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Do we really want Lemmy's userbase to grow and assimilate "normies"? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I know the word normies may have weird connotations, but I just mean that, regular everyday people.

I've been enjoying Lemmy a lot and even recommended it to a few close friends who are working in tech. But I would like Lemmy to be way bigger, maybe have those makefriends communities like reddit has, be it gaming friends, just for chatting, for voicecalls, etc etc...

But I also wonder, could growing Lemmy indiscriminately be a bad thing? As you relax filters and barriers to entry, yes, more people can come in, but I have a feeling the quality of the people might go down aswell.

Is a clique-like platform what Lemmy is supposed to be like? Or is it supposed to try and absorb as much users as possible and be just a user-managed user-owned reddit alternative with no ads and less censorship?

I believe the answer may lie somewhere in the middle, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it, as I'm a total newbie on here.

(Also I understand private dms on Lemmy are not secure, but you can keep the idea of the "r4r" community and just drop a matrix or session link in dms, not perfect as the admins can be what username you sent out, but at least it ends there)

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[–] [S] 1 point 10 hours ago (3 children)

That sounds awful, I really hope it's not a "forever thing", Idk where I stand when it comes to politics, but I feel it would be stupid to dismiss an ENTIRE ideology and say "nothing inside of this box labeled capitalism/communism will ever be useful".

I'd like for people to be civil and discuss the virtues of X or Y policies inside an ideology, kinda hate that if you are a leftie you can't be anti abortion.

Like who decided that? I don't like the idea of happy-meal-ideologies where if you subscribe to a particular ideology you are opted in to all that's inside it and its frowned upon for you to deviate from it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    happy-meal-ideologies

    I very much like that. Been told a dozen times, here and elsewhere that I can't be a leftist because I believe $X. Yeah, that's gonna bring people into the tent.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago* (1 child)

    people do. human nature is to be tribal and the tribe is formed based on inherited belief structures. it's feelings.

    university used to be about learning to think and challenging beliefs, but that's being flushed down the toilet because administrations now want to protect student's feelings above all else. so now a lot of university grads have gone through 4-6 years of academic training without ever thinking critically about themselves or their beliefs, and most of them seem to now come out with much more rigid belief structure than they went in with (radicalized).

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