I prefer making my own opinion of things. Consuming biased media will make me think a specific view is the truth, but there can be more to it

Biased media makes you think an opinion is the truth, and that’s dangerous for your critical thinking abilities

knowing trump is pissed off at many media, i’m not so sure about this

Anyways, any obviously biased media is close to useless to me

I don’t think sharing such biased media is useful

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Downvoting comments I don’t agree with doesn’t seem that bad either

It’s useful to show that not everyone thinks the same. When I see controversial comments and posts, it sparks my curiosity and I start really thinking about it

To each their own I guess

Downvoting posts in the All feed isn’t that bad, as it reduces their visibility if you believe it doesn’t interest you at all and probably most won’t interest many other people, so you let a chance to other posts to show up

Edit: typo

Your voice matters. Downvoting can be useful to prevent echo chambers (ex: downvoting lemmy.ml bs)

Now if the thing is just not fundamentally wrong like it’s just subjective and you don’t like it, yea it could harm, but the most likely is that less people will do it than people liking this type of content will upvote

Its only really problematic on smaller instances or if you do it continuously for every single post without a good valid reason

the whole “if you don’t like the content, don’t downvote, but just ignore / block it” is really cringe