Truly a pretty terrible place for any kind of social activity.
People here are super self righteous and unwavering in their beliefs, quick to insult others and be generally bitchy, pedantic and quick to dogpile. Worst of all while still usually slightly wrong about a thing, but unwilling to hear it.
It’s basically the worst parts of reddit users where we have boiled it down to the most affluent or socially insecure.
Even if it’s as simple as a question people jump to defend their position with insults rather than answer it cause they get worried the person might be confused and it’s best to just make sure it’s a closed community as quick as possible.
This isn’t an open community it’s a private gated one where everyone jumped the fence and is scared that the wrong person might have come in with them.
Condescending is not welcoming.
Upvoting cause they are your in group isn’t community.
Berating outcasts cause you at least don’t feel like them is still bullying.
Are you familiar with !newcommunities@lemmy.world ?
Also, you being on lemy.lol and its 103 monthly active users means you might miss on some communities as nobody from your instance subscribed to them to bring them to the All feed
Why do I need a computer science degree to navigate this place?
No, I am not familiar. Sigh I just wanted to laugh.
Wait until I show you https://lemmyverse.net/communities
You can use the home icon to set your home instance and open the new communities on it
