Not that it isn’t a great place as it is
it already is
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.
Copious amounts of drugs? No way to get all these divergent views to come to joy without chemical enforcement.
LSD bby
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.
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.
I was hoping for more levity. Like pictures of kitties inside of smol objects 🤷♀️
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
Maybe some kind of causal game.
Canvas is pretty fun, but it ought to be possible to come up with something else, something that other places don’t have.
Could also attempt to do content competitions. Gamedev-jam, music composition, graphics, painting etc. Just use long deadline please. No shorter than a month.
More courtesy, listening, and empathy of the human. I have seen too many times users jump to conclusions, extremes and high levels of hatred in their words. Things that if done in person would also cause others to avoid the situations, but when done online we all give it a pass. I’m sure I’m guilty of this as well. 🫠
I agree. Sometimes words can’t fully express what we mean because we also rely on subtle cues from facial expressions and body language, and not everyone is a good writer. I’ve realized that my partner and I sometimes misunderstand each other, but things become clearer when we meet in person.
More non-tech niche hobbies, which need more non techie adoption in a way
IME, that sort of content just gets ignored here, no comments, few votes
Which is why we need more activity there
