I think any pushback on welcoming people who aren’t male, white, and tech-focused should be squashed. Like that’s absurd to only want this place to reflect what white male techs want when there’s more than enough capacity to have separate communities with different focuses. Thanks for clarifying you don’t agree with that viewpoint of being unwelcoming to “normal folks”.

A viewpoint being popular doesn’t make it right.

I felt the need to clarify since you chose my comment about needing more diversity of people with a quip about not wanting mainstream, normal folks.

It was the rampant sexism that initially turned me away from the fediverse. I think I tried two or three times before I found my groove and the communities that speak to me.

It’s not that confusing to use the Threadiverse and I think it’s a little snobbish of you to think crafts people shouldn’t be welcome if they get confused by some of the tech stuff here. I have never used Linux and can function fine on this site. You’re underestimating people.

my opinions are totally mainstream and moderate

Even mainstream and moderate opinions are not immune from criticism.

mainstream normal folks

Everyone who isn’t white and male, you mean?

I’m not sure the majority of us want to make this a more pleasant place for people who express the ideas you do. You’re free to express them, but you’re not free from criticism.

PS: But judging by the upvote tallies, we’re outnumbered about 3 or 4 to one. I have no idea how democracy will continue to exist if this is representative of the offline world.

You’re judging the resilience of democracy based on upvotes and downvotes?

Most of Lemmy is also white and male in addition to being left-leaning and tech focused. We really could use more diversity across the board here.

I think there’s value in responding to some posts. I hope myself and another user were able to steer some men away from the obvious young woman trying to bait them into a romance scam.

There’s definitely bots here though it feels wayyyyy way less than Reddit. Especially noticeable with accounts that try to lure in older men with their kink for age-play and such.

I caught those posts about the switch this morning that you noticed and ignored them for this exact reason.

Thanks for posting the question anyway! It generated some good convo

There are ways for admins to step in on that kind of rule breaking, I believe. And I hope that’s true in the case that any CSAM might appear on Lemmy.

Lol yeah, it really is a rehashing of freedom vs security, isn’t it?

Genuine question: if someone doxes your address on Lemmy, wouldn’t you want to be able to get it deleted?

The someone still has my address, right? Getting it off Lemmy doesn’t really do much.

I think that people using the Fediverse generally want there to be more transparency and more control by the users and less in the hands of a few admins. We’ve all seen how Reddit took control over users info and comments over the years. There’s a push here to not let that happen.

It’s the principle of it. Start making exceptions for certain comments to be deleted then where is the line drawn? Easier to have it so nothing is ever truly deleted.

There are some instances that allow you to hide your deleted comments and posts, but it’s really just hiding it from yourself. Because of the way different instances are federated, your comments may still appear in other places even after you’ve deleted it. Smarter people than myself can explain it better.

Then go back to Reddit, I guess? I swear I’m not saying that in a snarky way. But nothing is ever truly deleted even if you can’t see it on your profile anymore.

More transparency, I believe.

Thank you!!

the amount of dudes showing up with trollish comments became a bit too much for us admins to handle.

The mods in womensstuff work really, really hard.

That’s her :)