I know there are plenty of software missing from here. This is just a fun infographic I made, no need to take it seriously :)

  • edel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    14 hours ago

    Screw me! I feel bad because instead of welcoming those now disenchanted MAGA, we are shunning them away and pushing them toward Musk’s new party and the like. We did same mistake after Trump’s 1st term too.

    • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      10 hours ago

      Agreed. Lots of missed opportunities, and Lemmy is also shunning away their allies against Trump by overusing the words Nazi and Fascist to describe every poster that disagrees with Democrats. My gf, who is very very anti-Trump, lasted on Lemmy one day. One day!

      She said it was way too hateful and political. lol

      I feel bad even recommending it to her, and I don’t recommend it to any of my friends anymore.

      Lemmy will die in a few years because of it’s extremism. It’s already slowing down. But I’ll ride it to the end to prove to people that they didn’t bully me off of it. :)

      • edel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        Let me know if you find a better venue… I am also disappointed in Lemmy. Is it so hard to find a place where people try to understand why things are one way and another before slapping each other.

        I’d lived in a very swing state, in a very swing county and thanks to that predicted elections like no pollster did (even Trump in 2016 as he came down a escalator and every media laughed at him)… I saw no more malice in an average Trump voter than a Kamala one, I find a portion of them both as equally racist (some 30% I would say), one just is more vocal and explicit while the other chooses to express the racism passively aggressive… Two black family moved into our street and one Trumper told me that he does not like the “blacks in front” and a long time Democrat neighbor told me instead… that she was going to move to a better school district “because demographics”… what is the difference?

        • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Let me know if you find a better venue… I am also disappointed in Lemmy.

          I still love Lemmy, and my main Lemmy instance. But ugh, everything is getting so political and extreme everywhere. I’m trying to transition into just posting my writing and staying in writing communities, but my reputation proceeds me (still no regrets and I still believe in everything I said) and things can downgrade pretty quick.

          And if I came up with an alt name, people would recognize my writing and say I was ban-evading.

          So ugh, we’ll see. I’m trying to just stay out of everything political, but people mention my fucking name all the time anytime someone talks about “trolls.” And I never back down when I get false accused. lmao

          • Tenderizer78@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            I think the issue is that too many people think they can social-media post their way back to the Biden-era. Although in this particular Lemmy instance there’s also the pro-Russia stuff (that’s a different beast, and I don’t know where it comes from).

            There’s no solution to our political crisis that doesn’t involve touching grass.

          • edel@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            I see how you feel with your Peertube song.

            Of course, Lemmy is an amazing FOSS tool, just sad many people (if so) are a bit toxic… Of course, I was blamed in the past as troll, bot, pro-putin, pro-china, pro-european, pro-american… and few actually get involved in a insightful conversation. The way i see it, Lemmy (or any of these mediums) are just entertainment and our work should be in the real world, with your neighbors and physical communities.

            • Universal Monk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              1·
              11 hours ago

              I see how you feel with your Peertube song.

              haha, thanks! Yeah, I was feeling creative that day. I figured, “Hey, I should make a Lemmy song!” You reminded me of it, so I posted it to a nerdcore comm just now. lol

              I’m with ya. I LOVE the decentralized nature and concept of Lemmy. Just wish some of the more extreme rhetoric would die down. Because this would make a great creative space. People should def not take it quite so seriously and spend more time outside.

              But as an aside, I just had a talk with one of the admins for my instance, and it was a great convo and they are supported of creatives here. So right now, feeling good.