I see this, and am upvoting:-).
Over time yes, but then again those most likely to leave have already done so. At this point I don't expect anymore large exoduses from it, but even if there were I'm not so sure that they would come here.
Conservatives would not feel welcomed in the slightest (nor should they, hey-oh!:-), normies would not feel comfortable due to the heavy need to block every damn thing here just to survive it, and especially the people who think they are leftists (as I once naively thought, with zero evidence I should add!:-P who wants to bother actually looking up definitions of terms? especially if everyone around you is a conservative and thus it makes no functional difference) will find themselves most likely to become dogpiled onto by the people most ah... "eager" to look down upon their fellow human (and some as we so recently and unfortunately discussed go so far as to tell others to kill themselves - highly inappropriate language, especially coming from an instance admin).
So even if some were to leave, where would they go? Twitter is dead, having been eaten from the inside by X and cancelled, then necro-birthed into its current undead existence. And Facebook... just... no. Threads then? Maybe in a few years but either way it's not comfortable and familiar like Reddit is. So even if people left Reddit, I would expect them to go crawling right back into it, maybe just change their subs or some such. Especially when they roll out subscription model to avoid (some of) the ads, though it's too soon still as they get people used to them slowly but surely... just like a frog in a pot being cooked slowly (except that's a false story, bc irl the frog actually does have enough sense to jump out!).
Or maybe they'll simply touch grass, until they can't stand that anymore?:-) Playing games rather than talking with people can be a real distraction from the grittiness of life - and then there's Discord servers that so long as you only want a singular specific game, actually do offer a convenient method to discuss such a focused topic.
So "less profitable", I guess we'll see. Probably somewhat less, but substantially so? That I dunno.
Oh okay, that makes sense! ๐
Here's a ~~hard~~ (edit: damnit! "hint"!) that when I noticed it, improved my experience on the Fediverse enormously. Enough to convince me not to leave it outright as I nearly did. Pay attention to what instance someone is from. It's no 100% guarantee... but it's not useless either. This is like 1000% more relevant for someone on an instance other than Lemmy.world, but it still helps for you too.
The aggressiveness also varies by community, so likewise, some of those are just straight up worth blocking (so that you don't keep forgetting and end up replying in it yet again and again) and finding alternatives for.
MBin reportedly combines them. Seeing as how the content is identical, Lemmy could too if someone would code it up to make it happen. (Though Rust is a difficult language, unlike Python.)
Are you not able to block it? I've blocked the entire community so I don't see it much. You should be able to just like any other user... I would think?
Btw, both Mbin and PieFed have "categories" of multiple communities, so that you don't have to sign up to or explore each community entirely on its own.
Also, you may find it interesting: lemmynsfw, lemm.ee, and sh.itjust.works each have significantly more active monthly users than lemmy.ml. Though lemmy.world does have something like 80% of them on just that one. https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active_month
Until 0.19.6 comes out of beta and Lemmy.world upgrades to it, it's actually hard for any other instance besides it to remain up to date with content.
Defaulting on the American aspect of things as well.
As always ofc, but I feel like less so here. Though the Western aspects are still predominant for sure - UK & EU as well as USA.
It might be information overload but like... it seems hard to imagine people finding out that their wells were bad to drink from, and then simply deciding not to care. Though, that's probably naive and it's likely always been this way.
Oh wow, gross, but therefore thanks for sharing!:-)
Man, even if you boil the water... that sounds no bueno... People act like humans live "better" lives than those from 100 years ago, as if well water wasn't fresher and cleaner than what crap we get out of our tap. Tbf, vaccines exist now and that's HUGE (well... for those that choose to take them), but in other ways we've gone backwards or at least sidewise rather than forward.
It is a niche topic, here, where we all use Linux btw (or at least we keep our mouths shut if we don't, for fear of being mobbed:-D).
We talk about what we want to talk about here. Linux, memes, TV, uh... Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, beans, jeans, not pooping - and I think that's pretty much it, except for politics, am I missing anything? ๐