I’ve been off and on with the Fediverse for sometime now. It’s a relatively friendly place full of fellow nerds, but with a few caveats…

My feeds seem very focused on hard information be it Gaza, tech companies doing bad things, or people pitchforking about the lastest big bad in digital privacy. This is all well and good, but it does get a bit tired after a while. Seeing the samey stuff post after post by academic types makes me more informed but also mentally draining.

Where’s the fun? On Facebook and Instagram I see light fluffy popcorn type posts of people reminiscing over Nintendo games or reels of cockatiels being cockatiels. It’s fun to scroll and interact. Here it feels like I’m in a classroom, and people, while friendly, do get quite hostile if you don’t like Linux or Star Trek.

As a leftist I like it here because it’s my bubble of people, but I’d like to see the fedi let its hair down a bit. It’s okay to talk about stuff other than infosec, privacy guides, distros, and Gaza.

  • @GlitterInfectionEnglish
    4•6 months ago

    I am not interested in leftist discussions, or politics much at all, and I don’t want to see pictures of war crimes. And while I love FOSS, I also enjoy Apple products.

    Despite all that I feel like new communities are popping up that fit my interests somewhat frequently. My home feed is at least pretty well curated to games, film, tv, food, local places, AI art, and some pets/cats/hopeful posting communities.

    It seems to be enough content to get me through the day and then some so I’m happy on that.

    I do think lemmy could add features to make it easier to find content regardless of community, though. Because it doesn’t USUALLY matter which instance the community is on when it’s organized around a more hobbyist or chill subject. But content is currently duplicated across instances in different communities so I do see a lot of repeated links and the like. Plus it would be interesting to know when a conversation comes up on a subject I care about in communities I haven’t found yet. But that is a departure from the reddit structure that is more my wishful thinking.