At least on the communities i follow. Every so often I come across a thread where i recognize most of the users there even in the big communities with over 30k members and I haven’t even been on lemmy that long.

  • OpenStarsEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    I tried multiple times. They give me dirty looks and grief about all the political extremist content here. We who know how to block it tend to forget, but for a newcomer it’s definitely off-putting. And yes X is that way these days too, but people already know it and don’t visit it for the first time, so it gets grandfathered in.

    We have some work to do before we will go mainstream.

    • Blaze@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Several instances block hexbear and lemmygrad, that can be a starting point

      • OpenStarsEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yes but the only one I’ve ever seen that blocks all of the big 3 is lemmy.cafe. And even that does not block posts that advocate for violence - e.g. an example from literally yesterday, and this one from a memes community on Lemmy.world, from a user on sopuli.xyz.

        Note that I am not advocating for removal of such content, only relating how in my personal experience, suggesting the Fediverse to normies has never once turned out any other way than badly. Granted, hexbear.net for its severity and lemmy.ml for its large userbase are probably 99.9% of the issue, but especially until after the election I have no plans to tell people about Lemmy anymore. After that, if lemmy.cafe still has Lemmy.ml removed, I will probably tell people about that one as an entry point.

        Which isn’t all on its own going to push the Fediverse into the mainstream, until we do more cleanup to make normal people feel welcomed rather than scared to be here.

      • fern@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        If they follow through and block .world and .ee, then they can really get a handle of the extremism.

          • Aphelion@lemm.ee
            4·
            2 days ago

            Seriously? I moved to lemm.ee because it has a fair, democratic approach to federation, and doesn’t defederate at the drop of a hat.

            I’d personally rather be able to see more perspectives and block the crazy at my own discretion.

            • OpenStarsEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              That works too. Like some people prefer Arch btw, and that’s wonderful. But… mainstream normies aren’t likely to want that. Anyway, lemm.ee is already awesome and exists:-).