Re:Half Blamed the EU for Their Problems, Blame Facebook for...
by happyslobro on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @02:50PM
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Sorry, I didn't mean you specifically. You're right, we don't know each other at all. I was trying to make a general observation about the community.
One thing that I didn't remember earlier, is that there is an exceptionally high percentage of deep, introspective people here. That's pretty cool.
Gee, I don't think that. Why do you think I have such an opinion? I am from Germany (the eastern part), and have family members who are AFD-supporters and worse. So I do realize that most people (esp. here where I live) don't share my liberal world views. But in contrast to them I don't just get my news / filterbubble-content from facebook. I read conservative Newspapers that disagree with my opinions, because it is important to look beyond your own Horizon (even though I constantly get mad when I read the likes of Jasper von Altenbockum).
> I'm not sure to what degree that varies by subreddit
A lot, I am mostly on smallish/specialized subreddits: erlang, haskell, spaceengine, gis. There not much conflict potential fairly few trolls.
Oh and by the way: the best dialogues I had on Hacker news were technical, not political. Also I don't think that the HN-crowd is that homogeneous.