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Meta: Can we talk about non "Apple Enthusiasts" dominating the threads on c/apple_enthusiasts? (lemmy.world)
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Since a lot of folks sort by “all” on Lemmy, popular posts get overwhelmed by people who don’t daily drive operating systems like iOS or MacOS.

I like outside perspectives and all, but when the majority of the “community” discussion is coming from people who aren’t even using these products, it is pretty hard to have informed conversations.

Moreover, I feel like this type of engagement creates a lot of threads that get pretty combative and catty. They’re often started by people who are trying to argue and convince iOS / MacOS users that they’ve picked the wrong side of the fence.

Anyone else feel me on this? I imagine this is a problem for other communities on Lemmy as well.

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[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 10 points 2 years ago (12 children)

This is an endemic problem on Lemmy and is part of why I'm mostly done with it (I'm just lurking around right now to keep an eye on my instance I'm decommissioning).

There's no point in trying to build a community with a very hostile environment for anything that doesn't align with the very odd hostile-against-everything-not-OSS zeitgeist.

Take a look at !tesla@lemmy.world. The folks downvoting don't even own EVs and just spam bad takes on News and Politics communities.

Ironically Reddit is a healthier place.

[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What do you mean my lurking? You posted 5 times today and apart from a 2 week break you took (vacation?) you at least post daily and amassed 600+ comments in 10 Month.

[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 1 points 2 years ago

Sure, I did make a couple comments between today and yesterday, including this one, so I'm not sure where the "gotcha" is here.

I signed in yesterday to check how a deletion script of mine would work and decided to scroll around. Yesterday I saw a social security thread that was some news I didn't come across yet, and today I saw this thread in my list of active threads as I tabbed back and it piqued my interest.

If you're curious about my future activity:

  • In a day or two I'll be making an announcement post in an announcements community saying I have a tool to help purge user posts
  • In about a week-10 days I'll make a final "hey! this instance is shutting down real soon!"
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