I do quite firmly believe I have witnessed the death rattles of Reddit with this dystopian data farming nonsense.
Absolutely nothing is worth this belittling monitoring shite.

Unfortunately it seems we're moving towards a future where every online service will eventually require realtime realID authentication.

People dont care. It's just part if the internet these days.

Reddit is just doing what everyone else soon will

To me the death rattles of reddit are the fact that all the comments are low effort dog shit. After collapsing the top few actually good comments, there is next to nothing underneath them. Lemmy has just as many comments as reddit does these days.

Send them a picture of your dick and say that if you are a child then they are now in possession of child porn

Lemmy has just as many comments as reddit does these days.

What's the point of a forum like this without any people contributing to it?

Yeah I feel like we shouldn't be cool with this all the same. Just because it's becoming more normalised does not mean we should accept it, regardless of what the majority thinks.

Not having to wade through spam and hate.

More diversity would help with the amount of hate already bubbling up here.

How so?

More women and more people of color would help balance some of the male-dominated takes that are often supported and uplifted here. There's a lot of sexism and racism that is tolerated or at least appears tolerated because there's no visible pushback.

More diversity leads to humanizing others and reducing hate being directed at certain groups.

It is marginally harder to be a butt when you know you are going to get called on it

That said, it is pretty much an echo chamber in here

Depends, smaller focused groups can kick out bigots better than massive spaces from my experience.

Yeah, that's why I joined a queer instance

It would be cool to have some queer representation spread out as well. I don't like the idea of allowing the jerks to be the predominant voice in such a space like this when there's a lot of other people I'd love to hear from instead.

You don't like the skin colour distribution on Lemmy?

Eh, I think this place is populated primarily by cis white men and that can have an effect on what type of comments and posts are tolerated.

A lot of the smaller groups kick out people who just disagree with them

And not just for being racists or bigots

For example, I don’t personally believe that the kind of people who can afford to commute by bike need a safe space to be protected from someone pointing out that their expressed glee at auto accidents is callously political.

If you do your comments will be deleted.

They have some things to teach Musk about being snowflakes.

(Really, in modern US cities, only rich white dudes commute by bike. No single mom is biking her kids to daycare on her way to her shift at the chemical plant. Those roads don’t get bike lanes anyway.)

Edit: and the mod deleted my post for bigotry lol

I don't have the spoons to teach others not to be assholes anymore. I use social spaces in small doses and bursts.

Very understandable! I hope your corners of the internet continue to be supportive and fun :)

Yeah, I noticed just a few hours ago that even with reddit enhancement suite (RES) on https://www.reddit.com/domain/v.redd.it/ I was getting the shitty reddit player where you can't resize it, and that finally made me snap and remove RES + a handful of userscripts associated with reddit.
So it's possible they just pushed some update earlier today.

I think my account there is actually like 18.

Same to you! I really like being able to find and build a community on here. My favorite reddit was wholesome memes before leaving reddit.

Oh I just realized I had commented on your post in womensstuff! I was going to recommend that community, but you already found it :)

Eh, I think this place is populated primarily by cis white men

Maybe that's because of your own prejudices.

There's a lot of sexism and racism that is tolerated or at least appears tolerated because there's no visible pushback.

Could you define sexism/racism? It's gotten to the point where those words are like "woke" and can mean anything to anyone.

Like if you're talking about someone saying that someone is genetically inferior/superior because of their race or sex, then tell me so I can go tear them a new one.

But if it's anything other than that, then I genuinely don't care about your version of "sexism" or "racism", and I think the general public is starting to learn that you use those words to mean everything from the KKK to being impolite.

No, I really think that’s the majority demographic here. Like statistically, not emotionally.

Can I see those stats?

They’re probably similar to Reddit, but I’ll go digging for stats. Do you really think the majority of users here are women?

• Female19.82%
• Male80.18%

Source

You think it’s gotten to the point that sexism and racism are “like ‘woke’”?

the death rattle is that they are tyring to force logins, because thier favorite AI isnt scraping them anymore.

i had a wierd ban from blahaj the other week, dint realize they were this annoying as the startrek website dude. i think alot of the lgbtq+ went back to reddit, once the large instance shut down last year.

i think most of them are on reddit, and they usually are niche enough they dont get too much attention, i think its a good thing though, because too much attention will just draw into many homophobes.

i do notice that too, im poc asian just even explaining on how asia perception of western people(especially white people) seems different from how asia is percieved.

smaller niche communities, subs can do that. but when that smaller focused group becomes large they start kicking out people even for the slightest infraction.

i always found the bike community forums/subs always have wierd obsession in trying to turn everywhere they think they can ride into a bike only zone. people sitll need to commute by car or public transit, it just hurts those people. and there bike communities in irl that are douchey.

Digg never did that to us.

I just hope the Fediverse never becomes unusable without age verification.

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I gotta know if the demographics surprised you or not haha

Could be. I haven't seen any demographic data. There does seem to be a lot of LGBTQ+ people, but that could just be the forums I'm using.

Wow, I was way off on the age distribution.

The largest age group of visitors are 18 - 24 year olds.

Just pulling the info out into the comments :)

Well, I didn't mention anything about sexual orientation in my comment, but yeah there does seem to be more LGBTQ+ people than the average here. I still think it's mostly cis white men.

Fedi is decentralized and can't be taken over like that. Even if the biggest instances all went bad, you'd still be able to keep participating however you like on a smaller or solo instance and the worst they could do is defederate you.

Nothing about orientation, but you did say cis white men, and the T in LGBTQ+ is "trans". I think you're probably right, but I don't have anything empirical to back it up.

This will eliminate bots right?

Right?

I would be shocked if there were more trans people on the Fediverse than cis people. Like....let's be real here.

I had the displeasure of browsing it without an ad blocker. Half the side is taken up by an ugly reddit sign up ad. Scrolling down you can only see 1 post at a time and its like post - ad - post - ad. Horrible so horrible and their player is dogshit and the comments and posts were very low quality and spammy.