Edit: And you know what? I’m just going to fucking say it. There’s too many armchair activists here who won’t let you enjoy a single moment without reminding you that something bad is happening somewhere in the world and that you have some kind of moral obligation to be angry all the time about it. And if you’re not angry all the time then you’re somehow part of the problem.

Amen.

I am so sick of being lectured by some weirdo about ‘WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING’. It’s nothing more than them projecting their pathetic helpless miserable life onto others. ‘if you dont’ support my pet issue than you are a morally bankrupt person!’

a lot of people who came here are the insufferable types from reddit who think it’s their ‘duty’ to harass and shit on anyone who dares hold a different view of the world than they do, or who is more open minded than ‘anyone i don’t like is a nazi’.

i am not using piefed. maybe it’s better for admins, but I’m not an admin.

that isn’t true. anytime i have gone there it’s WAY more memey. it looks more like mastrodon/twitter than reddit.

I am not interesting in meme platforms.

piefed is full of memes. i hate it.

i also am annoyed at having it constantly shrilled at me. i am thinking about blocking it.

you’re on a different instance

yes, i can.

but it’s problematic if I have to do that every day. It’s almost a daily part of my use of lemmy.

I don’t want to have to block stuff as a part of my daily use.

this is actually the reason I don’t use tiktok or instagram. because my user experience was block block block, everytime I used it. And it never stopped shoveling the shit I didn’t want to see into my face. and a lot of it was pornographic clickbait crap.

i liked it back when it was smaller, but around 2020/2021 both platforms decided to shove tits in my face non stop. and i wasn’t on those platforms for tits. I was on there for my hobbies, but it kept pushing porn on me. so i stopped using it entirely. i still use youtube because youtube isn’t constantly shoveling porno shit in my face.

that’s kind of what lemmy feels like. except it’s with furryies, linux, etc. even when I block stuff more of it keeps popping up. i want to see more generalist content related to general interests, not content from people who are fetishists.

i have been on lemmy over two years. my first 1.5 years i hardly ever had to block anything, because shit content i dont’ like wasn’t flooding my feed. when i first got here it was just a lot of general news/science/information and link aggregation about nerdy stuff, which i really liked and why i liked reddit. i know there was furry porn on reddit from it’s inception, but I never had to see any of it unless i went looking for it specifically, like a lot of the fetish stuff on reddit.

they call any new deal type thinking ‘populism’ and lump it in with Trump.

the ‘new deal’ rural areas are getting is shitty Data centers fucking up their landscapes and giving them zero jobs.

most people don’t care about sides. they just care about money.

and rightfully so. your theory or political stance can’t buy you food or a car or other basic necessities.

No, they aren’t.

People genuinely believe this stuff. Just like they believe in astrology. It’s a form of magical thinking, it’s a magical political theory. The core premises being ‘liberation’… which just means being a delusional twat who thinks reality horrible and scary and the ideology helps then deny it.

In other words, it’s the equivalent of a child ignore their parents requests res to do chores in the hope the parent/chores will stop asking.

all of these anarchist flavors are a form of relativism where all that matters is people’s individual feelings.

it’s a form of solipsism when you start asking questions about it.

and when you draw it out, it inevitable leads to consequences that totally contradict it’s tenants. but anarchists… don’t do that… they just feel the feelings, man.

anarchism is great if you never think, but some flavors of it regard thinking as an undue burden foist upon people by a unjust society… hence why you are getting these absurd answer about how gravity is unjust and cruel. I suppose they also regard having to eat/drink/breathe as injustices that ‘society’ forces upon us.

lemmy is basically NSFW because of this, yes. the amount of furry anime porn that reaches the front page is crazy.

i don’t get why it being pushed, but I suppose it’s just the userbase is very active and passionate about that stuff so it rises to the top.

every other day i have to block 2-3 furry communities, usually porno ones.

they aren’t no the front page, but once you go a few clicks deeper, boom goes the furry memes/porn.

i’ve blocked like 50 communities and 90% of them are furry content.

most of this was in the past few months, i never saw it the first 1.5 years i was here.

being introduce to furry porn isn’t expanding my horizon, it’s just annoying and weird, and offputting. it’s a sexual fetish. looking at pictures of feet would be similar, but I don’t get bombarded by foot porn here, just furry porn.

Also the linux fetishism on this site is super weird. I’m an IT professional. I use Linux. I don’t idealize it however. It’s just another OS among many. And most of the Linux content is more about being ANGRY about microsoft and apple than anything else.

25 years ago people were going on the same about how linux will save the world… and fantazing that one day microsoft would crumble. it didn’t. it won’t. in fact the opposite happened.

Linux is fine, but it’s a niche OS for nerds and admins. It’s not for regular home/office users and you aren’t a technology Jesus for using it or discovering it. It’s been around since the 1991.

the fediverse is very low quality unless you’re a furry linux-using anarchist/communist

for those of us who live in a broader reality with more ‘normie’ beliefs and lifestyles, it’s weak. it needs less weirdos who go around projecting their persecution complex everywhere

everyone i know who is the most ignorant fool loves to go on about politics none stop and listening/acknowledging their crazy is part of socializing with them.

Thinking requires work.

People don’t want to do the work. Much easier to have someone on TV/radio/internet do it for you.

They want to be entertained. Rogan is entertaining.

join forces to do what?

bluesky is a twitter clone, it’s not a comment board or link aggregator.

according to the new users I’m an ignorant fascist hateful bigot nazi, etc. because I’m not going around being angry and making every issue into a binary choice of good vs evil.

woohoo! but yeah there are still plenty of good faith smart people who articulate subtle, empathic, and thoughtful commentary.

what sucks is watching those comments get removed by idiot mods because they don’t fit the narrative of good vs evil. asklemmy was really dope until about two months ago. I got banned in a thread about trans issues, for having an opinion that individual athletic orgs should get to determine what they qualify as woman or man in competition… and my comment was removed and i was banned for ‘hate speech’. saw several other really nuanced and subtle takes be removed as well.

most of these comments were heavily upvoted in the first few hours of the thread. About a day after the original thread/comments, a bunch of angry dipshits came into the really throughout discussions and just start plastering one liners to all of us about how hateful and fascist we were and probably dog-pile reported on them. My comment was a reply to a top comment, and got about a dozen angry insulting replies, and then it was removed and i was banned, 2-3 days after the comment was posted.

apparently the mod opinion was the federal government should abolish all gender in sports and anything that wasn’t an overarching overreaching overbearing type of ‘solution’ was hateful and evil.

but in the eyes of bullies, everyone else is bullying them by existing and being different than them.

Agreed.

The politics here is also so hostile and violent, and one-sided. It’s gross. Even moderate/chill points of view are mercilessly attacked and told the are awful bad people for not being extremists. Anyone who isn’t on ‘their side’ is the ‘enemy’.

Block those communities, if you want.

But Americans are very hostile and angry people, and yes it’s true that anger boils all over lemmy now in a way it didn’t even a few months ago.

There are just a lot of people who go around wanting to pound everything with all the anger they are harboring.