AITA? I called the cops on my neighbour because her tan was too dark after she came back from visiting her mom in {literally any country south of the States}

There are great discussions here.

The problem is that we have too few users, so most topics you'd want to discuss aren't going to have existing thriving communities to chat with you. All of Lemmy put together is dwarfed by single reddit communities. for niche topics.

I'm not complaining, because the barriers to entry and lack of popular awareness keeps the user base here smarter and more interesting to talk to. But for the good of humanity I do think we need open tech like this to get widespread adoption, and it's going to take a long time. Reddit had almost two decades' head start.

And looking at a timeline, at this point in Reddit's history a few years in, the most popular subs with the early adopters were politics, programming, abe science. Sounds familiar, lol.

Not true! you can get into arguments with random people about Marxism AND Linux!

Honestly I like the conversations here, it reminds me a lot of the old internet.

Be the change you wanna see. They set this up to be as user driven as possible. You can start communities, discussions, all of it. I started a Zombie community to have somewhere to discuss my take on season one of Fear the Walking Dead. Not much engagement yet but ya gotta start somewhere. It'll never take off if everyone who isn't permabanned keeps slipping off to reddit.

There are serious discusions, you just have to find them. Mostly news and technology articles, but there could be more.

There's no lack of people willing to have discourse. No one is asking the questions.

People go to Reddit with hard questions (an other things) they want to crowdsource

People don't come to Lemmy with it, but other than not knowing which tech forum to ask it in, there's no reason they can't.

There is discussion but the userbase's interests arent super wide so at the moment its techy and politicsy. Which is fine at least we arent following reddit which started out with racists, atheiests and child porn.

I've recently been checking out reddit to see discussion on a few topics not covered here, MMA and beyond all reason. I'm shocked by how low quality the comments are. I can open a 900 comment thread and not see a single comment that discusses the thread topic or discusses anything.

We're growing slowly but at least we are growing.

What sort of discussion are you seeking? I'm spending most of my time in the comments, droppin truth bombs on dey heads.

!movies@piefed.social

!casualconversation@piefed.social

!science@mander.xyz

Welcome to 2025 where the platform that promotes nazi rhetoric are the victims.

Yes, we are the baddies, from Reddit 's pov anyway. We will burn down their corporate greed and glass towers! And we shall so it from points that nice desk chair!

Star Ship Troopers is basically American Fascists In Space. The movie is tongue in cheek. (Though in the book, the author is quite serious).

So scenes from the movie are going to give a Nazi vibe, but isn't about supporting Nazis.

Looks like Elon Musk was allowed access to the control room. Steve Huffman swoons over fascists.

get totallynotlemmy ready while you are at it

right like the actual reason is obvious but what's the "official" / stated reason?

Too many beans.

Boring answer: a sub having no mods is a typical reason why a sub gets banned.

Does it have to try hard? Didn't leftist remove themselves from a lot of places and purge their own comments?