• Ethalia@feddit.ch
    9·
    1 year ago

    Idk man… I’ve seen some truly passive aggressive comments sometimes. To the point where one could say ‘I don’t like your tone buddy’. Let’s not glorify and patronize communities one over the other.

    • bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, there’s plenty of other examples of toxicity, but the Sync discussions are the easiest to point to example.

      Ultimately, Lemmy has most of the same issues with condescension, toxicity, and pointless argument as reddit did

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, on Reddit, especially in bigger communities, if you admitted you were wrong about something (or not at least technically correct in some way), you’d get downvoted and had asshats commenting how dumb you are, so they’d get upvoted for that.

      Here, there’s less people to dunk on you, and I imagine, also just fewer kids, who need the validation from dunking and aren’t yet as self-reflected…

  • original_ish_name@lemm.ee
    6·
    1 year ago

    People on lemmy are taking the blue pill and thinking that the fediverse is wholesome, the fediverse is many things (mostly positive) but saying that we’ve got no assholes is a lie (OP did say that “the whole fediverse is wholesome ❤”)

    • Cleverdawny@lemm.ee
      41·
      1 year ago

      I just blocked Lemmygrad and hexbear and haven’t had any issues at all with jerks since

      • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        That was definitely a good start, based on my own experience. Just keep an eye out for the popular degenerates from there and be ready to block them as well. Blocking their community doesn’t keep them out of the comment sections else where. Especially politics.

  • Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us
    72·
    1 year ago

    I just joined Lemmy and I have already seen a comment from a tankie telling all Americans to “rot and die” in this same community. So no, it’s not all wholesome.

          • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            1 year ago

            Probably. It’s one of the instances dedicated to Marxist-Leninists. I block some communities there due to not wanting to deal with apologia for what I see as crimes against humanity but, there are also meme communities, etc. Also, despite significant differences, the user interactions that I’ve had have been much less vitriolic than other parts of the Internet.

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      If it helps, it only ever seems to be the tankies, which are progressively becoming the minority. I’m sure more dicks will show up in future waves, maybe, but…I’m kinda seeing the point of just the lowest possible entry hurdles.

      Actually, hold on, tumblr was talking about ActivityPub a few months ago, so if they ever actually do that and do it functionally, that will change the culture pretty substantially. Much more weeb/sociopolitical. I’m happily fucking out of the politics here by choice.

      • Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, anyone who makes a comment similar to that I always assume they’re a tankie. They are extremely easy to identify based on their comments.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same. Almost every single argument ends with personal insults. At least on reddit people tried to avoid those because karma was such a big deal. Here nobody cares so they shit on each other whenever they disagree.

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

    There are fewer kids and fewer people on the right on this platform. So anyone near the center gets treated like dog water. You just dont see many.

  • NinjaJoey209@lemmy.ca
    4·
    1 year ago

    I saw a Lemmy user give ‘benefit of the doubt’ responses for seemingly curt comments, and then original commenter thanks them instead of feeling attacked. Bizarre to me. I feel like that happened on Reddit more often at some point, even for most non-specific communities, but I haven’t seen it since.