Not that it isn’t a great place as it is
More active hobby communities.
Let frustrated people comments happen without banning. Let us be ourselves, be legendary.
it already is
Everything is political.
I guess the one thing I can think of is mods achieving nirvana and stopping preferential treatment.
Far more AI generated image posts, AI written blogs, and comments from AI bots.
I kid. I kid!
A joyous place? That’s a tall order. I don’t think I can name any joyous places. Anywhere. Ever.
They probably exist, I just don’t know of any. As a result, I don’t know what would make this place like those unknown places.
I struggle to remember the last time I considered any corner of the Internet to be a “joyous place”. At least pre-2020.
Without discussing food, digestion, or hunger: describe the process of eating a grape.
Its always so funny to me when people talk about something “having politics” or “being political”. Everything is political. Politics isn’t just “I like [insert politician]”.
Gotta have a requirement for people to upload an avatar when they make an account (and make the avatars a little bit bigger). Something about old forums seemed like a little village/community because you don’t have to rely on “nametags” (i.e. reading people’s username), but rather, you just know people by their avatars. I can still vividly remember people’s usernames and avatars from an old forum I’d go on when I was a kid. (yes, I know I don’t have an avatar. I’ll do it eventually lol)
I do think lemmy, at least on my instance and the communities I have subscribed to, seems pretty joyous already. It’s not fake-happy like instagram and it isn’t doomer-posting ragebait like reddit. For years, I felt stuck in a social monoculture I didn’t really feel comfortable inside of. There’s a struggle here and some people put a LOT of effort into their messages to more clearly explain their side. I’ve probably “saved” more messages here than I ever did on reddit just so I can look things up when I get a chance or use for reference later. It’s pretty amazing! It’s the first time I’ve felt hopeful about a social forum in a long time.
[now’s the part where I do the thing you said not to mention]
To make lemmy as a whole joyous instead of individually joyous servers that all despise each other, there must be a solution to the political conflicts between the servers. People who lived in the USSR would reminisce about how kind people were to each other back then and I think that probably would follow the same logic in online communities. To make lemmy truly joyous, we have to have a global revolution for the working class.
Sounds like you’d enjoy hexbear. Full of people pursuing the old school forum vibe
Copious amounts of drugs? No way to get all these divergent views to come to joy without chemical enforcement.
LSD bby
Hexbear.net is pretty joyous most of the time
Imma go with “not mentioning tech or politics.”
slrpnk.net coming back oniline
The resolution of the left/liberal conflict. Anarchists and Marxist-Leninists have mostly ironed out our differences to the point of at least being cordial, but liberals and the left still butt heads. Considering Lemmy is never going to not have the left, it will require either the liberals leaving, defederating, or converting to the left. I know you said no politics, but that’s really the basis of ending the toxicity that does exist here.
Political affiliation is such a multi dimensional concept; reducing it to the labels of ‘left’ and ‘liberal’ serves only to downsample the space into something simplistically palatable; a tasty morsel to satiate our baser tribalistic instincts.
If anything, things would be a lot more civil if we conversed about specific beliefs or policies rather creating a symlink between one view and a thousand other tangentially related views and calling it some ‘ism’.
“Leave or conform” what a beautiful world it would be.
It is an oversimplification, but I believe the base of it is the base of conflict here. Do you think we should preserve capitalism, or should we move on from it? Do you think socialism would be nice, but have no plan to get there beyond electoralism, or do you have centuries of historical practice to look to for inspiration? I deliberately said the “left” in vague terms because even if I may disagree with anarchists, I can align with them on moving beyond capitalism. These two groups, the left and the liberal, form the most opposing sides in Lemmy bickering.
I’ll also stand in defense of the “-ism.” I am a Marxist-Leninist. This means I accept Marx’s theories on the law of value, the scientific approach to socialism guided by class struggle and historical materialism, as well as dialectical materialism as a world outlook. It also means I agree with Lenin on his analysis of imperialism, the strategy and tactics of the Leninist party structure, and the necessity to support national liberation movements. Telling someone that I’m an ML lets them know right away that I agree with these things.
I was hoping for more levity. Like pictures of kitties inside of smol objects 🤷♀️
Be the change you seek
Maybe someday.
Everything is politics, especially the “absence” of politics. Would love to have a bit less of (USian) partisan politics though.
I agree, but unfortunately hard to avoid since they (we) are the ones making the most problems
Boot the troublemakers out and mean it.
Especially the ones that are mods of big comms
