Whenever I see complaints like these, purposefully vague about what kind of “exteme views” they have a problem with, I have to think of this meme
There it is! That’s the meme!
If Lemmy is extreme leftist, this person is likely to be conservative or they keep stumbling into Grad and think that’s the whole platform.
I tend to lean towards ineptitude in this case though.
I mean, we are way lefter than reddit, and given that the bell curve of intelligent responses is located at about the same place, we probably look a lot further left than we are to liberals and right of there. (i.e. stupid responses and extremist responses look pretty similar.)
My first day on my first account I saw more overt racism on Lemmy than I saw on Reddit in a year. Being able to block the tankie triad instances fixed most of this.
This you, defending colonizers and Just Asking Questions about fascism?
The modlog is probably another reason people think Lemmy is “toxic.” They can’t just lie about what they were banned for here.
Hell yeah. I’ll be pretty hostile towards magats
good. i don’t want to share this space with fascists.
Me neither. glares at the AI art theft communities What the fuck? How do you call yourselves anti-fascist when you promote ai art theft machines? Fucking hypocrites.
I think a lot of these people fail to realize that they aren’t Fediverse material isn’t because it’s “complicated” or “filled with linux nerds”. No, it’s because they are the people the Fediverse was created to escape, fascist right-wing extremists. It is more than natural they wouldn’t fit in here because that ideology isn’t compatible with the federated space and working together, if it was why didn’t those people build their own fediverse? I mean they tried, but not so they could connect their sites together and interoperate, only so they could try and take over our spaces, so they could try and force their messages onto us. When we blocked them and plugged our ears they gave up on Federation like that.
So it’s best to not worry too much about getting these people to join here, but rather debunking any arguments they may have against federation and its viability. The end goal isn’t to get EVERYONE* to join the Fediverse, it’s to get left leaning people and normies to while leaving all the extremists behind. At a point platforms like Reddit and Twitter become as insufferable as Gab or TruthSocial and the only real people there are the alt-right people.
What are you trying to convey??
I mean… he ain’t exactly wrong. Lemmy IS primarily far left users at the moment. Some of them extremely left.
Like I understand that this particular user didn’t really give it a fair shake, but lets not pretend those comments are wrong about that specific aspect of Lemmy. I have observed that you generally cannot have nuanced discussions on a myriad of topics on lemmy as there is a “right” and “wrong” stance in the eyes of the majority here.
Some of y’all are so far left that anyone even a millimeter to the right of you is seen as the second coming of Adolf himself.
Now obviously I understand that Lemmy isn’t homogeneous, but it definitely has a majority user base that leans so far left it’s pretty much laying on the ground at this point.
Thats just my 2¢ as left leaning moderate.
1mm of perception.
Lemmy: “Fucking die in a fire you fucking Nazi!”
Watch this!
“Trans folks are fallible human beings like the rest of us.”
Watch out. You might get banned from Blahaj.
It’s so hard to find a user so aware and rational like you…
I avoid news and political communities so I don’t really know that the crowd is about over there. People on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works and !gardening@lemmy.world are usually nice
Yeah if you avoid political subs and political topics in general Lemmy is great. But if you sort by Lemmy’s version of “r/all” it’s almost all political stuff and the comments are all primally unidirectional.
Trying to sanitize /all through the means of blocking half of Lemmy is way too much effort, and still won’t produce a good experience I think. I personally prune and maintain an extensive subscribed list instead and almost exclusively browse /subscribed. That still lets me access /all (or /local) whenever I feel like it without having half the content blocked, but can still avoid news and politics in my day to day browsing.
Yeah it’s unfortunate it takes this much work to filter out the majority of the extremism, but I’m thinking it might be worth it. It took about 6 months to block the worst users on nextdoor but it made my feed infinitely more useful and pleasant, I am guessing the same thing here, time will tell.
If I used it more than just during downtime at work I would probably bother but really I just kinda mindlessly scroll between tasks at work. The nature of my work means it’s a lot of hurry up and wait. So Lemmy fills the waiting portion. Once I’m home I have my full computer and all that I have no reason to be on Lemmy anymore lol
I browse All, but blocked all the news and politics on my main account. I check every few days on an alt.
That’s probably the most sane way to approach politics these days. Check in once in awhile. Seeing it all day every day would drive anyone insane. And clearly it has for many people.
We should start a news service that gives you a summa of the week or something. So people can stay somewhat informed but not have it ruin every waking moment of their days…
That could be a cool community
There’s probably a YouTuber that already does that, but lord knows they are probably biased in one direction or another. I miss purely factual reporting.
Lol toxic to what? MAGA?
If assholes don’t like Lemmy, GOOD.
The main issue with this kind of posts is that it might prevent non-assholes potential new joiners to give the platform a try
True, but I think it’s a small price to pay. I’d rather have a smaller Lemmy that maintains the current atmosphere than a bigger Lemmy with a larger percentage of jerks.
Honestly curious… what exactly are you doing in a community who’s stated goal is to evangelize the Lemmy network?
Let’s see how 75k monthly active users looks like. There’s probably still room to grow.
I was on lemmy for a bit and did try just using “subscribed”. It was like I said in another reply, it was either all content with the same mindset and no dialogue or it was a ghost town.
It is in fact possible for people to just dislike lemmy and want something else.
This isn’t a terribly unfair criticism tbh
This person might not be that great with computers, based on reading their replies.
I never know what to do with these lol
it actually has quite a few upvotes too
Oh no… Anyway…
Interesting how this whole post proves this person’s claims. Lemmy is indeed toxic, after all.
