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.
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.
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 support for hobbies on the Fediverse rather than the constant grind of how f’d up the world is.
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.
edit: also, yeah the linux cult is a bit overboard, I find myself resisting learning more about it just because how snooty and/or obsessive the community here is. AAaaaand there’s the frowny angry bois seeing something that makes them feel ouchy and slamming the arrows as if that makes me shut up.
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.
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.
Lots of outright misinformation gets posted and cheerfully upvoted, if it confirms biases.
Antisemitism is so widespread, it’s actually scary.
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.