“NaCl” pronounced like “Tackle” or “Salt” or just “Knight”
Black AF. He/Him. CisHet
I build PCs, Arcade Sticks, and Xbox Controllers.
I’m a lot of things. FGC member. Fantasy & Martial Arts Fiction Writer. Martial Artist. Mechanical Engineer. Friendly MF. Socialist. Christian. Designated extrovert and friendly jackass. Stubborn MF. Gamer, especially fighting games.
Rap, post hardore, anime, cartoons, comics.
Let’s get it.
Blocking regional communities is one thing, sure.
I was partially joking, but anime, cartoons, sports, and some tasteful/ethical NSFW are all topics I’m hella interested in but don’t get much play here. There’s basically no boxing/MMA/basketball/football here.
Each day i feel too normie for this place
I’m not into the skinny models that most porn features and a lot of irl porn comes with a host of ethical issues,
Wait, you’re blocking porn, sports, and anime?
Those are the fun parts…
It varies wildly from person to person, and my wife and I work so well as partners cause we have vastly different lists of what we consider exhausting.
Specifically for me?
Talking to strangers? No issue. High intensity games? Let’s do it. Complicated or arduous manual labor? Hell yeah.
Increased rates of neurodivergence on a leftist founded Reddit alternative?
It’s less “venture to guess” and more “I’d bet my life savings on that being true.”
Shit. I’m here with ADHD.
Mastodon. The people are kinda weird, in different ways than I am weird, but if I post consistently enough I’ll build a community or something. I bounce between there and Twitter cause neither community is 100% satisfying
MBin, cause I want to be able to access Lemmy without being on Lemmy
That’s what i thought you meant. Thanks!
in my case, the diaspora didn’t change me so much as it displaced me.
Now I’m here and there. Much like Twitter and Masto where i do more content viewing on the legacy site where there’s more content, but more posting on the FOSS alternative because of ideological imperative to see it grow even if its content doesn’t serve me (yet?)
Actually, I’m kind of curious:
What do you mean “because of the nature of the reddit migration?”
Yeah i hear you. Reddit was white on average but Lemmy/Kbin feels like baby powder on top of fresh snow
None. I use none. Kraft Mac is already bad but if I’m in the mood for something nostalgic there are a dozen other things i would add first
I think this sort of unfulfilled promise has been the biggest obstacle of my full scale adoption of a reddit alternatives.
As a non-typical Lemmy user (No interest in privacy, piracy, Linux, FOSS, Web Dev, SW Dev, Veganism, or discussing political theory with strangers online) finding active communities in topics i am interested in (basketball, football, hip hop and rap, martial arts, boxing, mma, PC building, relationships, kink, and the specific humor and nuance that comes with being a Black person on the internet) has been a struggle.
Many of those communities have two people or less posting in them or don’t exist at all.
People are talking here but not about things i wanna discuss and that’s disappointing so i have a hard time “sticking” if that makes sense
I think it’s this in large part. Lemmy’s users are by and large migrants from Reddit for various reason.
But also, this place exists as an ideological alternative to Reddit more than a technical one. The API-pocalypse (API-calypse?) and enshitification and shameless money grabs to inflate stock prices were the final straws for a lot of people but it’s no secret that there are a series of positions and interests that are (assumed to be) shared by all the current Lemmy users.
As Lemmy grows its instances will continually have to determine who, what, and what beliefs and practices are welcome there
But also some people are just jackasses and need to argue, and they come into contact with people who want the same thing.
Fighting games, easily. Where you have 2 people you have a scene, no matter how old or obscure it is.
I think it’s a facet of the largest Lemmy servers feeling (being?) more ideologically homogenous, itself in part because of how niche Lemmy still is compared to Reddit.
Many of the users came here after the API died and so made joining here an explicitly ideological choice.
People aren’t here because their friends are here. Not really. Not yet.
They’re here cause they want to be, because this is important to them or their beliefs or their identity.
That’s totally valid and good and fine. But u should know and expect that when posting here, especially on the biggest or most general or politically volatile communities.
I’ve got negative interest in trying any Unix/Linux based OS on my home PC and I’m ambivalent about FOSS, but i recognize that being here will mean that putting up with a certain amount of “Windows bad” that i just have to laugh and shake off or stop coming here
Sure! Your reasons are valid and I’m not asking you to defend them.
I certainly don’t like everything in any of those categories either. I’ve got slices I’m into, but yeah, the broad categories are def part of my interests.