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because the interface is archiac, and the majority of topics are extremist.
normal people see the front page of lemmy and they see a bunch of weirdos going on about linux, communism, and trans stuff.
any of the big threads with 100s of comments are full of crazies going off about violence and hate towards mainstream political positions and lifestyles.
i am 'mainstream' and i have to block multiple users per day because i get constantly harassed by nutcases telling me how evil i am for using windows/mac, being a socialist democrat, and driving a car to work. if you disagree with the militant doomer wannabe revolutionaries you're not going to have a good time here.
Honestly this. Everyone is always "on". Everything HAS to be about politics, and if one syllable you utter isn't cursing Donald Trump and his descendants unto the thousandth generation you're labelled a fascist. I mean for heaven's sake I don't like him, I didn't vote for him, and I'm counting the days until his term is over, but no that's apparently not enough.
Like, please, guys, I'm begging, just let me look at funny pictures of cats and talk about old video games.
if there is anything i've learned, online or not. miserable people hate anyone who isn't as miserable as they are and will harass and insult you for not being miserable just like them.
for example, i like my job. this makes a lot of people immediately hostile to me when they find out because they hate their job.
But I AM a miserable person, and I want to be LESS miserable by coming on here and having fun, but every blessed thread on here has the word "capitalist" somewhere in it. Guys I don't even necessarily disagree with y'all I just don't want to talk about the evils of corporate America in this thread that's nominally about Super Mario.
That’s really reductive.
life is reductive. it's not my job to have 'empathy' for militant losers who sit around flipping between whining about their lives and then engaging in violent political fantasizing about how they will kill the non believers to the communist cause to usher in the utopia.
You are only comprehensible to yourself.
this is the correct answer
roughly 2 million people gave lemmy a try and 1.95 million walked away
I can agree with you, the initial experience can be daunting for new users especially since majority of communities are of political nature. This experience honestly is why i think most people now reside in such communities - as that's the experience with me.
In addition, I can agree with extremist stances being prominent on here. Eco-fascism is one of those that I found common even when I was only part of the "basic" communities.
My god did you fucking nail it. Been thinking about bailing out over all the things you brought up.
I'd add two things though, news users are also swamped with furry shit and little girl porn, or "anime" as some call it. I spent my first two weeks here smashing block on all that shit, yet it still pops up constantly. If 8-yo girls in sexy maid outfits and fucking dogs is your thing, lemmy might be a good fit!
Oh, yeah, I had to learn how to block communities pretty quickly when I arrived. It's been so long that I had almost forgotten about that process.
My experience with Tumblr was largely the same. My list of filtered tags there is rather long.
i don't see any of that. just normal porn that is blurred.
Why do Reddit and Twitter users not have a similar problem with all the fascist shit going on over there? If extremism would be the problem on Lemmy, why isn't it a problem on Reddit or Twitter?
because most lemmy users are extreme leftists who think everyone is a fascist. i am a facist and a nazi according to lemmy. and think think nothing of harassing and banning anyone who doesn't agree with them. at least here i can on be banned on the .ml or extremist instances, not lemmy wide.
I know you are, but I mean generally
Twitter does have that problem. It’s had that problem for years. That’s why I’m not on Twitter. That doesn’t cancel out the craziness on here though.