I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I “surprisingly haven’t found any bigotry.”
I’m wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it’s rare, my guess is that even though it’s decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I’m guessing it’s easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.
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Political stuff is as enflamed as ever. I’ll take the beans over that any day.
If you don’t hate Twitter, Reddit, Threads you must love them and are the enemy.
Lots of us vs them hate on this platform like many others. You arnt allowed to have a nuanced opinion or conversation about some things.
Yeah, I got into an exchange the other day where a dozen users made a point of telling me why they support using misogynistic slurs, or how the slur isn’t any worse than other impolite words, or how it isn’t really misogynistic, or how it’s okay when used against evil people.
It was real disappointing, and I’m strongly considering unsubbing the community where the thread took place.
That sounds like a good plan, very disappointing though.
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I wonder how your experience differs from mine, being on an instance with no downvotes.
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I think everyone I’ve encountered has been very polite. Well, except the one person who said my crochet project looked like Chewbacca shit. Jokes on them - i didn’t buy the wookie yarn; i bought the Groot yarn and they just can’t tell the difference.
Tankie fucks infest lemmyml world news instance
Avoid social media news at all costs.
i have seen few, but none had interaction with me.
Same. I’ve seen only a few, but thankfully no one’s been a douche to me (yet? Pls don’t start lol). I’d imagine there are tons I haven’t seen yet. When people moved from reddit, it wasn’t exclusively just the good parts that came over. In my experience, though, it’s a lot less than in reddit.
no one’s been a douche to me (yet? Pls don’t start lol).
too bad, go to hell 😈
just kidding, happy to hear you’re having a good experience!
It’s not really surprising people are having problems with people on lemmy. For the first time in at least a decade we are in the Wild Wild West of a part of the internet. Things haven’t normalized themselves yet so shit is weird and sometimes unpleasant.
There’s this one commie user who I always end up getting into an argument with. I don’t mind though because they actually seem to be intelligent and I like to hear what they have to say.
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Haha, those are the best kinds of arguments.
Nah so far so good. But I haven’t seen any topic warranting it. Well, not that warranting or not was the reason for it on Reddit, some people are just out to shittalk.
This place is the most elitist/arrogant place i seen, even worse than reddit. Especially it could be seen during recent discussion about threads/facebook.
Yes, I discussed with an andrew tate fan that asked “why do people get angry when I don’t respect pronouns of trans people” or something to that effect, a real shit stain but I think he got banned after a few hours
2 idiots got into a “u.no u” fight on one of my threads that escalated into them brigading each other. Even the block feature didn’t work for a while.
So far so good, I see less toxicity than on big social media. I guess there are not enough people yet, I see mostly enthusiasts who are excited that they’re building something new. Perhaps because of that the probability of seeing or getting some unpleasant comments is lower. But I’m also quite picky in what posts I read, something related to Elon Musk or Threads doesn’t interest me.
I’ve seen a few people, here and there, trying to test the limits and finding very quickly that they’re not going to get very far.
Haha, I think that seems like a common pattern.
