequent (Bias towards political expression)
      • More tech enthusiasts
      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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        18 hours ago

        “AI bad” overrides “Piracy ok”, though. 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.

        • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Just a guess. Because piracy advocacy isn’t about not paying, it’s about not supporting megacorporations and anti-artistic business models. It’s a form of protest, I suspect most advocates would buy media legally when it doesn’t feel enshittified.

          They would probably also support companies that used AI but did not fire workers as a result.

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            14 hours ago

            Because piracy advocacy here on the Fediverse is about that, yeah. You’re saying the same thing I am, that the Fediverse’s pro-piracy bias is “overridden” by its anti-AI bias.

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                10 hours ago

                Yes, exactly what I’m saying. People on the Fediverse hate AI more than they support piracy, because when there’s a situation that involves both enabling piracy and helping AI they will side with the anti-piracy side in order to hurt the AI side. The Fediverse has more of an anti-AI bias than it has a pro-piracy bias.

                • PastafARRian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  Hmm I still think we’re saying different things. Enabling piracy for consumers and rejecting it for big business come from the same beliefs. It’s not about piracy itself or hating AI more than liking piracy. It’s not about piracy at all but who is allowed to use it. It’s about content being controlled by the public, and not corporations. I think.

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                    It sounds to me like you’re just saying why your support for piracy is limited in this case. You’re saying “piracy’s okay, but not when those companies use it for those reasons.”

                    Having rules about who is “allowed” to copy stuff and for what reasons is, in a nutshell, copyright law.

      • qaz@lemmy.worldOP
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        19 hours ago
        • Piracy ok

        I’m not sure how true that is for the largest instance (lemmy.world) but apart from that it seems quite on point

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      19 hours ago

      I think you’re right on all these points, though it depends a bit on what part of the Fediverse you’re exposed to.

      On the point of anti-capitalism, I agree, but (again, depending on the part of the Fediverse) there’s also an incredibly high amount of open-minded people here, compared to other more mainstream social media (like Reddit). I speak much from my perspective of being from lemmy.zip, which I’m impressed by the healthiness of the community since I joined. But there are also less “healthy” instances like lemmy.ml which is considered by many to be infested with tankies (anti-capitalism?).

      And yes, the average age seems to be around mid-30s to me, based solely on how people speak and what they reminisce about.

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      17 hours ago

      I agree that the average age is higher. You’re the only other confirmed teenager that I have encountered while on Lemmy. I joined Lemmy when I was 17 during the Reddit emmigration.

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      19 hours ago
      • The average age seems to be much higher. I joined when I was 16 and feel quite young unlike on other social media.

      Enjoy. Less echo bubbles. This goes in both directions, but mainly I value that younger people are able to be part of “mature conversations”. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean to underestimate your worldview or anything. It’s just that I’m remembering when I was around your age, the Internet was in a raw form, and it felt much like this. I was amazed to be able to talk with other adults and learn about their tastes on say books or movies when I joined some theme specific chat channel (via protocol IRC). At some point this changed drastically (e.g. Facebook connecting people from real life/ schools)… and I think nowadays TikTok, Insta, and for the most part, even YouTube are just centered around being young, pretty… very much like mainstream TV.