Ask Lemmy
A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions
Rules: (interactive)
1) Be nice and; have fun
Doxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them
2) All posts must end with a '?'
This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?
3) No spam
Please do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.
4) NSFW is okay, within reason
Just remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com.
NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].
5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions.
If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.
6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online
Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.
Partnered Communities:
Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu
view the rest of the comments
This is the best one, but it's not a replacement. I feel the need to add threads/bluesky to have more "normal" content.
people who use a platform based on it's supposed politics are never going to be normal. they are going to be ideological and see everything through said ideology and try to enforce that ideology on others on the platform.
and they aren't going to allow 'normal' content if normal isn't coded/policed to be consistent with their beliefs.
reddit was 'normal' until 2016, and then slowly every aspect of the site was politicized. i used to have lots of different viewpoints and a general consensus in the middle somewhere. after 2016 reddit started fracturing into more extremist camps who would take over various subreddits and impose their views on everyone else.
I definitely have no interest in content where it's just conservatives who want to pretend that it's normal to hate people or whatever. I meant more like, fun memes, earth photography, local events, etc.
Have you tried Mastodon? It's more like a replacement for twitter but there's definitely accounts you can follow that just do memes, photography, muppet gifs, etc... You can certainly fill a feed with that there.
Mastodon leans heavily to the nerd/geek side, very very few normies have ever signed up