I’ve been one of the people saying “we don’t need more users. we need quality over quantity” and i was wrong.
the way it’s going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.
So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.
edit: source for the graph
I came to this space in November of 2024.
As a trans person I wanted community. So I checked out blahaj first. But, the queer community here is controlled by Ada who bans anyone she doesn’t like and i ticked her off once by not bowing to her judgement when it came to allowing trolls to stay in the space. This drama also splintered the 196 community, and neither 196 space has had the same number of participants since.
So no more queer community for me. I’ve had to get that other places like Tumblr.
I then decide to use the .db0 community to report what I feel is abusive behavior from .blahaj staff and after enough time they realized that they really don’t like people using the “report abuse community” to report abuse of specific spaces like blahaj. Banned for using the space for what it was created for.
So no more .db0
I’m just so tired of using this space, it feels just like reddit except there’s somehow even less accountability.
Every week i feel less and less compelled to contribute
I used to enjoy posting like a dozen memes a day and now I don’t post anymore. It’s not fun it’s a chore to keep feeding memes and engagement into this space that pretty much only has told me it hates me for the last year.
Bad app :c
Hexbear is super trans inclusive (50ish% of users are trans per the last survey) and bans transphobia instantly, you may fit right in :)
I’m pretty sure I remember SS, and I’m not sure they’re going to fit in
Unfortunate shortening for the username lmao took me a while to understand. Maybe let them decide about it?
I will. But unless anything has changed in the last 9 or so months, I expect the answer to be no.
I see, wasn’t aware of that. Thanks!
Yeah, i unfortunately don’t agree with the tankie censorship of people who disapprove of dictatorships.
Cowbee you especially are a gross person when it comes to licking authoritarian boot.
I don’t “lick authoritarian boot” for supporting existing socialism, and the person you’re replying to isn’t me.
Is the “socialism” in the room with us right now?
I think you might have a different understanding of socialism than modern socialists. Yours seems more like a 1950s flavor of “socialism”
I’m not Cowbee, I just appreciate Cowbee, as my username says. Cowbee is the opposite of supporting dictatorships, he’s a socialist supporting the struggle against western imperialism.
Cowbee is the same kind of “socialist” as wernher von braun
Also you aren’t fooling anyone with your ban evasion account. At least change up your cadence or something.
Hexbear is tankie space
Yes, that’s why it’s inclusive of trans and bans transphobia, that’s a good thing! An internet space without overt Zionism, transphobia… It feels great
The way in which you can’t even aknowledge the problems with your fascist ideology is reqlly crrepy and dystopian. You come off like there is a CCP state agent pointing a gun at your head as you write every comment.
Sorry you can’t ban me in this space cowbee :c
I’m not Cowbee
Considering you think you’re replying to me, I’m not a fascist, I’m a communist, same as Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. There are no CPC agents pointing guns at me, I’m a communist that organizes in real life.
I also can’t ban you anywhere, the only space I moderate is Hexbear’s c/theory comm, which on a .world account you can’t even see.
Marx, Engles, and Lenin did not support dictatorships
Neither do I. They all support the working class controlling the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is what I support.
Yeah, but the russia and china authoritarian love and glazing sucks.
People over on Hexbear don’t love Russia. I myself have posted news articles on Russian authorities enjailing marxists and they got widely popular in Hexbear.
As for China, I’d argue they’re not more authoritarian than most developed countries. I’m a Spaniard, my state has political prisoners for pro-Catalonian independence actions such as promoting a referendum for independence. The most leftist party to appear in decades fell into oblivion recently because the state police apparatus manufactured false evidence of corrupt funding of said party (Podemos) by Venezuela and Iran, and leaked these false police reports to all media, which echoed it nonstop for months.
Can you make posts/comments criticizing china, russia and the various horrific shit perpetrated by dictators of said country?
My one issue with tankies is that. Otherwise I openly welcome leftist ideas.
If they’re nuanced, yes. “China bad” is not accepted, but there’s plenty of criticism of China in Hexbear. A Chinese member called Xiaohongshu routinely posts comments and critiques of Chinese policy, such as failing to leave neoliberalism behind and maintaining dollar hegemony for its own benefit. There’s also been big criticism recently for the lack of material support to Venezuela against US imperialist invasion. What’s not accepted is “vuvuzela no iPhone”, “tinyman square” or “ruzzians are bloodthirsty orcs”, and it’s honestly refreshing.
I’ve discussed this at length, but I’ll try and explain myself here too: the problem is not that Marxists don’t want representation of the mistakes and bad policies that did happen in Actually Existing Socialist countries. The problem is that they’re overmagnified and given extremely long coverage and attention whereas western atrocities, by all means much more violent and deadly, are just brushed off and not discussed. The problem is not that people discuss gulags and gulag victims, we should totally do that. The problem is that for every gulag museum there should be 10 colonialism museums because colonialism murdered hundreds of millions. Until there isn’t this proportional representation, you must understand why Marxists are fed up with discussion exclusively of socialist bad policies.
ooh, SoftestSapphic, i remember seeing your memes :) i liked them
<3
So, basically instead of having one huge gatekeeper, we now have many smaller ones.
This. It was never about not having gatekeepers, it was always about being the gatekeeper instead.
It was never about not having gatekeepers, it’s about being able to choose who the gatekeeper(s) is/are.
The gatekeepers of these spaces are not meaningfully different from reddit.
Mods like Ada will destroy Lemmy in general.
Edit: I’ll elaborate. Ada will not only ban you if you hurt their feelings, they’ll also ban you across several other communities even if you’ve never posted in them. That’s absurd. Must have onion-thin skin. Who acts like that?