Blazingtransfem98

Good point, On Mastodon there are a handful more options but it's generally not much better over there. Point is the Fediverse is suffering from becoming a collection of exclusive clubs rather than a social media platform.

The top 3 servers on Lemmy are private clubs as of now, they may not have been before but they certainly are now. There are barely any for normies to join. I only found discuss.online because I was lucky enough to, and lets face it this is the only real option because the other one has a swear in the name and most people won't want to join an immature server like that.

You can't just pick a server, your options are severely limited, if discuss.online goes away or converts to a club too, there won't be any options. You can't "just pick a sever" that only works if you have choices. This is the last one, after that no more choices.

Yeah it's actually a much bigger problem here than it is on Mastodon. Probably will end up slowing adoption of Lemmy in the future. Especially considering Lemmy is one of those platforms that really needs normie content and normie interaction to keep going, something it's really struggling at currently.

Beehaw sucks, they embraced the exclusive club mentality harder than anyone else.

Deemed by who? People who don't want to adopt new things? It's not too hard they just don't want to do it and will make any excuse not to.

Talk shit about normies all you want but they're most of the people who repost memes and give communities life, you can't cut them out and expect to have a thriving community. These practices of elitism and exclusion are the reason why Mastodon and the fediverse as a whole are stagnating.

How many more of your comments are AI generated?

You don’t have to do that when you sign up for mstdn.social, and it’s also not a requirement for mastodon.social And there are more instances where you don’t have to apply like that.

Yes, and we need much more like that if we want this platform to be sucessful as a whole. Normies want to join social medias, not clubs.

But when it’s asked that you apply to the server, it’s usually to ease the load of moderation, to see if you would fit the vibe of that instance. And/or to protect the more vulnerable people on that particular instance.

We all know or should know that running a platform like a club where people need to apply and have their worth manually determined is a toxic and unwelcoming environment that does not promote any kind of growth, and the fact that it is common and encouraged is not helpful to the fediverse long term. It just pushes normies away. Because a social media doesn't ask people to apply, a club does. Most people don't want to join small exclusive clubs.

That doesn't make me feel any better about it, a dildo is a toy, it's not something that should be attached to your body, especially in the spot my vagina would be. It feels very wrong.

My problem is having any pickle (penis) of any size down there. Gives me really bad dysphoria. It's better than it used to be, but I wish I didn't have anything sticking out down there ya know. Like cis girls.

How about because AI generation is prone to misinformation, is often straight up plagarism, and finally is just lazy and low effort garbage.

@[email protected] Need your input on this as the admin of this person's homeserver, are you thrilled about people on your server posting this kind of lazy ass AI spam in the rest of the fediverse?

Great, so you want to join a club instead of a social media? Is that it? Because that's what you're advocating for, small private clubs which most normies don't have enough interest to join, out of fear of being rejected or just being rejected multiple times anyway. "Wonder why it's so empty here?" -Lemmy Users trying to figure out why their exclusive Lemmy clubs haven't taken off.

Most people aren't satisfied with Lemmy's very small and stagnant growth, and I can say I'm one of them, asking people to prove their worth and rejecting them for being a normie is a horrible strategy for growth.