To me it feels like a matured Reddit. (At least most of the time 🙃)
Right? And just like reddit,politics seeps in to every other page. We get it,you lean left(sometimes way far),but there’s a page for that. Keep it there. No one likes politics in their memes,at least I don’t, and I’m positive I’m not the only one.
It’s become the habit of leftist spaces since the first sign of the poisoning of a space by the right is usually in the humor. The cycle of “Oh I was just saying this racist thing to be edgy, I didn’t mean to be serious!” to “Oh you’re too sensitive you’re ruining everyone’s fun” to driving vulnerable minorities out of spaces because it’s just bloody toxic to explain when something is sucky and courting vicious attacks for being “political” when trying to stick up for themselves thus making what remains hotbeds of ever deepening unironic racism/sexism/queerphobia etc… Yeah. It does mean that any spaces with leftists left in them tend to be very corrective in the way they engage with memes and jokes.
I suppose it’s a little of a “this is how you get ants” situation in moderation.
Yep,and its inescapable,it seems. I was going to make a comment about all the things I see wrong with lemmy,but just read the replies,everybody else has the same gripes I do,lol. Good to know its not just me. But yeah,all polichickens are liars and thieves,but its annoying how people can be blind to their party doing/saying the same things as the other party.
I’m really starting to hate it, but really don’t want to go back to Reddit. Every post about Israel and capitalism makes me want to quit. I wish there was a better alternative.
i’ve been feeling the same way the last couple weeks. i like lemmy but there’s nothing to see here if you don’t want to talk about politics or linux, and it exhibits many of the same things i dislike about other social media platforms as well.
its also making me realize that maybe i don’t want “reddit when it didn’t suck so bad” but rather what would really bring me the happiness i’m seeking in reddit replacements is likely something entirely unrelated to social media.
For non political content, not bad, of course a lot smaller than reddit, but it’s a good start.
But the left wing populism echochamber is a bit annoying. It’s ok to have an opinion, but all the silly so easy to refute things that get repeated here over & over again because it sounds nice & fits the agenda is just annoying… “Why do billionaires need more money?” because they’re addicted to ego & power, it’s not about the money. “The right wing are so violent, we are the good guys”, every other thread: eat the rich, prepare the guillotines. -insert a not so common incident that supports an agenda- 'see, this happens all the time, we should do -insert short sighted measure that will just cause different problems-. etc…
I’d love all those topics to be actually seriously discussed here, but so far it feels like it’s just edgy teens shouting whatever fits the popular narratatives…
I find it more neckbeard than Reddit, and I mean that in the most offensive way. Reddit was big enough that there were lots of places they either didn’t participate or were so rare as to not be annoying. They’re everywhere here on the big, fully federated servers.
By the same token, the semi-federated, more restrictive instances (yes, I mean beehaw) are actually quite nice places and really does feel like a mature place to casually discuss things.
In general, though, lemmy is a desert or ghost town of vibrant niche, non-IT focused communities with regular participation.
How are we defining “neckbeard” here? Actual assholes, bigots, angry hateful people? Or we just using that as a catch all for tech enthusiasts? I see a lot of conflating between the two.
The tech crowd is always there first. They’re the early adopters, so yeah, place is gonna have a lot of those. That was true on Reddit in its early days too. That goes hand in hand with a move to a decentralized platform like this. I’m continually puzzled by people that seem to think this is unusual. We came here to escape a centralized, increasingly walled and corporate controlled space…so yeah, lots of tech enthusiasts, FOSS-heads, and Linux users will be here. Where else would they be?
If Reddit was a water park, Lemmy is the small adult jacuzzi room in the back.
