Like most other people here, I originally came here from reddit. Ive been having a blast so far, and I much prefer the forum-style of this. After about a week of using Lemmy I realized there was something intrinsic to reddit that Lemmy doesnt have. And I wont miss it. Too many people on reddit were way too horny. I was really annoying, but Lemmy seems way more chill. Plus its refreshing knowing that the people on here arent all bots.
Trust me; they’re coming. As a borderline asexual person I’d want nothing more than a non horny refuge, but that will never exist. Humans are far far too horned up to allow for that.
Why not just make or join an ACE community? I don’t have any links handy, but I know I saw at least one searching through places to subscribe to.
That’s a fair question, but more importantly what accent do you fart with? Or is a different one each time?
Great question: It varies depending on what I eat.
I’m asexual, through & through. It’s understandable that sex / sexual content is inevitable in such a wide open space, but on R×ddit, it’s become absolutely constant and inescapable! To the point where non-sexual things are being sexualized, and it’s just become genuinely unnerving and gross.
I want to stop seeing posts commenting on everyday objects and being like “Damn, I’d fuck that!”, as if anyone truly wanted to know that. Ever. Ick.
It’s pretty eye opening to read this. As someone with a fairly high sex drive, I live every day with my body constantly demanding I have sex. It’s not a difficult urge to keep in check, but it is pretty constant.
I think the humor you’re talking about stems from that constant battle. No one (well someone, but not most people) would actually have sex with whatever inanimate object is being posted. Its just making light of that constant urge most of us face.
But I totally get how that could sound disgusting if you don’t share that experience. I will try to keep that in mind for the aces out there.
I’m bisexual myself but I hope they can at least not let things turn into what askreddit turned into with the near constant sexual questions.
i think we are a lot safer, with instances that completely block nsfw, they gonna gather in the more open instances
I’ve really enjoyed how much discussion is going on here! It seems like everyone is excited and happy to be here. Friendly conversations is something I missed on Reddit and I’m happy to have that here.
Oh, there’s still plenty of time for that. I’ve already seen a couple of NSFW Lemmy instances,
That’s disgusting! Tell me exactly where so I know where to avoid! Exactly.
Lol, this is one of the Lemmy moments of all time
I mean, you asked for it lol https://lemmynsfw.com/c/hentai
Annnnnd just like that, I learned that tentacle porn is a thing. Why did I click haha
Call of the void?
It’s been a thing literally for centuries, you’re late :P
We’ll see how that goes as lemmy gets more popular, but yeah, I really like the overall vibe so far.
I won’t miss the adverts.
I’m so tired of being viewed as a revenue source in one way or another. It’s really nice to go open source and not have that any more.
I’ll miss my account, I’ve had it since 2012, but that’s life.
I’m hoping it won’t happen here but the endless shoehorning about how every single little problem anyone under the age of 40 encounters is because of fUcKiNg BoOmErS, and how anyone under the age of 40 is the most oppressed group of people in the history of time.
Ok boomer 👌😎🔥🌿💨
There’s funny horny (tool to tell a joke) and then there’s just horny horny.
And yes, I can do without the second crowd.
I am waiting for some NSFW communities/instances to be created. It has the addition of attracting new users as well.
Hoping they don’t come with a deluge of OnlyFans spam. Reddit had some good niche NSFW subs, but they got watered down with generic content. The same stuff gets posted to every sub, with a mad libbed title to fit the kink. Their profiles are just a hundred of the same picture, titled Would you _____ a ______ or Am I too ____ for ____?
I think the worst offender was a ginger who made it to the top of HotArabGirls or something.
Yes! Those titles were so annoying.
Some of the subreddits could be great, but some could also be really mean and unwelcoming. So far it seems much more friendly here, and I hope that’s not just the honeymoon period.
Part of that came from the same 3 questions being asked every 5 hours from new people. I’m not necessarily condoning or justifying it, but it did get rather annoying in r/Deadpool when every day there were 4 new posts saying “Hey, I’m new to Deadpool, what’s a good place to start reading/catching up?” despite the first item on the sidebar and FAQ was where to start and the big bold letters on a new post screen was “READ THE FAQ”.
Alternatively, I stayed away from other subs like 1911 because if it wasn’t a Springfield, Colt, or $1400 custom job you got berated and told to “save more money”
Oh, yes, the gatekeeping in some subs! Let’s try to avoid that as well.
Lol, I kinda agree, which is somewhat related to another thing I won’t miss: The teenagers.
The lockdown + reddit’s new direction of becoming more like fb/insta has drastically increased the number of teenagers on reddit. I hate it. It’s like an eternal summer-reddit.
The discussions get crappy and stale, they don’t follow rediquette, they are insufferably naive but aggressive with their opinions due to twitterification of their online socialisation. and so.fricking.horny. TIFU and Askreddit almost completely became horny fantasy posting, and I blame the teenagers for it.
God I feel like a terminally-online grumpy old man for saying it, but UGH interacting with teens online is like a human rights violation.
Reminding myself that the person posting the worst opinions I’ve seen in my life is likely a 14 year-old with unrestricted access to the internet from birth is the only thing keeping me sane.
I’ve never taken the time to think about it like this, but it would explain so fucking much.
Hey redditors, what is the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed sexually?
With NSFW content comes a rather gross group of questionable people, whether you’d like to admit or not.
I’m not saying that folks who gravitate towards NSFW content are a sketchy/gross group! I’m just saying that NSFW content will unfailingly bring in those kinds of people.
Another thing I appreciate here is the lack of ragebait. It’s more common in video sharing platforms (which Reddit keeps stumbling over itself trying to become) where you have people deliberately making awful food recipes or doing something completely nonsensical for the sole purpose of clicks and engagement.
Social media in its current state is focused on pissing people off. Twitter and Reddit making decisions to kneecap themselves for the sake of lofty ideals is the best thing that’s happened to the Internet in recent memory.
If you build it, they will come.
The horny people are gonna come here, just watch and see 😉.
What would be nice is a good way to separate the nsfw instances from the others. Then have one account for those and one for normal posting.
Don’t forget those horny bots. Beep boop bop
Especially as a gay guy, seeing massively upvoted posts of a woman holding basically anything (but she’s wearing a low-cut top!!!) got pretty exhausting.
I’ll never forgot how absolutely bonkers r/CablePorn went over this. Top posts all-time were of some truly gorgeous masterful cable-work in server rooms, colorful coordination, gore-to-porn jobs of jumbled mess to near works-of-art. Then some mildly attractive girl posts herself pointing to a comparatively meh small cabling setup it went into meltdown while also becoming one of the top posts at the time.
I mean, I’m a straight man and I would also find that annoying!
Yeah, it started to spill over so subs like r/classiccars and r/dogpictures.
From the outside looking in car culture seems pretty full of that kind of thing anyway.
Not so much the classic car sub, that was mostly folks arguing about what defines a classic car, or folks reminiscing about thier first cars.
I’m gay too. I don’t really understand what this post is about. Your complaint is seeing someone you’re not attracted to? That can’t be right. There has to be something I’m missing.
At least for me, I feel the same way (despite liking women) because I disliked seeing something that was relatively low quality get upvoted purely because of sex appeal. Hell, there’s even a whole sub dedicated to the idea that people just paid attention to the sex appeal, only to be surprised that the content itself was really cool
https://www.reddit.com/r/UNBGBBIIVCHIDCTIICBG/ Upvoted Not Because Girl, But Because It Is Very Cool; However, I Do Concede That I Initially Clicked Because Girl.
Trust me, as a hetero woman, I got so exhausted too. Reddit got so eye-roll-y within…less than 5 minutes sometimes that it made me just leave and go do something productive.
The Internet, sadly, has always been an awful place for women and minorities. I hope we can build a culture here where that kind of shit isn’t tolerated, and all (sans trolls, bigots, racists, and Nazis) are made to feel welcome and respected.
Except the Dutch. Fuck those guys.
Is that a Better Off Ted reference? 😂
Lol Austin Powers: https://libquotes.com/mike-myers/quote/lbb8l7s
