From my own experience as a user, it doesn’t matter whether you choose kbin or Lemmy in terms of what content you see. However, yes the look and feel for new users is much better with kbin (especially on iOS). Lemmy has some amazing front ends in development though that will eclipse kbin very soon. It’s just a matter of time.
I really wasn't ready as sick as I did until I started watching Redact edit every single comment one-by-one, watching so many years of comments going by. It's rare to watch an era play back in front of you before it disappears like that. But at the same time I feel a lot more free to explore new platforms (like this one, this is my first comment on kbin :D). I'm ultimately glad that, while for abhorrent reasons, I was given the oppertunity to disconnect from Reddit and find more niche communities and websites again. I felt like it was 2004 all over again.
It’s true that porn is a big part of the internet at large. You can point to countless examples where a product (even social media) lived and died by porn.
But there are also countless examples where porn was never a factor. Most of the major social platforms today have always had an anti-porn approach. It’s debatable whether that helped or hindered their growth, but it’s always been a thing.
Now, I can’t think of any where porn was a big part of their platform that got removed, and they came out ok. Maybe that’s (part of) why Reddit has been downplaying porn for a while.
Right now, there is plenty of porn in the fediverse. But there will be the same challenges as any user-submitted porn site. There’s currently a big discussion about categories that are unwanted, generally offensive, and illegal in certain jurisdictions. The fediverse makes all of that more complicated. There’s also a big concern about the content being uploaded directly, increasing the load on every instance that federates.
There will definitely be porn here, but I don’t think it’s going to work the same as it did on Reddit.
From a practical perspective, if someone for example takes the stance that if you're not a feminist you're a sexist and refuses the label of egalitarian. Then they're obviously the sexist one.
From a more theoretical but still really important perspective, life is a quite a bit more complicated than that.
Two person may believe different facts about the world, and as a result have opposite expectations for how an egalitarian person should behave. Obviously in this situation at least one of them would be wrong, but in practice, getting all the facts right is hard enough that I expect that often times both people aren't completely right about their facts.
Even if both persons are egalitarian minded and have the same facts, they can have different ways to interpret these facts (aka they have different ideologies), which can again lead to them having opposite expectations for how an egalitarian person should act. I'd argue that some ideologies are much more suspect than others, unsurprisingly I tend to find feminist ideologies extremely suspect.
Even if both persons have the same facts AND they interpret them in the same ways. They may value different things which would again lead to different expectation as to how an egalitarian person should act.
Of course anti-egalitarians who want to leverage the political power of presenting themselves as egalitarian will use all three of these as tools to hide their true agenda.
Reddit had been to go-to place for NSWF content, which drove a ton of traffic and engagement for reddit. If the fediverse is to succeed, it must target the same use case.
The difference now is that Gab exists and those people have been going over there for a few years now. As long as the fediverse doesn’t become an echo chamber like Reddit I’ll stay happy.
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