I like that when someone creates a community, It usually just becomes a diary for them being able to post what they wanna see, I think we could all be nicer to each other in these trying times
Edit: damn y’all, don’t just say the bad thing you gotta say a good thing too
I’d love to see more niche content. I post to my city and country comms regularly, but there isn’t a lot in either.
It’d also be nice to see a few more viewpoints. Generally we all agree with each other. Any disagreement tends to be nitpicky and minor, rather than conversation worthy.
Agree on niche content, theres like barely anything for the fandoms that I’m in on here
You can always hop on lemmy.ml and talk about politics if you want to disagree with someone.
If you express a non-dominant viewpoint you get downvoted and insulted and threatened. Or the mods remove your posts, even if they are thoughtful and respectful. a lot of communities here have singular default viewpoints, that are extremist in nature.
The userbase itself is preventing diversity by attacking anyone, often violently, who doesn’t agree with them. Usually under the pretense that their viewpoint is the ONLY moral/good/correct one, and any alternative viewpoint is immoral/evil/wrong and you should therefore die. they believe the world consists of mutually exclusive binary choices.
It’s incredible pathetic. They also seem to play the game that any alternative viewpoint is also an existential threat to themselves… further justifying their need for violence.
A majority of the userbase here just want to live in their victim-bully echo chambers where they are free to slander others who are different than them and perpetually cast themselves as victims of those same others. They are trapped in their self-manufactured cycles of rage and shame.
I agree with the sentiment. We’re in an echo chamber with little interest in change.
People being mean to you in a text medium isn’t violence bro
Yeah it is. Intimidation, threats, and reporting you maliciously to remove your comments are all forms of violence.
They aren’t physical violence. But emotional and psychological violence are very real.
Violence is using coercive force to get what you want. Bullying is a form of violence.
I echo this sentiment. Reddit is just better for niche stuff.
too many people scattered after the last big instance shut down. not enough from reddit will jump over. used to have more varied topics.
Unfortunately, hasty defederation has made this impossible. It’s too easy for people in a community to ask for defederation instead of confronting other people’s viewpoints. Not to mention that when very contentious topics are brought up and there are whole communities full of people who dedicate a lot of time to reading about and thinking about those topics, it can create a poor situation where that community suddenly starts an outburst of too many disagreeing viewpoints. Compound that with the extremely fractured state of information and media where people live in completely different realities. It gets to be too much, and it’s exceedingly difficult to have a civil conversation when the gulf between 2 communities is so large.
Wanna name some examples? Because right now, it just sounds like a tankie bemoaning people not wanting the toxic waste that is your ideology flooding into their instances – through .ml but especially through the noxious cesspit of insufferable losers that is Hexbear.
Edit: And I’d add that defederation is barely a part of this. The main problem is simply that Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of users, and so niche posts tend to receive minimal attention and effectively no discussion. I moderate a few niche-ish (but not that niche) communities on Lemmy.World (federated with .ml), and decent-enough posts I make there get effectively nothing.
While there are more significant causes, one such cause is that sane people don’t want a social media where at every other step is a tankie shitting their pants about how North Korea is based as hell and how dare you impugn Kim Jong Un’s name. I live with the tankies because I’d sooner quit social media than use Reddit again, but I never said I was sane. (Plenty also wouldn’t like all the ancom shit, but I’m close-ish ideologically, and I at least recognize they’re good people with good intentions and not just blatant, cowardly liars.)
Yeah you’re exactly right, as I said we live in completely different and irreconcilable realities. The fact of the matter is, given the option between sitting down with people like myself (Hexbear user) who have extremely different views, or just hitting the button that makes us all go away, the vast majority of people will just hit the button. It’s not really even a liberal thing, people behave that way regardless of ideology (although I think there’s something particular about how atomized and depersonalizing the current state of social media is that makes that kind of behavior more common).
But you see my point — you’re perfectly within your rights to think that everyone who’s a socialist/Marxist/whatever has gone too far or whatever, and not wish to interact with them. Replicate similar preferences across a whole community, though, and it ends up isolating them and creating the situation that the root comment of this thread is lamenting. We’re just little echo chambers siloed off from each other because the cognitive dissonance of experiencing each other’s versions of reality is too much.