Skavau

Well I don't know of any social media platform that's somehow free of that.

Truth be told, I don't want this place, or the Threadiverse, to be considered a lefty safe-space any more than I'd want it to be considered a right wing safe-space. Honestly, I just wish people would leave their political ideology at the door and just interact as people.

Sure, I'm just noting its wider reputation.

It's not considered extreme really (*excluding some instances). I know you're referring to calls for violence to certain political figures but it's as nothing as to what you'll see on Twitter or 4chan.

As it stands, I'm embarrassed to tell people what I do in my spare time (run an instance and interact on Lemmy). You get a "normie" coming in off the streets, and what are they going to think jumping into this place? Are they going to want to stick around?

I don't think telling anyone you moderate a community on Lemmy and interact on Lemmy is somehow more embarassing than telling them you moderate a community on Reddit (for comparisons sake). People who would mock you in some way for that would do so whether or not its Reddit or Lemmy, and likely would just view all of it as inherently nerdy anyway.

Lemmy, from my observation has more of a reputation to outsiders as being a lefty-safe-space (closer to Bluesky) than anything else. It's really not that close to 4chan at all given the sheer gore and overt racism and hatred on there. I know what you're getting at here, but the dredges of 4chan and Twitter have outright open nazi apologetics in front of everyone. Also, given how unpleasant Reddit can get at times (at least just as bad as here) - I don't think the type of conduct you're referring to is inherently a problem for budding social media sites. Not excusing it, but just that it doesn't seem to be an existential factor.

What "normies" want, if anything, would be non-political communities taking more of a focus. Which I am certainly trying to do.

In terms of Lemmy Dev admins being the mortal enemies, piefed is up and kicking (I'm sure you know this)

EDIT: I see you do based on another reply by you.

!television@piefed.social should make it to 1000 subscribers by tuesday, or wednesday. Also, it's now the most active piefed community and brushing up on the frontpage of active communities per day/week as seen on lemmy.world.

Yeah, it's not where it should be. But I'm quite confident that such is the end-goal.

Instances will always come and go in many cases.

Maybe the instance model isn't the right one for long term federated communities.

The primary problem here is community mobility. If any community could be, with a few key presses, decoupled from an instance and essentially plopped onto another maintaining all of the posts, comments and subscribers - it wouldn't matter as much at all. Piefed has community migration, and I assume that is ultimately the end-goal. It just needs all the major instances to read and recognise such moves.

I think your grievance is beyond Lemmy and more just a grievance with people in our current culture currently, at at the minimum those inclined towards social media sites. Lemmy isn't magic software that makes people behave in a particular way.

He had changed his position after I wrote that comment I believe.

People need to be the change they want to see. I came here because I wanted to run some communities, but ultimately it was impossible on Reddit. All the names are taken, all the aging mod teams set in stone. You essentially have no meaningful opportunity to build anything new on there. In contrast, and especially with federation, the Fediverse is a completely different system. A fresh start - still after 2 years. And it has way better internal advertisement of communities than Reddit does.

And to be clear, on Reddit you can easily just shout into the wilderness at no-one. Big audience means you can get drowned out.

Apparently, reading the details on there - he might not shut it down.

No idea, but it's not an active instance so idk what happened.