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“If you can’t say something nice…”
Shouldn’t be regulated, but that’s my advice for improving discourse and awareness.
i dont like wholesome anything, to me it is often infantalizing or saccharine
Generously start using CWs (Content warnings) as folks used to do in the early days of Fediverse.
Let’s talk about politics a whole hell of a lot less. Yes, things are awful and insane, but there is good stuff to discuss.
Quit artificially upvoting US politics?
we seem to be popular with reddit users that were banned from reddit, which on average seems to translate to less than wholesome behavior - so maybe lemmy’s whole reddit-alternative branding works against us that way.
maybe developing a distinct UI so it’s not just a reddit clone, and directing features in a way that is appealing more to particular communities or people we wish to attract would be a good idea, rather than trying to directly replace reddit as a whole?
for example, attracting academics by supporting built-in LaTeX syntax rather than requiring a browser extension
It would be cool if people stopped thinking the only ideologies are their ideology and fascism
There are ideologies that are bad that arent far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist
Yeah, I agree 100% but this also goes for the left. The tankies on some Lemmy instances are so vocal that it makes me appriciate the normal left more
You and the person you’re replying to are saying the same thing / agreeing
we require men to read a single feminism book, just one /j
pls drop the /j 🥺
wish I could, unfortunately they’re allergic to critical thinking
maybe we could give them allergy shots? in the form of bell hooks?
The Will To Change by bell hooks. It was the first time ever I felt seen as a human by a feminist writer.
Can we all just post something instead of redirecting , every subreddit has this shit . I wanted to ask something about passkeys and i made a big post for that but all the technology sub just deleted it and I got the answer for it on reddit within 2 hr also there are no fun sub as well all the memes look shit and boring . No wonder nobody uses fediverse
There’s two subreddits I really miss: AskScience and AskHistorians. I was a regular and flaired contributor to AskScience, but its super helpful to generate a response when there’s a good question. It would feel weird opining on a random science topic that I come up with. And I loved the well sourced AskHistorians posts. When I do see a c/AskHistorian post on Lemmy the responses are very low effort
Yup, that sub has high standard. You basically have to write in Chicago style. (academic standard for writing in history) I wanted to contribute one time but didn’t want to spend hours writing.
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Try not to fall into the trap of groupthink. The “reddit hive mind” was one of the worst things about our predecessor, and it seems to have followed us here.
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Understand that humans are not, and never will be, perfect. Endless purity tests do not accomplish anything other than turning away newcomers.
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For the love of God, pick up a hobby. My feed on any given day is 99.8% US politics and activism. I’m not saying that these things aren’t important, but it gets exhausting when it’s the only thing people want to discuss.
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Implement a way for users to subscribe to an updating community/user blocklist. That way new users can get rid of all the crazies and block all the ml instances.
Hmm, maybe some more diversity? Right now it seems to be mostly hypernerds who use fediverse services. When was “Ask Lemmy” about web development questions… you know
Change the world to be less hostile toward ordinary people. Improve general conditions and decrease inequality. I know it’s a tall order, but it’s a pretty big step toward people being less angry, aggrieved, and sullen.
More attainable, and not applicable to everyone (but works on me), more pics of kittens and puppies and other cute critters. Sorry that I don’t have a more actionable philosophical suggestion.
