Inspired by this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/19408108
I’d like more people on here that don’t use the words normies or NPCs, yes. I have interests besides news, tech, and politics that aren’t really strongly represented here yet.
Yes
Do you want to see more normies on Lemmy?
I honestly just don’t care what kind of people are on Lemmy as long as they’re friendly. Those who are not friendly are just immediately blocked by me, so I don’t see their comments (behavior).
To comment on your comment;
If someone asks a question about an issue with Windows, I don’t need to see nothing but Linux evangelism
I’m a Windows 11 user and never had this problem. Sure there might be comments saying they prefer Linux overall but that does not make the comment section less-friendly. Overall when it comes to tech questions, I have had great help (Windows, RSS-feeds, Piracy and even just Prime subtitle issues).
There’s a disproportionate number of truly toxic people on here who love preaching about their particular fixation, usually political, usually far leftist (compared to the world at large).
So toxicity is on every platform, Lemmy too. Block those who are toxic and your problem slowly but steadily solves by itself. I once read somewhere to most Tech-savvy people tend to be more Left-leaning, which is fine. If you don’t agree with their viewpoints, thats fine too. Just ignore it. The problem is the more right-leaning a community becomes, the much more toxic it becomes. It becomes less about tech, debates and much more about hating ‘the other’.
I, personally, are more centre-leaning and had checked more right-leaning communties and oh boy - It was pretty much 90% hates, dislikes and not so friendly things about ‘‘the other side’’, ‘‘the other people’’ and such than actual useful debates and comments.
All of those viewpoints are fine, but in moderation and without vitriol.
When I just joined, I read that Lemmy is mostly for tech-people. So it’s obvious that more Linux, piracy and overall tech users are here. It does align with how people have to join Lemmy and setup their subscribes for communties and all.
I often enjoy arguing politics. But not everything has to be a crusade.
So that’s the major issue with Politics. People are just hot-headed and very steadfast in their political opinion. It’s obvious there will be lot of arguing and crusade. It happens on every platform (Lemmy, Reddit, X, Insta and you name it).
- Not sure whether ‘‘steadfast’’ was the right word, English isn’t my native langauge and kind of tried to translate the native word into English.
And for the love of Christ, I want more NSFW topics. Dating, sex, porn.
I rather not. I blocked NSFW content, there are dating apps and such. Sex and porn are categorized within the NSFW content.
Block those who are toxic and your problem slowly but steadily solves by itself.
For me personally, yes. But it makes the overall site worse. Like a tragedy of the commons almost.
For me personally, yes. But it makes the overall site worse. Like a tragedy of the commons almost.
I don’t think there’s anything to do against that but correct me if I’m wrong. There are rules already to try counter that problem but there’s only so much a community can do against it. Every platform has this particular issue (some worse than the other). The best thing to ‘fight’ against it for yourself is blocking the particular people and communties.
You can call them out when you see it. This helps the community, but makes your personal experience worse because you’re always fighting.
People keep saying they want more NSFW, but no one wants to host it themselves. Maybe like there is risk involved allowing NSFW content?
Lemmynsfw.com is still around
Maybe like there is risk involved allowing NSFW content?
I think the risk of getting certain unwanted content posted on it. Though, I’m not sure how it all works with the content that’s posted and the owner of the instance. Though there are certainly NSFW communities (I, personally, just blocked them because that’s not my jam).
“I’m sure it exists, I just blocked it because I personally don’t like it” - everyone on lemmy
Communities outside of tech and politics are very very small and slow. Especially anything NSFW. There’s a lot of prudish and ace people in the current crop of lemmy users.
No, I want more weirdos. Philosopher, artists, and madmen. Misunderstood geniuses on the wrong side of the law. Grown adults who play with (not collect, play with) Lego. Urban utility cyclists. Artisanal cheesemakers. Artisanal videogame makers. People rewriting the Bible for the postmodern era. Macro-scale scavenger hunters. Ghosts of Christmas yet-to-come. People who learned all their longest words from books and would only be guessing as to how they’re pronounced.
Yes.
And less people who are desperate to differentiate themselves from others they deem unworthy of their companionship because they…like to go out? Like to socialise with others? Ok that last one is an horrifying, alien concept to me. But come on! We have to be better than this. Please?
