I mean, your average Lemmy user has skin the thickness of a cobweb, and a developmentally-stunted sense of humour from growing up watching bland American sitcoms
Unless the comments are coming with a laugh-track this can only go horribly wrong
(Insert /s here due to poor reading comprehension on one side of the Atlantic)
I guess I got carried away. I was thinking if there was a dedicated community where trolling is allowed, they'd understand that's like the 'safe' zone, for people to be dicks to eachother without worrying about reports and bans.
But you're right.
Man. That really sucks about lemmy and social media in general. It's so fucking lame now omg
I was going to ask why an innocent-seeming community was restricted to 18+ and then I saw the description of the community explaining why, so props for anticipating questions.
I'm thinking that things are getting to the point of maturity that it'd make sense to have a general rule about this.
Something like:
You're expected to do a little research to see if your new community is very closely aligned with an existing one, and if so, provide at least some statement as to why you're making yours or what's different about it.
It's not to prevent people from making their own communities at all, it's just that it actually helps clarify the promotion of a new community while also helping the community ecosystem.
From what I can tell, !coolguides has a fairly rigid set of rules, with a specific distinction made between guides and infographics. That's great, I like when moderators take an active role in curating the content of their communities.
But I would guess that !coolguides is possibly a response to those rules. Basically if your post got removed from the lemmy.ca community because it was technically an infographic, you could post it to sopuli.xyz community instead.
That's my understanding of the ecosystem, without having spoken to any of the people involved.
Thank you very much. I always feel so ignorant when I don't know things and with such sensitive topics, I always sorry a search engine will misinform me.
I can’t speak for everyone obviously, but among LGBT people there are a lot of ‘microidentities’ that nobody really expects all LGBT people to know about, much less anyone who isn’t. As long as you aren’t all “UGH what is this WEIRD SHIT you have come up with NOW???” it’s perfectly fine to ask what it means.
Replace "Lemmyverse" with "the American left" and you're closer to the truth.
The American left is against racism ... yet harbours an alarming amount of antisemitism and an increasing amount of sinophobia.
The American left is against ageism ... directed at young people. Old people are open season.
The American left is against religious bigotry ... except Christians.
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It's just tribalism cosplaying as idealism. (And it's why, for example, Chinese LGBT groups have been quietly removing themselves from interaction with American LGBTQA+ groups over the past few years.)
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lovecraft_mythos
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