A symptom of rising tensions around the world in recent months, and this platform already being a political space.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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OMG, yes! I've been running into so many rude/toxic comments lately. For me it feels like this place is devolving into Reddit again.
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I've said it before, Lemmy is a fickle place.
I expect it will get better with time as we get more users.
Before it was toxic positivity. The veneer has broken down now that people aren't trying their best to bring over reddit refugees, and the ugly underneath is visible.
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Many will tell you this is normal and just how the internet is.
How depressing.
When they are insulting should mean that they have no arguments... maybe they have issues on their life. Who knows, but it's a waste of time to reply to them.
Sounds like fighting words..
Aggressive yes, and more people deliberately misinterpreting what you say just to feel smug. Also people that don't understand that a Lemmy comment can't have the exhaustive detail and context of a Wikipedia article, and they take any omission of such in a comment as ignorance by the op.
Yes. Yes you are.
This vibe has been here from the start. But it was kept at bay by defederating left and right from "troublemakers".
Problem is actual troublemakers don't care where they are. All they have to do is make a new account and keep on troubling.
So all the isolation managed to do is slow down the conflict, make it less visible. And it worked too.
Yet you can't stop the fighting, not for long anyway.
We have to fight, have to make drama. Peaceful living is too boring all the time.