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 still don’t understand how to navigate the ins and outs of Lemmy and I’ve been here since RIF was killed
Lol same
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Agree. I like tech and I’m subscribed to tech communities. But not a whole lot other than that here.
That was reddit when it first started it just takes time the problem is reddit people want to speed run this and created a bunch of communities then abandoned them or filled them with AI Slop. Only making it harder for stuff to grow organically. I do wish Lemmy and Piefed had a network global name space for communities like how IRC does channels.
it just takes time
It takes more than just that, though. Reddit’s UI and mod tools are more powerful, and the Fediverse as both a concept and a practical entity are more demanding and trickier to understand and use.
The clashing ideologies makes it hard to gain traction for the fediverse. Since no one ever agrees on things, it ironically turns into the politics people complain about with the republicans vs democrats always being at a stalemate.
I do kinda miss having a total karma count. Not that it ever really meant anything, but number go up is fun
People actually paid attention to that number? I don’t get the point.
The only time it matters is when you create a new account and can’t post anywhere due to low karma. Losing my points whenever I made a new account never concerned me one bit.
My beef is that too many people are grinding Karma by posting the same crap to as many communities as possible, even though there’s no Karma system, but they aren’t there to discuss anything. So my feed is just all these OPs with no comments on them. Like you want me to read an article, or god forbid a 45 minute YouTube video, but you’re not gonna start the conversation? Or reply to the people who do reply to you? Too many people looking for an audience; not enough people looking for conversation.
Pretty much just that.
It’s not karma farming there in many cases, it’s just trying to support the Fediverse.
I block most posters that post more than once a day. Some people have 3 month old accounts with 4k posts. No thanks.
The topics aren’t as varied here, reddit pretty much has a subreddit for any niche community you can imagine.
I like the community more here though. People are generally supportive and there seem to be fewer unrestrained jerks.
there seem to be fewer unrestrained jerks
I wish. I’d say it’s proportionally about the same.
Blocking people is just the same as muting them. I prefer people I block to not be able to see or interact with me ever again.
My least favorite part is the toxic blue maga types, just painful to engage with in general and they’re always trying to make conversarions about who you voted for.
The worst bit is how smug and condescending they are about it, thinking they’re the adults in the room when they’re more like the pigeon shitting on the chessboard and strutting around like they’ve won.
People calling each and every one an extremist, fascist or nazi for no other reason than they are being blinded by their own inability to understand their counterparts viewpoint. As irony would have it causing themselves to become extremists, often proclaiming they wish voilence or sometimes even death upon other people.
Seriously, I’m so tired of people here baselessly slinging those insults every time someone has the wrong opinion. I’m tempted to start naming and shaming.
Fewer places to talk about fun things.
It is objectively a lot more male than Reddit or other social media.
Reddit circa 2010 was very male, nerdy, and often misogynistic. As it gained popularity, the community became more diverse. As it got more traction, these issues abated somewhat. Once it hit critical mass and became totally mainstream, the audience was diverse enough to make most people forget how it used to be. I miss when Reddit was at the “sweet spot” of being pretty diverse, yet not corporatized to shit.
Lemmy/Fediverse is still in its “early Reddit” stage now. It shows great potential but its basic premise and design probably prevents absolute mainstream adoption. Which is probably a good thing, but I would like to get closer to the sweet spot.
but lack of women is not one of them.
See now this is a lie, at least if you filter by certain subreddits lol.
The last time I was on that slopfest of a site, r/Gaming was filled to the brim with posts that all followed the title of “Playing X game with my female SO” and a photo that in no way showed the SO.
So I know for a fact everyone was lying that they had a SO to play with lmao.
The fucking politics oh my god, in every fucking community good lord. No way to filter it out either.
This is a mostly Western place and two big Western players might have just started WW3 (okay, hopefully and probably not but still), I feel like it’s warranted.
People keep supporting socialism when it is painfully obvious they don’t know what the word even means.
Not every positive thing the government does is “socialism”
Social programs instituted by the government are not “socialism”
What you’re actually supporting is democratic socialism and has nothing to do with communism or socialism as a philosophy.
Nah comrade, I want to seize the means of production!
Aka the most useless argument that gets repeated on lemmy over and over. It has about as much use as “I’ll join the revolution as soon as some other people start it.”
I am forced to see posts in communities I am banned from for having an anti-ai stance AKA a working brain. I didn’t block all of them soon enough.
What I am saying is that you should still be able to block communities you are banned from. Seeing them in my feed and being unable to get rid of them is like seeing cockroaches in a kitchen.
If you get banned from your own instance, all your posts and communities you created are deleted. Lots of posts get deleted because of this.
How would someone get banned from their own instance? Do you really own it if you can get banned from it?
Other meaning: “If you get banned from [the instance where you created your user account]” might clear it up. It’s not their own instance in the sense that they are in control of the system but it is the one they might consider “home”.
Compare this against a case where a lemmy.world user gets an instance-wide ban from the admins on lemmy.ml, for example: user can’t participate in .ml communities but it doesn’t nuke their account.
Yeah that’s crazy
Sounds like it would be a good bug report.
You should be able to add them on the Blocks tab of this page. There’s a text box you can fill in with the community name. It’s more annoying than pressing a button but maybe less than continuing to see the content.
You are a genius.
Honestly, they should just automatically be blocked if you are banned from them.
