I’m looking for communities and websites where controversial issues are neither censored or insta toxic flame wars. instead looking for something that is formatted for open in depth discussion. You might say “you have arrived” here on Lemmy, what else is out there?
I don’t think it’s especially likely that you’ll find consistently interesting, well-reasoned discussion through any platform bringing together anonymous strangers in an ephemeral manner.
I think consistently interesting discussion has shared stakeholding as a foundational aspect - participants need to actually care, either because the discussion is a product of some commitment they’ve each made (e.g. reading something for a book club), or because the participants are familiar with each other and the outcome tangibly matters (e.g. a physical town hall meeting).
Otherwise, I think you’re more likely to get what you’re looking for from adopting some tangential hobby and having those discussions with the friends you get through that.
I find Tildes is pretty good for this sort of thing, as long as you take the time to actually write something decent behind the post to show you are asking / debating in good faith and not just being an asshole.
And see what you think… if it’s for you, you can email admin for an invite (which can take a couple of weeks due to backlog) or find another user with invites left to invite you (I’m out at the moment)
I’m imagin8ng a self dissecting discussion where topics are sorted into a table of contents at the top (highlighting opposing but reasoned viewpoints), and quality discussions can follow the fractal comment threads. If you know of this an6where, I want to know.
You haven’t “arrived on lemmy”. Stuff aren’t being cencored people just hate the people who randomly start fights in bad faith and call it a debate. Or chronically online people who for long haven’t touched grass who randomly DM you and say that they want to debate.
Just looking for a debate platform where there are moderated debates. Many platforms are censored or over moderated beyond their specified guidelines.
But I’m not looking for just a thread platform with no moderation, I’m looking for a public platform where logical debate on hard topics is part of the design.
There isn’t. Either a platform is skewed to one side, people take an argument against a stand as an agument against themselves, or people argue in bad faith. If you want instances where controversial topics are openly spoke of check out the instances page and scroll down to the bottom to the blocked instances.
That public toilet across from the Institute For Public Services is pretty good. I’d avoid Tindahan Asian Foodmart though, the people there didn’t seem very interested in discussion.
Cool cause not sure how comparing logical debate to the content of human waste is very funny.
All the upvotes on his coment already shows how this place is just following in the footsteps of reddit: a place for one sided opinions and sarcastic suppression.
I mean they were just trying to bridge the gap between the picture and the content. I’m not sure how it’s one-sided or suppression. Weren’t there others who helped?
Sorry it’s my first post. It’s an abstract topic, no real image goes with it so i just picked a landscape image which was on first few that popped up when i pressed “browse” on my phone.
But I updated the image almost immediately because you pointed out the image was too random. Now it’s an illustration of two people talking.
Still no real response though and everyone kept upvoting his comment even with this new image, so again putting debate in the public toilet is what is getting voted on here. 🤷🏼
It’s a serious question, looking for platform that facilitate serious discussion. That’s the topic now overshadowed by this thread.
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