It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media. Reddit has many issues, but lack of women is not one of them.
4 times the same post in 4 different identically named communities…
I want a global feed, communities can federate with in a sort of sub-lemmy.Having to block 30 different communities because they’re all literally the same community.
It’s even worse for NSFW communities. We don’t need eleventy billion communities for the same super niche porn content.
That and people posting the same things on multiple communities because it technically fits even though there’s already a niche community specifically for that topic.
This is the biggest thing, in my opinion. Decentralization is a double-edged sword.
If I cared about my Lemmy usage more, I might be inclined to build myself a service that aggregates similar topics into larger groups.
Piefed has that feature already.
Crossposting the same post is kind of pointless still. You can browse all and won’t miss anything.
The NSFW stuff is mostly automated reposting from somewhere else. It’s low quality and kind of worthless.
The nice thing about having an instance dedicated to porn is that you can just block one instance, and that gets you 90% of the way there.
Concern trolling about the fediverse or lemmy.
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Try Blorp
I’ve run into or seen folks who can’t walk away from a bad conversation.
One of the most interesting aspects about the Fediverse is also the most confusing one in practice: the communication across different platforms. E.g. the ability to communicate from Lemmy to Mastadon is incredible. However whenever that happens, it’s difficult to even realize that it’s happening. It could an extremely useful feature, but currently, at least on Lemmy, it’s just confusing.
In Lemmy itself I’m annoyed by (too) many things, but mostly they are related to our behavior and stubbornness. Nonetheless, with all its faults overall Lemmy is still my “favorite” social media.
It’s also weird how sharing posts from one to another is so rudimentary.
Everyone on Lemmy has a tiny penis and severe personality disorder. I blend in too much.
Not enough artists posting their weird shit. Analogue Nowhere rules but i need more
The thing that concerns me the most about federated content, is that a malicious actor could post something horrible/illegal (CSAM as the obvious example) and that gets replicated across the instances. Now those instances are “hosting” the content and could be held liable for it. A major corporation can pay lawyers to say the content was user posted and they are not responsible (happens all the time) but your average Lemmy admin does not have the same resources to defend themselves.
North Korea shill. Seriously. How absolutely dumbfuck do you have to be to actually believe there is even the slightest good in that regime? It hurts me personally that I’m Korean and that I’ve seen countless people, some I’ve met in person, who lost their families in that hellhole. And yet people who can’t even spell Kim Jong Un or Juche are celebrating that prison of a kingdom.
Nothing about them are “left” or “progressive”. To me, they’re worse than MAGA shitheads.
Absolutely disgusting. Hope they all rot in North Korea.
Sometimes I don’t really want to get into a conversation about trans issues. I find the topic very prevalent on here, as if I’ve strayed into a sub by accident. Live and let live, and absolutely respect everyone’s right to be whatever they want, but it’s not a topic I can contribute to - and I certainly I don’t want to upset anyone by wading into an emotive topic I have no experience, interest or knowledge on, so I’d rather just leave it.
I’m just saying that it’s up there with LINUX as a prevailing topic, which I’m similarly disinterested in.
Then don’t get into a conversation about trans issues. You can also replace ‘trans issues’ with any other topics. Curate your own feed if it bothers you so much to see other people’s conversations.
Indeed you can, and that was my point. If a significant portion of posts here were on Basketball I’d make broadly the same argument. This is hardly an insanely busy place as is, so if a specific topic that I’m not interested in is frequently posted surely you can see how that impacts the experience from my perspective. I’ve neither the time nor inclination to curate a feed. Did that on Reddit when I had to, but we’re not there yet. I’m simply answering the question.
Sorry other people existing is such a problem for you personally.
Where are you getting that?
I mean, FFS my comment literally said “Live and let live, and absolutely respect everyone’s right to be whatever they want”. And now I don’t want other people to exist? How do you even get through a day?
I don’t complain about having to see other people doing their own thing. Weird how that upsets you so much that you have to write comments about how that impacts your personal experience of a platform for people to discuss their interests.
It doesn’t upset me. It just doesn’t interest me. Neither do you, for that matter.
One doth protest too much, methinks.
Not necessarily saying that this is what you’re doing, but there is a sort of bigotry against trans people that clouds itself in nice sounding language of “live and let live”.
Like when people used to say, “Oh, I don’t mind gay people, they can do whatever they want! …I just don’t want to see that kind of behavior in public”.
Honestly, if you’re reading “Live and let live, and absolutely respect everyone’s right to be whatever they want” as some sort of thinly disguised transphobia then I’m not sure what to say. This is exactly the reason I prefer to avoid these conversations.
Its not the words themselves that give me pause in your initial comment. Its the dismissive seeming tone.
If you don’t wanna get into arguments about trans people, that’s fine, there lots of ways to curate your experience here.
But if you’re finding yourself constantly having these kinds of discussions, maybe your dismissive tone isn’t exactly helping matters. Again, i point to the “I support gay people! As long as they don’t do it in public!” Example
It’s a moral prop. Sort of like pedophilia is for the right, for the left trans issues lets them concern troll and beat everyone over the head with how noble they are for supporting it and how evil anyone is who doesn’t agree 110%. Most of the comments I see about trans issues on here are not even positive, they are mostly ‘if you don’t support trans rights 120% and believe in the removal of heterosexuality, you’re a bigot/nazi/genocide supporter’. It’s insane. but I have no doubt people genuinely think that way because I know ones like that IRL. They tend to be deeply insecure and fragile people who’s coping mechanism is just being insanely irrationally angry. They are just the leftist MAGA types of people.
How is it concern trolling when there are actual concerns about trans people’s continued ability to exist in public life?
believe in the removal of heterosexuality
LMAO No one believes this, but I might start spouting it as a joke, if it’ll make you feel better.
What would “the removal of heterosexuality” even look like? Please, go on! We’re all sooo curious.
Like, the concept of there being two sexes, maybe? In reality, not just as something fluid you can just decide on a whim. Unless they actually meant “transpeople will make everyone gay”, which I doubt, lol.
‘if you don’t support trans rights … you’re a bigot/nazi/genocide supporter’
It’s better to remain silent than proclaim your bigotry if you don’t want to participate in the marketplace of ideas.
Nobody believes what you claim they do, many trans folk are heterosexual. Supporting trans rights is a good thing, and opposing it is bigoted. “Left MAGA” doesn’t exist.
I’ve seen people get downvoted and banned for posting actual scientific research on puberty blockers, detransitioning, links between autism and trans.
The last one is undeniable for a subsection of transfolk. The “neurodivergent, isolated kid on 4chan that gets programmer socks and starts their transition” path is well known.
Autism and trans has a huge overlap. Explanations and Interpretations for this vary.
Discussing this and the pipeline you describe will quickly get you banned from many places around here.
I’ll leave this comment in place in order to debunk it.
You are misquoting the study you have referenced. A read of the abstract showed zero consideration of whether there was any correlation between autism and trans.
Please don’t post misinformation!
The common overlap between autism, elevated autistic traits, and gender identity diversity has been reported in both clinical (de Vries et al. 2010; Hisle-Gorman et al. 2019) and community (Strauss et al. 2017; Walsh et al. 2018) samples. In the largest study to date, the odds of an autism diagnosis were more than six times greater among transgender (or broadly gender-diverse) individuals than among those who were cisgender (Warrier et al. 2020).
These links support your assertion. Thank you.
I have a few things.
This place has groups that are singlemindedly bloodthirsty and happy to see people hurt, particularly in the US, and don’t have a problem stating so.
Tangentially - the far left extolling the virtues of governing systems that have never really worked due to weak protections against takeover by bad actors and ignoring that those systems are just as corruptible as any other. Humans are f’d up and someone always games the system for personal or tribal advantage.
Linux. Yeah, it’s great. No, it cannot do everything Windows does, and we’re going to ignore that and deride you for playing AAA studio games that have anticheat that linux breaks or other software that doesn’t work on the OS. That’s your fault, we’ll be smug about it, and still recommend ditching Windows.
Conspiracies. This place acts like it has some superior thought or logic but as soon as something happens the conspiratards immediately make it a conspiracy and can’t be told otherwise regardless of logic - or accept a far more real but less exciting conspiracy. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon.
Lastly it’s missing the hobby and interest groups. It’s mostly memes and politics. I’d like to see more actual communities of interests and the support for the hobby on the Fediverse rather than the constant grind of how f’d up the world is.
You should follow Wren from my instance. They have a bunch of really cool and niche hobbies they share. They actually got me to make my own paper with junk mail.
That sounds like fun. Do they have a /c or just post random stuff?
They mod a few communities where they post artsy stuff like making paper, diy book binding, and just now I saw something on cool rocks by them. So kinda both.
the communities here that thrive have massive superiority complexes.
the reason hobby subs here don’t thrive is the userbase here isn’t interested in being humble or chill the way many such communities are humble and chill.
This place has groups that are singlemindedly bloodthirsty and happy to see people hurt, particularly in the US, and don’t have a problem stating so.
It’s so tiring. I did my job, I voted, I told my friends to vote, I send a few emails every now and then to my reps, I go to protests, I try to self host and avoid some companies, and I cheer when foreigners say they want to distance from the US. I live, still. But it’s hard to not feel like shit when every other post or comment is “If you guys love guns so much then use them,” and, “All Americans are trash and wanted this,” and, “If Nepal could do it, why can’t they do it too?”
It’s exhausting to hear. It’s not that simple. We can’t just solve every political issue with weapons and violence, because then you just get another tyrant pn the throne eventually. We are not all racists who are eager to see our immigrant neighbors get kidnapped from the streets. I feel helpless about the suffering that is happening around me, and the fact that people who aren’t here experiencing it just get to joke, laugh, and shame makes it hard to stay on this site sometimes.
Lemmy’s tankies are massively annoying, almost as bad as MAGA and the neo-libs on reddit. There are also plenty of young, naive “I just learned theory” kids who obviously are too socially anxious to actually debate in more public spaces but feel empowered here because the bubbles here are just as insular and delusional as anywhere else.
You really see it when you say something unpopular but true like “There’s not going to be a revolution in the USA, we’re nowhere close to a civil war, we need community organizing and coordinated electoral action” and you get like, 30 downvotes and no replies.
I forgot about the tankies, pretty sure they’re blocked on my instance 😂
Lucky, they love to roleplay and get sooooo mad when you give nuanced takes about real-life. Horseshoe theory is real.
Oh boy. I should spend more time on the other two instances I’m on lol. Not that I wanna see that but I do wanna know what’s happening everywhere to a degree.
conspiracies
Lots of outright misinformation gets posted and cheerfully upvoted, if it confirms biases.
Antisemitism is so widespread, it’s actually scary.
The lack of people. We need more people on the Fediverse.
The instances wars.
