There was a post on !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world called "Lemmy is losing the war against reddit. How do we change things?" Looks like it was removed but there were a couple good discussions there. In a discussion with (I think it was) @hendrik@palaver.p3x.de we came up with this.
Normal people dont exist. Everyone is a freaky weirdo
I like being a freaky weirdo!
Lemmy users are normal people. However, only compared to other white males in their late twenties to mid thirties working in the tech industry. At least that's what a survey on the German instance showed. Depending on your instance, the main variables are probably country of origin, sexual orientation and whether or not you're still male - but statistically, that's what you've been born as.
Compared to the general population, we're probably more tech savvy, have higher education and therefore more money (mileage depends once again on you country of origin), are more left-leaning and we count way more furries among us.
This is just so blatantly wrong.
I’m in my mid forties.
Yeah and I’m only half white jeez
Yeah, it's a weird bunch. Somehow "leftist" while also having a penchant for sexism and odd racism.
I've seen people dogmatically defend MTF trans women, all while still being sexist towards women in general. Pretty sure a lot of people on here only defend women who make their dicks hard.
I've also seen a bunch of white people try to "educate" actual Asian people over asian culture because they've based their personalities on communism or anime.
It really does feel like early Reddit.
while also having a penchant for sexism and odd racism.
I literally haven't seen any of this. Can you provide some examples?
I def see the leftist leanings, but Lemmy as a whole seems super progressive on those topics. You're not the first person I've heard say this though, and I'm wondering if in just missing it by sticking to popular posts and top level comments. Am I missing something big here?
You might be missing it because you may be avoiding the more toxic instances like hexbear. They had a little schism a couple weeks ago when they attempted to tamp down on sexism and racism by handing out temporary bans. However, there was a big backlash because a lot of their more active posters caught bans and messed up user engagement .
The mods ended up getting accused of trying to slow down the "revolution".
I remember the discourse surrounding the man vs. bear thing was less than ideal. Lots of people seemed to feel personally offended that any woman would choose the bear.
So Reddit 2010s demographic.
Basically, but with mildly different flavour profiles. Instead of being hounded about men's rights from a fascist, it's being validated by some weird version of a communist.
Um, aktuly, everyone on checks instance feddit.uk are incredibly normal and cool but everyone on checks rival instance lemmy.world are the freaks and losers. And don't even get me started on . They're trying to ruin the whole community. I just downvote them whenever I see them.
yeah!
Nice meme, curious to see what the comment will be.
On !fedigrow@lemm.ee and !fediverse@lemmy.world there is a post with a compilation of complaints with Lemmy, maybe that can be interesting too
what a freaky weirdo response ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Here's a controversial opinion: this also applies to the "tankie" instances.
Memes about the Fediverse