I like it a lot. I come here often, it’s a good addition to my reddit use, it has some nice people and some interesting content.
I love that it is decentralized, which means that there will always be a server without ads, tracking or bad governance.
Also it feels like being part of Lemmy is being part of something new and novel. The idea of decentralizing services online, away from corporate silos, should be resurrected.
too much tech ppl
I think the issue is not the presence of tech ppl, but a combination of the world view they bring and their unwillingness to recognize their bias.
Examples of ways this can get annoying:
- insisting to people who say ‘it’s too difficult’ or ‘I’m not interested in doing that’ that it is, in fact, very easy to do.
- outsized importance to tech/security issues, often ignoring/downplaying other issues
- primarily cis white hetero male viewpoint, problems with privilege
- so many links about tech shit, like please share what you like but goddamn where are my news articles on something not tech related
in b4 ‘not all techies’, if this doesn’t apply to you fuck yea keep being awesome
insisting to people who say ‘it’s too difficult’ or ‘I’m not interested in doing that’ that it is, in fact, very easy to do.
I agree with your assessment, but on the other hand sometimes people don’t know or forget about the hard work by volunteers to even make things work in the state they are. Aggressively claiming that this project isn’t user friendly and that’s why people can’t use it and it should have a nicer UI and whatnot sometimes is very unfair. There isn’t a behavioral scientist and a shitload of UI designers in every open-source software project ^^
Oh I can totally see how someone would feel that way. Sorry but unfortunately it’s like that on many smaller alternatives to the big social networks. I guess it’s because it’s mostly tech people that think about the problems and implications that the big social media brings. Tech people then can then find an alternative.
I guess this won’t change in the near future.
