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Are neurodivergent people more attracted to alternative spaces like this one? (feddit.cl)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/autism
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I'm not sure if is just me but it trully does seem that the prevalence of neurodiversity in places like this is way higher than in the average population.

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[โ€“] BackOnMyBS 1 points 11 months ago

I think an interesting factor to consider is our perspectives on power and control. Autistics tend to not believe in the social hierarchy and believe decisions should be made with objective information. Therefore, autistics will tend to avoid conforming and tolerating environments that disagree with their values, especially when presented with a more aligned alternative. Facebook and Instagram are basically social hierarchy competitions. Reddit also has that issue with the karma system, but the recent API fiasco was clearly a violation of generally accepted values for hypocrisy and control. When we found Lemmy, we had the opportunity to engage in a community with horizontal organization structure that also valued the things we were upset with Reddit over. It worked out pretty nice for us.

I'm a bit concerned with what may happen if this place ever becomes popular like Reddit. I've noticed that I tend to stay away from the main anything. The culture becomes almost formulaic, predictable, and critical...ultimately boring and unattractive to me. A good example of this is /r/funny, which is a place with a large membership and I never thought was funny. Hopefully, that wont be the case for us here. Maybe we can keep it awesome like it's been up to now ๐Ÿ™‚