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Lol people are toxic everywhere.
Fuck you man
Suck MY wang!
Every time we get a wave of fresh influx, it seems to bring a fair number of upset people here. I’m not particularly surprised, they’re coming from a less-pleasant environment just in general.
People do seem to settle down a little bit after they get some time to unwind from that all, though.
Honestly, I’ve found this place to be a lot more toxic than Reddit, especially when it comes to tech.
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Absolutely. I just recently got roasted for posting a guide to updating the BIOS on certain laptops in the Linux forums.
Was expecting a small number of comments, maybe a couple of questions or “thanks”; nope.
“OP IS RETARDED THATS NOT HOW YOU DO IT!!!” Neckbeards gonna neck.
Nobody was toxic against you in all 3 posts you crossposted. Some were saying that it is confusing, a harder way to do it or that it didn’t work.
Really?
https://lemmy.world/comment/6074010
https://sopuli.xyz/comment/5444087
https://lemm.ee/comment/7385146
The more important question is why were you trying to gaslight me? Does it help with your own insecurities?
I don’t really see any toxicity here.
Take the last link for example, where exactly is the toxicity?
Ok. I don’t see any toxicity here.
Ahh I see you’re a mod. Of multiple communities. It takes a “special” kind of person to want to be an internet hall monitor, let alone try and collect as many sub’s as they can.
Most people understand tone in writing.
You don’t.
The communities I frequented in Reddit were pretty positive. I see more snarky comments on Lemmy, but I’m posting more here, so maybe I’m just getting more interactions.
Somewhat. I’ll use myself as an example.
When I first came to Lemmy, I was more defensive than I realized. I had gotten used to aggressive, obnoxious behavior. Soon, I noticed that wasn’t an accepted norm here. It only took a couple days to realize, but I needed a few weeks to actually get out of the habit. In those early days, I’m sure I brought some toxicity with me.
Now, though, I don’t create, feed, or encourage toxic comments. I just assume it’s an honest mistake, poor choice of words, or someone whose primary language isn’t English. If I choose to reply, I’m friendly, and give them the benefit of the doubt. If a comment seems deliberately rude or trolling, I don’t engage at all.
Also, how nice is it to be able to give (or get) the benefit of the doubt?!? You can make a spelling error without getting three or four pedantic screeds! I didn’t realize how much I missed basic civility until I rediscovered it here!
Sounds like you’re in a much healthier mindset now! And I think that mindset spreads just as virally as toxicity, both online and in real life.
Kudos on the introspection and growth, my friend
I don’t know if I’ve seen more toxicity per se, but I definitely have seen more negativity recently. I remember when I first got here during the reddit protest stuff, everyone was so nice and it felt very refreshing compared to reddit. Now I don’t get that feeling. There are still plenty of nice people, but there’s just a lot of bitterness regarding the state of the internet right now.
As well there should be. Enshittification is here to stay it seems.
Nice people are still around, but in smaller communities
I thought so until I went back to reddit and saw the difference. Just today there was a post on PublicFreakout about Just Stop Oil sitting in front of a bus and over 300 comments wishing the bus driver would have ran over the protestors and killed them. It was actually insane.
A few weeks ago I saw a reddit thread where the general consensus was that microtransactions were ok and even good. How it has changed from its heyday.
Actually had a conversation the other day on Lemmy with another user where we disagreed on a topic.
We did not attack each other or were agressive. So I’ll take that as a win
The toxicity here is rather different than what i’ve experience in Reddit, the kind that make me quit it just like that. It’s just too many kids there.
I agree, people around here seem more mature on the whole. In my last year of Reddit, not only was I getting tired of the comment reposting bots, the teenagers subreddit seemed to permeate throughout the rest of the site more.
This place feels too political sometimes. I’m alright with being political, but just with the right amount.
To be fair, choosing Lemmy over Reddit is absolutely a political choice, hence people here are going to be more politically-minded.
Maybe? I definitely interact with more users lately who seem unable to make a point without being a condescending ass hat at the same time. Couldn’t say for sure if they’re coming over from Reddit, though.
Not really. I’ve seen a lot arguments on here actually resolve amicably instead just degrading into personal attacks. Also seen people take criticism
Yeah, I particularly remember seeing two people go back and forth, and you’d have to click “Show further thread” like 6 times before one of them just quit it.
I tend to genuinely feel that the users here are more mature and more open minded.
On reddit 😡
Here on Lemmy 🤤
No, but certainly seems that Reddit has turned into a cesspool of right wing ideology.
I’ve never see that much toxicity on Reddit to begin with. Most of us came due to Spez.
Reddit is a huge site, depends on what subreddits you visited. The news and politics subreddits could be particularly toxic. Some of the “men vs women” themed subreddits were bad too.
I mean, the toxicity wasn’t a reddit thing, it was the users. Reddit was big, so many were there. Some of those users moved. So it’s here on lemmy too now.
