I’ve been one of the people saying “we don’t need more users. we need quality over quantity” and i was wrong.
the way it’s going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.
So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.
edit: source for the graph
The culture wars have reached the fediverse, and it’s making me less happy to be here. I don’t want to hang out in places where people use slurs and insults, even if they’re not aimed at me. I’m seeing more casual misogyny/misandry, more casual use of the r**** slur, more perfectionist gatekeeping, more assumptions, and just less good-faith comments in general.
I’d advertise, but I’m starting to look for an alternative to lemmy.
pretty much. i have been here for over two years. in the past few months it’s become more and more frustrating and i’m getting harassed/attacked/banned, always from bad faith actors that whose grade school reasoning is ‘i know you are but what am i?!’ type justifications. they only reply to call you names and tell you how wrong you are and how right they are.
it’s the same idiots who ruined reddit who can’t tolerate anyone who thinks differently than them and then screech about how tolerate and open minded they are and if anyone disagrees with them the are a stupid facist bigot.
people forget, but redditque was a think people actaully practiced and made reddit a really cool place. people would argue, but they generally didn’t ban/block/harass each other. nobody in first decade of reddit went around downvoting/reporting all my posts. but that’s just how shit is now on the internet too many unwell nutjobs who want to punish people who type words they don’t like.
I’m starting to see this. Over on Mastodon I’m starting to get devisive pro-Reform stuff in my feed. Often it’s someone boosting (though not sure why) a video from a pro-Farage account and making a silly comment about it. The local instance I’m in is nice and friendly - and I don’t want the arrival of people who just want to stir up things. We do politics there and seems left-leaning but it’s courteous. Occasionally a tone deaf elephant will thunder through and then move instances when they realise we don’t like the being nasty stuff.
I haven’t seen any slurs in my feed, maybe jump instances?
i smell bots, and tankie infiltration into the rest of limit, since the triad is defederate, thier members are trying to branch out into other communities.
Stop, stop it for a second. “Tankie”? It’s probably just people with different ideas than yours. I’d toy don’t like to read what they have to say, block them, but phrase stop calling collective demeaning names to artificial groups of people.
Tankies are the communists who scream and harass anyone who isn’t communist like them.
I’ve been called a tankie several times only because my account is in lemmy.ml and I sympathyze with some communist ideas. Granted, these are some fundamental or radical ideas.
guilt by association is a hell of a drug.
but i’m not gonna lie, most of the crazy hostile comments I get are from .ml users or other far-left instance users. which makes sense. I’m not far-left, so in their eyes I am a Nazi and I should be violently suppressed for not believing what they believe.
I’m okay with your point of view. I can say tge same about the lemmy.world instance. Maybe we belong to a third instance, but as long as lemmy.ml has me uncensored, I’m happy here.
i will say .world has had a massive infux of crazy douchebags the past few months. i have been on here two years, nad it was rare to get harassed/reported/banned, but things have changed recently whatever the last reddit exodus was.
to me it’s just general rage posting and rage baiting taking over, from what was a much more chill place a year ago. across multiple instances. but on the flip side, the engagement is way up. irrational rage and hate drives engagement. people love to scream and insult other users more than they like talking to them as if they were people.
Now that you point it out, I think that’s exactly it. I’m glad people like you are still around there.