hellerpop

At least we now get some attention by constantly overhitting the predictions.

Some people use it for more than just entertainment and killing time. Like getting advice on certain topics like parenting or relationships. How to deal with a partner with certain conditions etc. You can't find that on lemmy.

But intolerance to intolerance should be the last resort and not the default. You should try all the other methods of civilized discourse first.

Umm, yes. It's such a low entry level. Once you signed up for the memes and the cute cats like millions of others you might as well look for some niche topics and find that there are thousands of others like you. That's only possible if you have many many millions of people in the pool.

If you're really serious about your interest of course you'll branch off to other platforms. But even then your reddit community probably pointed you there.

I agree but I wasn't referring to fascism but the principle.

I'm all with you that you have to gauge the person you're interacting with. But if intolerance becomes the goto solution then we give up what we're fighting for. If my son shows intolerance to people of other skin color I will try civilized discourse first and not throw him out of my house at the age of 10. If he's an adult and all discourse has failed then I might show intolerance.

Yeah, well maybe today it's parenting, tomorrow it's about struggles during meditation, next day it's about a certain video game, then astronomy etc. And then the cycle repeats. There are thousands of topics where you can find huge communities on reddit and virtually none on lemmy. I haven't been on reddit since July but I still miss it. I'm patient and hope that in a few years lemmy has grown enough to sustain niche topics.

But intolerance of intolerance should be the last resort and not the default. You should try all the other methods of civilized discourse first.