I don’t want to gatekeep, but I’m really enjoying Lemmy without normies. It reminds me of the pre-2k internet. Nerds and weirdos just being themselves and celebrating each other’s weirdness.
It’s a trap. It’s all a fucking trap. Next thing you know you’ll be working middle management somewhere and sipping Moscato with boring-ass friends and living vicariously through posts by people half your age on niche boards who dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory or have a ridiculous aquarium or listen to bands you’ve never heard of in a genre you love but now you can’t listen to any more because god forbid your boss gets in your car and you autoplay something other than pop country or classic rock. Your kids’ll do something and you’re like “that’s awesome” and you look over and your partner is frowning at you like “aren’t you going to do something to stop this?”
Just fucking be weird. Normalcy is a fucking trap.
Been there, done that. Only thing I learned is that everyone has their kind of issues, and upper + top management has too many psychos. So thanks, I’ll take your advice and will just be weird :)
I feel like at least 70% of the tweets I get on Bluesky’s Discover page are from trans people.
I’m not complaining, it’s just interesting.
I wonder if it’s an algorithm thing (I follow some trans users) or if Bluesky is simply where they all fled to after the Muskening.
Twitter has an annoyingly persistent hold out crew of lefties and furries as well. Which is a shame, because its cutting into the Bluesky/Mastodon content.
My impression of the main microblogging sites has been:
Twitter: musk fanboys, celebrities and people who can’t/won’t switch
Threads: conservatives, alt-right, grifters and celebrities
Truth social: conspiracy nuts, maggots, alt-right
Mastodon/kbin: nerds, left-wingers and furries
Bluesky: furries, left-wingers and people who liked pre-musk Twitter
You heard it here first, Lemmy is where the normies hang out.
Lemmy: Linux fan boys who will hear no wrong. Also the gays
Do you have a minute to talk about Linux? :)
Lemmy is 1000% not for normies. Not yet, anyway.
I’m not 100% sure what a normie even is, and I suspect there’s a decent chance that makes me a normie.
And if yes… we’re heeeeeeeeerrrrre.
I don’t want to gatekeep, but I’m really enjoying Lemmy without normies. It reminds me of the pre-2k internet. Nerds and weirdos just being themselves and celebrating each other’s weirdness.
But how am I supposed to improve faking not being weird (for the outside world), if we all just let out the full weirdness here? ;)
It’s a trap. It’s all a fucking trap. Next thing you know you’ll be working middle management somewhere and sipping Moscato with boring-ass friends and living vicariously through posts by people half your age on niche boards who dedicate their house to model trains or polyamory or have a ridiculous aquarium or listen to bands you’ve never heard of in a genre you love but now you can’t listen to any more because god forbid your boss gets in your car and you autoplay something other than pop country or classic rock. Your kids’ll do something and you’re like “that’s awesome” and you look over and your partner is frowning at you like “aren’t you going to do something to stop this?”
Just fucking be weird. Normalcy is a fucking trap.
Uh… how are people doing this?
I was just trying to grab a wide cross-section of interests. I don’t have any advice for combining them, but good luck!
Been there, done that. Only thing I learned is that everyone has their kind of issues, and upper + top management has too many psychos. So thanks, I’ll take your advice and will just be weird :)
Lemmy isn’t really microblogging though.
And tankies…
Being a Mastodon user does not make me a nerd, left-winger furry.
I mean,
I am a left-winger furry nerd,
But not because I’m on Mastodon!
something something correlation/causation
I feel like at least 70% of the tweets I get on Bluesky’s Discover page are from trans people.
I’m not complaining, it’s just interesting.
I wonder if it’s an algorithm thing (I follow some trans users) or if Bluesky is simply where they all fled to after the Muskening.
i just wanna tell them, why not fediverse?
Twitter has an annoyingly persistent hold out crew of lefties and furries as well. Which is a shame, because its cutting into the Bluesky/Mastodon content.
where’s parler and tumblr and pillowfort
kbin: centrists
mbin: centrists who like updates
Just got in to bluesky today. Seeing furries is gross, but other than that it seems pretty nice so far?
As a furry, I think you’re gross too.
Lemmy: Tankies and radicalised idiots