Is Lemmy community nice to new users?
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Thank you for doing the right thing.
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I find the contrast to be funny. Some of the interactions are friendly where people know each other and ask them how certain events in their personal lives went. Some are just nasty. There is no predicting what you'll get, other than some decent active users that I'm familiar with.
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No. Go to beehaw.
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I'm 99% sure its sarcasm.
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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Offensive usernamePlease create a new account and stop using this one. Aside from not wanting to deal with the extra reports this one will bring, we won’t let this become a Nazi bar, and we know that “ironic” bigotry is often the thin end of the wedge.
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I’m curious if people are sinophobic or anti Russian.
Some instances, notoriously lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, aggressively ban Sinophobia and Russophobia, so much that many visitors get banned without understanding how what they said was prejudiced (many of their prejudiced views are simply 'common sense' as a result of normal Western propaganda) and yell about the instances being Russian/Chinese genocidal propaganda. So if .world gives you trouble, these places could be worth considering.
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Honestly, it's been better than Reddit so far, probably because of who's self-selected into being here. In the long run, I expect it will be the same.
Like someone else said, there's prominent Marxist-Leninist instances, including this one to a degree, so this probably isn't the place if you want to talk about you're cool new landlord sidehustle (for one example). Most of Lemmy (like everywhere I've been, probably even NCD) leans left of the IRL center, but it sounds like that won't slip you up.
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Man, that must be tough for them. Lemmings run between solidly Democrat and contemplating critical support for Pol-Pot.
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The .ml mod history is full of people getting banned for whatever, and shoehorned into rule 1. I know, because every time my posts don't get votes for a while I go and check it, just in case.
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democrats are politically center-right for in the entire western world, so it's not at all a stretch to be conservative, religious, and democrat all at the same time.
the way i've politically sparred with them on lemmy proves to me that this is what most of the people of .world and .ee are like; status-quo americans.
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so it’s not at all a stretch to be conservative, religious, and democrat all at the same time.
Yes. That's a lot of older African-Americans, from what I've heard. Church every Sunday, but they'd chew off their own leg before they vote Trump.
My impression is that the average .world user is a progressive. Some stray towards centrism, some especially on .ml are communist. The Pol-Pot post I saw was on Hexbear.
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as i said earlier, .world is center-right; i don't get any sense of progressiveness from them.
they might be progressive compared to republicans, but not compared to your average western european or latin american or canadian; aka the western world.
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Yeah so you'll generally find lemmy users to be quite hostile to your political position. I'm grown up enough not to be "hostile" but to be frank I think your voting choices are very poorly considered.
To your broader question. Lemmy is just like any other platform. If you say silly things people will rebut you. There is no respect for contrary opinions.
I've found that lemmy communities tend to be very homogeneous and in many threads if you offer any insights which are not breathless support you'll be heavily downvoted and get vitriolic responses, or banned.
For example, saying anything critical of China in a .ml thread will result in a ban.
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I'm new, too, and agree it's been way nicer than reddit.
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Lemmy has a hardon for FOSS, and an irrational hatred for windows.
Aside from that, it's quite nice imo
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Yeah I learned that you can't say about a Foss developer wasting resources even when they do fundraiser and apply for grants
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Lol I can see it's controversial that I voted for stien, but I'm not ashamed, I'm proud that I did.
But I'm not afraid to be who I am and I don't want to have to conform for other strangers just to use a service. I'd rather we be ourselves and celebrate that we are here on this app
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If I'm gonna get into politics it's most likely to start organizational groups for approval voting/ranked Choice voting. I'll tell people that they have to deal with entire spectrum
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Yeah, don't be critical about China on Lemmy.ml
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the way i describe lemmy to people who aren't already familiar: it's like r/linux, r/socialism, r/communism, r/anarchy, and r/shitposting got together to make their own reddit and then the rest of reddit starting joining in during the api protests and now they outnumber the original communists, socialists, anarchists, etc. users by a lot; hence the comment you responded to.
