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this post was submitted on 10 May 2024
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Think of it as the cool/bad kidsโ table in the special-needs school cafeteria
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I am a nonconformist American in my 40s. I'm a Florida native and middle school science teacher. I hate perpetually divisive culture and the corruption that drives it. I read mostly non-fiction, such as history and neuropsychology. I have little to no interest in computer tech, anime or video games. I left Reddit last year like many of you.
I'm a Florida native and middle school science teacher.
That getting harder ? The while anti climate science thing creeping in ? Creationism?
That aside, thank you...for being a teacher I mean.
Teachers are some of the best people. I have a lot of respect for you for doing something so worthwhile. I long for the day when we pay you a lot of money.
I'm on Lemmy and I'm also hyperopic. Therefore, Lemmy is a community with at least one hyperopic.
We are Reddit before it became... Reddit.
More language diverse than Reddit, especially on language based instances. Shout out to the Germans who seem much more active than other languages (such as French or Spanish)
Different per instance, but generally, it feels to me like the conscience and reason from Reddit left the body on that day and moved in here at Lemmy. It hasn't gone back since.
I'm here to have a experience similar to reddit, without the negative load on my mental health.
Do you feel like that's been accomplished here?
Less content than I used to follow on reddit, but much less toxic. So, partially.
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People that miss forums
Still mainly use them!
That's me.
Yo!
There's lots of LGBTQ+ and FOSS (I wonder why lol). Star Trek and science are also becoming rather common (or it just took me a while to find the right communities). I also get the feeling that the age bracket is larger than on other platforms and people seem to be nicer too (at least compared to the month or so I spent looking through Reddit before finding Lemmy).
Following is more about the kinds of post than users. (I don't want to waste your time if that's not what you meant by "common things people see") There's also some videogame and pornography communities (I'm sure there's combinations too) so I do set my client to blur nsfw images and I block video game communities for games I don't play/don't want spoilers from.
Lots of webcomics also seem to be (automatically?) uploaded to their respective communities.
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As a late gen x/"xennial" myself I've noticed there's proportionally more of us here than on other social media.
Tends to be left of centre even without factoring in the communistanarchistsocialist nexus, but also wider political range.
Tends to skew STEM.
Loves cats as much as the rest of the internet but proportionally loves FOSS more.
Strong rainbow presence.
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I don't want to post a small bio of myself for privacy purposes but you could read through my post history to learn some things about me.