I look at in different terms. If the more moderate members of a group (lemmy.ml), stop engaging with extremists (lemmygrad)… the extremists will be stuck in an echo chamber with no stabilising influence.
I genuinely hope you are right that moderating influence can out-influence the echo chamber. I really don’t want Lemmy to go the way of 4chan. Here’s hoping!
I will grant your counterpoint, but my counter-counterpoint is that Lemmy.ml is the devs own instance, isn’t it? Kind of a bad look…
I look at in different terms. If the more moderate members of a group (lemmy.ml), stop engaging with extremists (lemmygrad)… the extremists will be stuck in an echo chamber with no stabilising influence.
My goodness… thoughtful political discourse! I think I’m going to like it here.
I genuinely hope you are right that moderating influence can out-influence the echo chamber. I really don’t want Lemmy to go the way of 4chan. Here’s hoping!