Since karma isn’t tracked,

Some third party apps do track Lemmy downvotes though. And I’ve seen plenty of obnoxious posters bring up someones “downvote count” in conversation–just so they can try to win their argument.

We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal.

That’s because so many on Lemmy would rather downvote than post anything.

You don’t have to subscribe to political communities if you don’t want to see political discussion.

True but it seems like the majority of Lemmys like attaching anything and everything to something political. I saw some post about a squirrel or something, just chiling in the heat. Supposed to be cute. Immediately devolved into how fat the squirrel looked and how it must be a MAGA squirrel. Then the conversation just devolved into “cheeto man”(stupidist overused Lemmy term ever!) jokes over and over.

Also, Lemmy: why the fuck do you all think saying “cheeto man” is so hilarious? It’s something that 2nd graders would snicker at. Once. And you all say it over and over. WTF?! No wonder you all can’t get girlfriends.

Zoroastrians

Zoroastrians for the win. I never thought I’d see that word mentioned on here!

The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances.

I don’t think it’s just that. I have seen plenty of people say that no conservative content should be allowed on Lemmy. At all.

Go post a conservative article in c/politics and see what happens. Some of the DM’s you’ll get are actually reportable to the FBI. The anti-conservative streak here is extreme. I’ve reported some of the DM’s I get to the police, and I’m not even conservative, but just because I advocate 3-party voting. People on here can be insane.

I’ve seen plenty of pitchforks go after posters. Even when it’s a neutral article that talks about something positive a conservative politician did or said.

It’s just as much a left-wing echo chamber as Truth Social is a right-wing one - and that’s a problem in both cases.

Very much so. And it seems to be getting even worse lately. I mostly post socialist and third party stuff, but if I dare say I don’t like a democrat or something, I get automatic “YOU’RE ACTUALLY A TRUMPER!! MAGA-NAZI!!!”

Bans and hateful DM’s. All because I don’t like the 2-party system. lol

I know that Reddit doesn’t outright ban Lemmy talk, but on my reddit profile, I updated it with my Lemmy username link. I got banned from reddit a couple of hours later. No reason given. And I hadn’t made any recent posts. Ban reason was “violating rules.” lol

Yep, I had same reaction. Since there are so many tech nerds on here, as most early adopters are, I thought that community would have a lot more content. But I’ll be adding to it soon enough since I just started to learn programming! :)

I had no idea what a tankie was until I started using Lemmy. lol

Good, because .world is one of the more toxic ban-happy instances in the fediverse.

Thanks!

Good tips, thanks!

The Java thing sounds totally uninteresting

Again, about fundamentals. I actually wanna do python since is seems more “fun” but I wanna get all the basics down. And I did read after you have learned the harder languages, learning other languages comes much easier.

But I’ll look into Haskell. Thank you!

Thank you!

I don’t remember being that impressed with HTDP but it’s been a while and I didn’t look much. I’d say read SICP first in either case.

I actually read that HTDP was written to be read before SICP, because they thought that for a beginner, some of the core fundamentals in SICP may be missed.