Nah. Everyone’s spiraling into our own little bubbles, including us on Lemmy (albeit more slowly without algos to gas it). And no one is interested in stopping it.

I mean, this is “Advice” meme, not a “This is how things are currently going” meme.

But one observation I’ve had is that most conservatives (with some exceptions, like libertarian-leaners or small business types) seem to consolidate around authority figures. Kinda like fundamentalist churches/megachurches. Leftists, on the other hand, generally consolidate around ideologies, which ultimately yields far less unity.

The issue is not so much the ideology as the tribalism. Tribalism around a central authority figure tends to be stable in composition, while tribalism around an ideology (including non-leftist ideologies like religions) tends to be unstable in composition, because one is based on solidarity with another member of the tribe (who is thus, by definition, part of the tribe), while the latter requires consideration of what positions makes one part of the tribe, which invariably ends up with different answers from different people.

In both cases, the tribalism (or rather, the exclusions caused by the tribalism) is the core problem, not the exact form it takes.