I get downvoted everytime I point out that a healthy network comes with users. Lots of users. Users of all kinds. Users you don't agree with. Users you do agree with. I said that the userbase of threads being on Lemmy would be a culture clash, but it would be a sign of a growing fediverse concept.

Everyone else says if the threads users federated with Lemmy, they would personally block the instance. Which just shows how much of a bubble the people here want to live in.

I work at an airport. You will never see a more diverse group of people from a bigger selection of places than at an international airport. I don't agree with all of them. I don't agree with the majority of them. But I can converse with them. I can make small talk for 10 minutes.

I treat the fediverse as I treat the real world. I wouldn't look at these people and say "You're banished from my existence for having conflicting politic or religious beliefs! Begone from my presence! You do not deserve to exist in my world!"

But thats how people here treat "outsiders" or "normies".

I want the fediverse concept to grow. I want the idea of a concept that's immune to corporate ownership by design to BE normalized.

Because right now, it's a niche interest that 98% of people have never heard of. Corporations want to keep it that way.....if they've even heard of the Fediverse. They might to be too busy exploiting labor, and polluting the planet with their private jets and resource sucking plants located in places that already have water shortages.

Yes I'm talking to you Nestle, and you Starbucks CEO. I don't know how this comment turned into a rant against them specifically, but fuck Nestle, and fuck Starbucks.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Perhaps it's just me having different priorities, but I have no interest in making small talk with lots of people. There's plenty of spaces for that already whilst the spaces for enthusiasts have been sacrificed to the general public.

I'm not arguing this specifically about Lemmy, or trying to suggest policy, I'm just chipping in that there's at least something to be said for not trying to make all social spaces for all people.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 5 points 1 month ago

The idea is not to have to talk with everyone in the circle, but to have enough people to create a long tail of niche interests.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Small talk is important. It leads to big talk.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Small promo for !casualconversation@lemm.ee

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Subscribed! Great catchall community.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Hope you'll like it there, it's quite chill

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

But please remember that in order to enjoy such diversity of opinions as you mentioned... we must become intolerant.

To the intolerant. There is no faster way to shut down conversations than to allow bullies to dominate everything within their reach.

So long as conversations can be kept "fun", there will naturally be many more to follow, but when they cross the line, then fun-time is over and the people go home. Unfortunately, modding efforts are in short supply here - not as limiting as content creation, but still a constraining factor.