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This is the way to do it though. These posts are meant to make you feel a certain way, that's it. Lemmy is starting to fall into similar traps reddit did, with certain accounts doing all the heavy lifting on posting, and so now we have people or entities using this to basically decide how the regular Joe schmo (i.e. me) should feel. And we often see editorialized titles, cherry picked info from articles, and obviously biased sources.
Despite my cynical view on the information presented, I am generally in agreement with most of it, but I do feel it's presented in such a way to foster anger and sadness among the readers, and that just makes me question motivation. Information should be presented and the reader should come to their own conclusions, and it is not what happens.
Where Lemmy excels, at least for now, is that there is still some discourse. Posts that are negatively voted are not disappeared into obscurity as they are on Reddit. We haven't yet sunk to having a hive mind opinion, but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility, and it's probably likely it occurs, because, like I said, I think we've already got bots and entities posting like they're individuals.