That Lemmy, as a network, should be highly exclusive and free of 'normies'. I can understand someone wanting their own instance to be highly insular and controlled, but if the point of Lemmy is to build a web of community-driven sites which will pull people away from the corporatocratic current iteration, we can't do that if we're making people feel unwelcome if they don't conform to our own little narrow wedge of views.

There are definitely some absolutely wild political takes on Lemmy, even outside of .ml, which leave me feeling some people are completely off their rockers.

The virtue signalling here is exhausting and constant. It doesn't matter what you post or where, 1/4 of the comments will be trying to convince you that you are horrible for whatever it is you posted about, and how the obvious moral thing would be to run off into the woods and eat berries. Everyone is boycotting everything. No nuance ever.

Example: You donated time at a homeless shelter and want to provide a link to others to help donate? The page takes paypal, don't you understand how horrible that is, and you're horrible for suggesting they pay in paypal!

I think it scares a lot of people away from Lemmy, and frankly from our political causes as well. People spend so much time making everyone else feel terrible for even moderately trying that they just give up, the other side is usually pretty willing to accept them in and say "no no, you aren't horrible, look you're a good person". With Lemmy and Reddit they feel annoyed as hell here and not welcome, go back to Reddit where they get a warm hug in the thread. With politics they'll all share in how the other side is crazy. It feels good to be included, and Lemmy is very exclusive.

For a bunch of nerds who claim to have been picked on a lot in high school, we sure do push people away quite a bit.

To turn the example around, a better way to rephrase the response would be "Hey very cool! Is there a way to pay without paypal?"

I really really just want to look at pictures of cats without people bringing up Trump or Musk or Epstein. Yes politics are important and that’s why there are political communities, but even Anne Frank wrote about other stuff in her diary sometimes.

Nintendo is nowhere near the worst thing in the video game industry right now. Not saying I agree with everything they do, but compared to pretty much every other AAA? Their games actually feel like complete products on day 1, they don't fire half their employees as soon as a game releases, they don't try to get kids hooked on gambling, and they don't fund genocide.

I agree with the hivemind's general direction, but I really hate its absolutist thinking style, which dictates:

1. Every issue has exactly two sides: the Right side and the Wrong side, and they're extreme opposites.
2. Nuances don't exist; if you think they do you're just shilling for the Wrong Side.
3. Moral and ethical purity are expected of everyone, zero tolerance, no allowance for human weakness - and if you don't agree then obviously you would forgive Hitler for "human weakness".
4. Everybody is the worst person they've ever been. If you cured cancer and brought about world peace, you'd still be a piece of shit for Liking a misogynistic tweet in 2015, and so is anyone who hasn't taken you off their Friend list and spat on you.

Lemmy was huge on Proton, even after their dickbag CEO openly supported conservative billionaire talking points.

The few of us who condemned Proton got downvoted to hell everytime we brought up why. Now, the Proton spell seems to finally be breaking, thankfully. But that was fkn crazy, Lemmy. Seriously. My trust for the Lemmy zeitgeist has seen better days.

You're hard pressed to find a more vindictive audience than what we've got here. Everyone's on a constant hunt for something to disagree about or to maybe spot a small crack that lets the actual motives shine through and when they spot something they point it out viciously. Can't just politely disagree with anyone let alone try and have a constructive conversation about how much we actually disagree about. No, they used AI and thus this person gets written off completely and called an asshole and fascist for it.

This makes even less sense when you consider the fact that usually the underlying reasons are political. To win in politics, all you need is numbers. That's it. So why the fuck is everyone constantly put through this Navy SEALs hell week level of scrutiny. Nobody is ever good enough. Sometimes makes it feel like some simply want to lose just so that they can keep complaining how everything is the fault of someone else.

Well since US elections wrapped up yesterday, I'll go with lemmy.world having the memory of a bacterium and thinking everything is gonna magically get better because dems have control of congress.

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The mindset that treats AI like the bubonic plague. It's not something that should be avoided. If used properly, it can be a great asset for people.

AI is just a tool, and you shouldn't blame it for humans' misuse of it. Instead, we should treat it like other tools: as something to use for appropriate situations/tasks.

The "if used properly" is the hard part: AI is good for simple tasks, like organizing and labeling things. However, as of 2026, AI is not sufficient for tasks involving creativity like art and music. It doesn't capture that human aspect yet (It could in the future).

TL:DR: My point is that AI isn't inherently bad, like many people make it out to be. Instead, it's how humans use it that can make it bad.

People are generally too obsessed with the current thing and the news cycle rather than the bigger picture.

For example, I hate Trump for ICE, the Iran War, and affordability. I hated him for those things yesterday and I'll hate him for those things tomorrow. But people seem to think there needs to be constant, wall-to-wall coverage about how every time he sneezes it's the worst thing anyone's ever done and his mucus is now defiling the dignity of the noble halls of blah blah blah. It's counterproductive for so many reasons, first it lets the enemy control the focus, second people just get tired of hearing it, third it takes the focus away from the GOP in general, when Trump is a lame duck who'll be gone soon anyway. And the shit about how he'll cancel elections was always exaggerated and unrealistic, but it was taken as absolute fact, you had people being like, "Oh, you sweet Summer child," and whatnot just if you acknowledged the midterms would happen. So now those people have egg on their face and someone might see that and think, "Oh, people were being alarmist, Trump isn't as bad as people thought after all."

Not me, though obviously. Because I still hate him for ICE, the Iran War, and affordability. The same reasons I hated him yesterday and the same reasons I will hate him tomorrow.

use Enterprise or Server

Still has the Xbox play firewall rules baked in from home/pro, is only QA tested by the crappy insider hub who only use home/pro, and eats just as many resources as home/pro.

Server meanwhile is still propped up by the futuristic technology of AD straight out of 2003.

Enterprise doesn't even add anything compared to pro aside from like a couple of apps/tools default installed that you can also get on windows education. It's literally just a business licence so that MSFT can charge more for businesses that have a much larger budget.

voting third party is taboo

being vegan is too radical

I don't consider my self a paragon of moral virtue and intellectual genius based on my political opinions.

I also really enjoy my PS5 and my Switch 2. That's not allowed here.

AI is the devil, humanity is doomed, parents are evil / selfish / idiotic for having kids, cars shouldn't exist no matter what, the list goes on...

Also, 99% of the population here is Western. Nobody ever recalls that different cultures can have different opinions, different priorities, different cultural mores, etc — and I'm not talking about China vs US here. (I may still be a little salty about being temp banned for a 'dogwhistle' that's nothing of the kind in Asia).

Sometimes I wonder why I'm still on Lemmy, the toxicity is pervasive and exceeds anything Reddit had.

I use pro, kinda depends on how far back you go. 8-8.2 was the last time I remember feeling like it was uniformly bad under pro licensing.

Self driving cars have the same issue that doctors have, which is liability. US is not the ideal nation for them. I think electric cars are pretty undeniably the future though. Brushless torque is hard to beat, although I think there's going to be a place on the road for combustion for a very long time from now, maybe 50 years+

• PeerTube is an alternative to YouTube.

Yeah, it's just not. The disgusting monitizing on YouTube is what makes content creators post there.

There is very good content on PeerTube, but I can't fucking find it, and when I do, it's not exclusive, so I might as well watch it on YouTube where the creator gets paid and where it's easier to happen upon with a regular search and not having to build a feed from various more or less federated sources. As much as I want to, it's simply too difficult to use.

I really really want an alternative to YouTube, but I think this one needs a complete rethinking of what the service is supposed to do and how it can be done. Not from a developer point of view, but building from the user experience.

I have a couple:

"Posting the same content to multiple comms is a bad". Posting to multiple comms should be encouraged so long as it is relevant to each of them. The Threadiverse is federated and so there are many comms for the same or similar content, not every user is in or wants to join every single one. Your feed is yours and out should treat it as such, don't complain that another user is ruining you're feed because you decided to sort by new and are in multiple of the same or similar comms.

".ml are all just trolls / tankies / bad". The few trolls on .ml are given infinitely more weight than the genuine ML users, and the .world zionists and centre-right liberals are propped up as exemplary users despite constantly stoking a flame-war that most users don't give a shit about. ML has just as much of a right to ban political dissidents from their comms as any other instance. Explicitly leftist instances exist for a reason and you don't have to interact with them if you don't agree.

This last one is more of a subconscious view within the "Lemmy hive mind". The Lemmy defaultism gets exhausting (even if a minor grievance) and I wish "Lemmy" was reserved for things that are actually only relevant to Lemmy as opposed to using it as a general term for the threadiverse. I know that Lemmy was the first and is the largest and all, and it's understandable that it would be seen as the default (similar to Mastodon for the microblogging side of things), but I wish there was more of a culture around getting users to stop referring to the whole federation as if it's a single piece of software (similar to the culture on the microblogging side).

Yeah enterprise windows is significantly less awful than personal windows, though i still hate it with a passion.

My own take is that many lemmings hold companies, their products and the people behind them to way too high of a moral standard. I see a lot of "oh this company sent a dev kit to this one guy once but it turns out that that guy tweeted some bad stuff at some point, I'm never buying from that company again". (Yes, I am also talking about Proton, but pre-AI-tailspin Proton, what's happening now is too much I think)

i don't see much of a hive mind. it runs the gamut. you see more linux stuff sure but its an open source non corpo area and on top of it windows users don't think about the tech they use the way linux users do. I remember being excited by how soon self driving cars were going to be given they were almost here but a little bummed they were not flying. back in the naughts that is.

LW is American style liberal with its many problems. Mods aren’t the best.

DB0 is cringe pro AI and somewhat not that anarchist

ML has some cringe users that don’t just support ideologies but praise leaders such as Xi as if they’re their god when they aren’t even Chinese or have ever been to China, lol. Talking with such users when my field is China is quite funny.

Solorpunk is too offline to have a hivemind.

"Anyone who uses any form of AI is intellectually inferior to me" Not condoning dependency on AI, or the risks involved with it, btw