• bitsplease@lemmy.ml
      91·
      11 months 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

    • potopato@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      Or the announcement of lemmy.world admins preemptively defederating from Hexbear.

      Or the announcement of lemmy.world admins NOT preemptively defederating from Threads.

      Or when there’s politics involved.

  • Ethalia@feddit.ch
    271·
    11 months 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.

  • original_ish_name@lemm.ee
    181·
    11 months 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·
      11 months ago

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

      • Fazoo@lemmy.ml
        22·
        11 months 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·
          11 months 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.

  • Jim@lemm.ee
    161·
    11 months 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.

    • Knusper@feddit.de
      51·
      11 months 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…

  • ScrivenerX@lemm.ee
    111·
    11 months 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.

  • NinjaJoey209
    9·
    11 months 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·
      11 months ago

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

  • Archlinuxforever@lemmy.3cm.us
    145·
    11 months 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.

      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
        31·
        11 months ago

        And double bonus points with sprinkles on top of it was a bot or shill pretending to be an American.

          • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
            42·
            11 months 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
      61·
      11 months 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.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      11 months 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.