4-days account describes Lemmy as toxic on /r/RedditAlternatives

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

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 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.

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.
It's so hard to find a user so aware and rational like you…

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.

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 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

Interesting how this whole post proves this person's claims. Lemmy is indeed toxic, after all.

I never know what to do with these lol

it actually has quite a few upvotes too

Oh no.... Anyway..