• guts@lemmy.ml
      51·
      1 year ago

      I think it depends on the instance, I find lots of vitriol comments on lemmy.world.

      • Roundcat@kbin.social
        21·
        1 year ago

        Literally had someone tell me, unless the lemmy police were actively trying to take my app away, I have no right to complain about the elitism, lol.

  • Jim@lemm.ee
    13·
    1 year ago

    What the fuck did you just fucking type about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at MIT, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids with Anonymous, and I have over 300 confirmed DDoSes. I am trained in online trolling and I’m the top hacker in the entire world. You are nothing to me but just another virus host. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on the Internet, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with typing that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we chat over Lemmy I am tracing your IP with my damn bare hands so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your computer. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can hack into your files in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in hacking, but I have access to the entire arsenal of every piece of malware ever created and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the world wide web, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking fingers. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit code all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

  • original_ish_name@lemm.ee
    141·
    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
      63·
      1 year ago

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

      • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
        22·
        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.

        • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one
          21·
          1 year ago

          Blocking their community doesn’t keep them out of the comment sections else where.

          Connect has an option to block comments from blocked instances.

  • NinjaJoey209@lemmy.ca
    8·
    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.

    • radix@lemm.ee
      21·
      1 year ago

      That’s really sweet. As someone younger I never really saw that online. Maybe we can bring it back.

  • ScrivenerX@lemm.ee
    81·
    1 year ago

    I think the difference is that it’s possible to actually engage with the community on Lemmy.

    On Reddit if I see something I have a story or thought on there are already 5000+ comments. The only people responding to me are trolls and those with nothing to do but look for a fight.

    On lemmy there might be 50 comments in 10 threads. Conversation can actually happen.

    It’s the difference between chatting at a party and shouting at a concert.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      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.

  • Rachelhazideas@lemm.ee
    41·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile there are girl boring guy quirky memes all over this community. Casual sexism is what’s wholesome.

  • PatFusty@lemm.ee
    31·
    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.