Came across this community in my feed, and after browsing a bit I'm intrigued.
As an "outsider", I would have assumed this place would be about enjoying a childfree lifestyle, but it seems to be more than that.
For example, I see lots of posts and comments that seem to allude to extinctionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
That caught me off guard since I figured this place would be more like "look at all this free time and money and freedom I have to enjoy my life to the fullest in any way I want". Now I'm curious.
It seems like there's a whole spectrum of ideas that are getting lumped into the same bucket. What's your take? What brought you here?
For me it is first and foremost that I don't want children in my life. I won't have them, and I won't live with or date anyone who has them.
I love my nieces and nephews, and have always enjoyed their company. As a skateboard and snowboard instructor I've always enjoyed seeing kids learn new things and how excited they get.
But in my home, in my personal life, they simply aren't welcome.
The money, freedom, free time, etc, are all bonuses, but they are not the driving factor.
I want a calm, quiet, peaceful home. I want uninterrupted sleep. I do not want to spend any time cleaning up after someone else, or having to make my space child safe.
I also don't want to have to deal with other parents, teachers, or navigating the ever changing social landscape that young people seem so wrapped up in.
In the end, there isn't a single benefit I can see to having a child, and a near endless list of stresses I can just do without.
Finding the childfree reddit years ago was the first time I had found a community which supported this lifestyle, so when I moved to Lemmy joining this was an obvious choice.
ya having no extra stressors at home was probably one of my biggest motivating factors.
I im thoroughly in the camp that NOBODY who works a 40 hour work week and has to come home to raise kids is able to stay sane. the 40 hour work week is archaic and self destructive as far as my experience has shown me. Im not taking on an extra stressor that will surely land me into a psych ward.
I was childfree before Reddit existed. I'm on Lemmy because of the deliberate enshittification of Reddit. (I haven't fully abandoned Reddit, though.)
my question is how do you stand the currnt reddit?
I tried to switch to old.reddit and I need a login to access it but since reddit has given me a lifetime IP ban....
Would you say that "community support of the lifestyle" is the main draw here? It seems like there's a lot of content here about how society in general tries to paint not having kids as a weird choice.