Yeah, precisely.

This is exactly what I’m talking about.

I get that.

That’s part of my motivation too.

My mental state is not great, and I too came here to avoid a manipulative bombardment of ragebait. Hence its frustrating to fund other users reposting it, especially when its misleading or straight up misinformation.

I thought most of us came here to escape that trap, but apparently not.

The structure is important, too. That ultimately colors the community, no matter how “free” it is.

I think Lemmy mirrored Reddit a little too closely. For instance, feeds are structured in a way so that popular and “ragebait” communities rise over niche interest ones, and starve the latter.

Piefed is better, and getting better, though. In some ways.

It’s not on over the line on dbzer0 though. The admin has made that crystal clear.

And when other admins try to put the foot down (like on Lemmy.world), the communty piles on them.

I don’t know why you’re being so thorny.

And why would I ever got back to Twitter or Reddit? They’re cesspools. What would make you think I’d ever touch them?

…This is exactly what I’m talking about. Its like if I don’t pass a political purity test, if I am not X level of explicit or hostile in every single post, I’m the enemy. Because apparently I’m not good enough for lemmy.

I can.

But as some point I worry about the health of the community.

I don’t want to invest my time in platform that shrinks into a one-topic pit. Been down that rabbit hole before.

…To be clear, I think Lemmy is okay now, but I worry about the trajectory.

I was not defending the tesseract dev, what they did is inexcusable. That app can burn.

I sympathized with them some, though. I get what they were trying to do in their head, on some level.

If you think the more extreme parts of Lemmy are representative of “everyone around you,” as in the larger public in my life, I don’t even know where to begin with that. We live in different worlds I guess.

I think Lemmy is radicalizing.

It’s not just Lemmy.ml either. I used to love dbz0, almost switched from lemmy.world, but now all the non-political content is withering away, and most of what I see is just absolutist, anarchist post. The admin is fine with explicit calls to violence against pretty much anyone.

And that’s fine. It’s their instance, they can their thing. But it’s so extreme I don’t even find satisfaction interacting with the instance anymore, like it’s a single community with one topic.

And I don’t mean to single them out. I have similar feelings from many instances, including Lemmy.world.

I’ve even seen some pretty extreme stuff on blajah, which I used to picture as a wholesome LGBTQ+ instance! Which I adore… until it’s not so wholesome.

What’s worse, Lemmy users don’t seem to care.

I’ll point out some off-topic discussion in a thread, and I just get piled on. Like, not every single Lemmy conversation has to involve statements about western imperialism or the futility of democracy or whatever, but apparently it does on Lemmy.ml, and it feels like it’s spreading.

That was more of a rant than I intended.

But I am concerned about this new internet place I like. I’ve seen one or two other Reddit clones wither away from political radicalization, too.

Also, all this reminds me of drama in the Skyrim and Minecraft modding scenes, when devs publish stuff under Apache or MIT or whatever.

Then the devs find out they don’t like what others are doing with their code. Drama ensues.

…That’s kinda the deal with permissive licenses. Or posting publicly, like here on Lemmy. People will do things you don’t like with your code or content.