I’m not a parent, but I have much empathy for your predicament. You have the right to question this stuff, and learn about it, and decide how to handle it, without being judged. But, as others have said, I seriously doubt you’ll find that on social media, which for this issue is so politicized as to be utterly useless. It sounds like you could use a support group.

There might be a few resources on Substack:

• http://www.thestoicmom.com/ - I saved this a few months ago after seeing a link to it.
• https://pitt.substack.com/ - I know practically nothing about this one, but when I test-joined the above just now, Substack recommended it. I do see some anti-trans shitposts in the comments though.

For the Stoic Mom project, its perspective is the philosophy of Stoicism (so, she has that background), but she also has a trans daughter and appears to do consultations.

You might also consider contacting Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic, who wrote about this and is very well respected. Maybe he’d tell you which support groups he spoke to? You could also try to contact this woman, although I’m not sure how. Both are admittedly long shots.

Good luck.

Thanks for this. It was very well-reasoned, and gave me a perspective I hadn’t thought of before.

Do note that I said “vast majority.” Would anyone argue that most of Lemmy’s user base doesn’t consist of ex-Redditors? Weren’t there about 1200 people on Lemmy as recently as a few months ago? Lemmy is basically now an open-source subreddit for memes and anti-Reddit brigading, with occasional tech news links from Beehaw. It probably wasn’t that before, but that was before.

As for the roots of the platform being communists and socialists, who are more to the left than ex-Redditors, I can’t argue that. Reddit is mostly young American liberal democrats, and that’s not communism. So I’ll take it back.

Really though, I’m unsure why I’m even posting. Maybe it’s because the OP’s premise seems so ridiculous and reminds me of the kinds of posts I see on Reddit? With posts like this, generally from the young and uninformed, I sometimes get triggered into commenting.

Lemmy is left-leaning because the vast majority of its users are Reddit refugees, and Reddit is left-leaning. There is no other reason.

Since that’s just a GitHub repo, can anyone explain the tech behind this?

Is this a pilot? Proof of concept? Who would use it? Has there been press about it? What’s the context?

I’m sure I’ll be downvoted or ignored, but I am not replacing Reddit with Lemmy. I’m using them both, except on my phone. There, I no longer use Reddit due to the need for the official app.

Lemmy has done a great job in a short time and it has a lot of awesome energy, but it doesn’t have the user base to support interesting discussions in niche subjects that I care about, or be a source of information in those. I doubt it ever will, although I’m rooting for it.

If I scroll through Lemmy in my subs or in c/all, I see three things:

• Memes
• Anti-Reddit brigading
• Shitposts

I love me some memes, and Lemmy is actually better than Reddit right now for those, but if I want information, I can’t get it on Lemmy. I might be able to get tech news, but I have RSS / Hacker News / Slashdot for that.

As an example, I’m switching from Evernote to Obsidian for note-taking and it’s a pain in the ass. Reddit has an 80k user subreddit for Obsidian, where within 10 minutes, somebody solved my problem. That kind of thing is never going to happen on Lemmy.

Insight. They mean insight.

It’s a stupid idea that brings them no value and it’s user-hostile.

I didn’t realize it could be turned off though! I guess that’s useful for when I hold my nose and scroll quickly through the meme subreddits to find things for my meme text chains.

The most sleazy thing it does is that if you want to download or share an image with your friends in, say, a text chain, it brands that image with Reddit crap.

They go completely out of their way to make the app unusable.

John Wick 4. Seemed like 2 uninterrupted hours of people shooting one-another in the face. I only made it 30 minutes.

Such content farm clickbait, typical of The Verge and all its equivalents.

An entire article about how you can click a link to go to your Google settings. That’s why the modern web is so crappy.

This worked for me! Thanks. Based on the other comments, I guess someone had searched for that before.

Looking forward to an easier method, but this is fine for now.

That subreddit is, and has been for some time, an utterly atrocious place. It’s filled with low-effort posts and junk memes and interesting discussion is impossible. It’s barely moderated. The median age is 10.

As a 13-year MC player who is totally obsessed with the game, I literally unsubbed from /r/minecraft some time ago and didn’t miss it.

Here’s hoping we get some critical mass on Lemmy or Kbin to build a MC community for an actual MC community. It’s badly needed.

Does the syntax look like this? @gaming@kbin.social

I searched for this just now on my home Lemmy and it didn’t work.