I’ve found a few and they seem to be growing as of late:

  • questions about Lemmy demographics
  • anything discussing negative effects of porn
  • benefits of AI
  • negative effects of “wokeness”
  • critiquing of individuals in trans community
  • calling out men as predominant perpetrators of violence towards women
  • anything US pro-conservative

One topic that I’ve noticed used to be a nonstarter and is now popular is anti-democrat conversation.

What are other nonstarters you’ve experienced?

EDIT: seemingly asking people what the community doesn’t want to talk about is a nonstarter

EDIT: calling out men as being predominate perps of violence is NOT a nonstarter and accepted within the community. A select few think that’s being a terf but they are wrong.

  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    22·
    15 hours ago

    I think controversial or even unpopular and a true nonstarter are two different things. “We should bring back racial segregation” is a nonstarter, as it should be. “AI will make life somewhat cheaper” will get you some support, even if it brings out angry luddites and denialists in response.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        3·
        15 hours ago

        Being obvious is almost a requirement. It’s hard to instantly reject something you haven’t heard much about.

        Like, “ancient Egypt never existed” would get curiosity at the very least, despite the fact it’s around as factually incorrect as flat Earth theory. A socially harmful belief like “left handed people are of the devil” would get a stronger negative response yet, once people know you’re serious, but not at the same level as “gay people are of the devil”.

        • venusaur@lemmy.worldOP
          11·
          14 hours ago

          Alright…since you’re being devil’s advocate I’ll lay out some criteria:

          • Topic would almost entirely be received negatively
          • You feel that it’s not something that the community would or should immediately balk at
          • It’s a serious discussion
          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
            4·
            13 hours ago

            You feel that it’s not something that the community would or should immediately balk at

            This happened to you recently, right? This post itself is getting a negative reaction because we can tell, and it comes across as whiny.

            People have opinions on and offline. You can contradict them, which is okay, but people are never going to like it, and that’s okay. Lemmy has a strongly left-wing, open-source bent, and reacts accordingly.

            • venusaur@lemmy.worldOP
              1·
              12 hours ago

              I’m trying to gauge where the community has landed as of late, because like I said in the original post, there have been big shifts like opinions on Democrats and in regards to your questions, I’ve experience some strange intersection between misogyny and pro-transness.