Fediverse is Continuing, Growing, and Strong

It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!

ALTimage

https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50

Total users are huge now.

There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

fediverse.observer/stats&months=50

Reddit is an AI dumpster fire. There are still decent communities, but the glory days are behind it (the 20teens). Reddit circa 2012-15’ was peak. Now it’s an AI slop infested milquetoast facebook alternative. Damn shame. Hopefully the user base will finally realize the ship has sailed straight up it’s own corporate butthole, and seek alternatives, such as this one.

You couldn’t have certain reddit subreddits here. For example, I follow r/Sverige which is the political right’s Sweden channel. And they talk about immigration as a major problem. How open would Lemmy be to discussions like that? It can’t even handle different opinions without defederation and downvoting.

No, i think Lemmy is good for memes and stuff but it can’t handle discussions that adults wants to have.

Nothing is stopping you from making a community and then banning people until it is sufficiently echo-chambered for you. ML or Hexbear might even welcome you.

I personally know several expats living in Sweden. I’m pretty aware of both sides of the discussion. From the outside, it comes off mostly tone-deaf, but with some real points around failing to integrate immigrants. There’s also a significant amount of FUD and interference trolling, riling people up.

For people living in Sweden, it’s a hotbed of controversy as the places you consider safe are changing around you.

Would anti-immigraition accepted in open arms in lemmy general social forums? Absolutely not.

But if you want your own echo chamber, there are places that would allow it.

Was that a response to me? I definently don’t want to own the discussions. I just said people want to discuss it and Lemmy is not a good place for it.

People will discuss it on reddit. It’s fine. :)

About Sweden, yes it’s a “hotbed” mildly speaking, the same as in Europe overall. Its not popular with massive immigration but since we can’t discuss that here, let’s not.

If you want random people across the world to validate Sweden’s distaste for immigrants, no, you won’t like the outcome here.