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I guess philosophically, what even is a normie? Can someone who ditches the big popular platforms for this little nuthouse ever really be one?
Sorry, to be clear, I'm using the devs own terminology, and this blocklist they made is ideologically related to what they think "normie" interests are.
https://lemmy.world/post/49817942
yeah this theory doesn't really make sense to me
edit: this seems to be the first post from this 'round' of beanposting https://sh.itjust.works/post/64005127
In the case of that linked post I just trudged through, seems to mean anyone privileged enough to not be fed up with the world in its current state. Aka liberals? Only thing he got right was being pissed at tankies.
idk about philosophically, but historically it's a term used by terminally online racist 4chan users to describe people who don't subscribe to their lifestyle. I've always disliked that it became a popular term because I always have that origin in mind.
it was a term before that...
Yes, but before 2000 it was used sparsely and in a dramatically different context than today. I suggest reading the Wikipedia page for "Normie (slang)".
where does it mention 4chan?
quit talking out your ass.
to put it more politely:
it started being used online in the early 2000s to describe an "outgroup". 4chan was using it basically the same way as everyone else, except their ingroup is racist.
even the wikipedia says as much. the disabled groups and the alcoholics used it to describe an outgroup.
4chan did not invent the term. they just used it like everyone else did.