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I honestly just don't care what kind of people are on Lemmy as long as they're friendly. Those who are not friendly are just immediately blocked by me, so I don't see their comments (behavior).
To comment on your comment;
I'm a Windows 11 user and never had this problem. Sure there might be comments saying they prefer Linux overall but that does not make the comment section less-friendly. Overall when it comes to tech questions, I have had great help (Windows, RSS-feeds, Piracy and even just Prime subtitle issues).
So toxicity is on every platform, Lemmy too. Block those who are toxic and your problem slowly but steadily solves by itself. I once read somewhere to most Tech-savvy people tend to be more Left-leaning, which is fine. If you don't agree with their viewpoints, thats fine too. Just ignore it. The problem is the more right-leaning a community becomes, the much more toxic it becomes. It becomes less about tech, debates and much more about hating 'the other'.
I, personally, are more centre-leaning and had checked more right-leaning communties and oh boy - It was pretty much 90% hates, dislikes and not so friendly things about ''the other side'', ''the other people'' and such than actual useful debates and comments.
When I just joined, I read that Lemmy is mostly for tech-people. So it's obvious that more Linux, piracy and overall tech users are here. It does align with how people have to join Lemmy and setup their subscribes for communties and all.
So that's the major issue with Politics. People are just hot-headed and very steadfast in their political opinion. It's obvious there will be lot of arguing and crusade. It happens on every platform (Lemmy, Reddit, X, Insta and you name it).
I rather not. I blocked NSFW content, there are dating apps and such. Sex and porn are categorized within the NSFW content.
For me personally, yes. But it makes the overall site worse. Like a tragedy of the commons almost.
I don't think there's anything to do against that but correct me if I'm wrong. There are rules already to try counter that problem but there's only so much a community can do against it. Every platform has this particular issue (some worse than the other). The best thing to 'fight' against it for yourself is blocking the particular people and communties.
You can call them out when you see it. This helps the community, but makes your personal experience worse because you're always fighting.
You see doing this will make your own experience worse. They want you to engage. Just block. The community will know by the particular person behavior how rude the person is.
People keep saying they want more NSFW, but no one wants to host it themselves. Maybe like there is risk involved allowing NSFW content?
I think the risk of getting certain unwanted content posted on it. Though, I'm not sure how it all works with the content that's posted and the owner of the instance. Though there are certainly NSFW communities (I, personally, just blocked them because that's not my jam).
"I'm sure it exists, I just blocked it because I personally don't like it" - everyone on lemmy
Communities outside of tech and politics are very very small and slow. Especially anything NSFW. There's a lot of prudish and ace people in the current crop of lemmy users.
Lets agree to disagree? Because you cannot generalize the entirety of Lemmy about this topic. Lemmy certainly has NSFW content which means it is not everyone that blocks it. Not only that, there's a phrase that goes like; ''be the change'' or something like that. If you want NSFW content to flourish, then start a community like that and post it. Perhaps people might join the community and post too.
I genuinely don’t understand it. If you want sexual content and it’s not on Lemmy, there are other specific sites for that, right? Like I mentioned before, Lemmy itself is already a tech-based platform which means tech-savvy people will be more on Lemmy and that means lots of tech-talk. Politics will be big on every platform because that's just a important topic in life. Life basically evolved around politics.
Not wanting to see sexual content does not directly mean someone is prudish, it just literally means they don't want to see that kind of content now. Therefore people block it. It's not that deep (no pun intended).
For example for me, when I'm on Lemmy I want to see; Tech, Piracy, some politics, bit of anime debate (non-sexual) and some jokes. Nothing else. If I want anything else, there are other places to visit.
Lemmynsfw.com is still around