Have you had any bad experiences with people on Lemmy?

I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I “surprisingly haven’t found any bigotry.”

I’m wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it’s rare, my guess is that even though it’s decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I’m guessing it’s easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.

MomoTimeToDie,

Plenty, since the overwhelming majority of it is a massive leftist circle jerk that isn’t fond of people dissenting.

lingh0e,

You are confused. What you are doing isn’t “dissenting” so much as it’s spouting absolute bullocks. You are doing the online equivalent of smearing your shit on the walls because you once heard someone else say that’s a valid form of expression.

You keep posting the same ignorant bullshit over and over again, even after people explain just how ignorant your logic really is.

You can only claim “leftist brigading” when you are able to respond to your critics with verifiable facts to support your position. Until then, you are talking absolute bullshit.

MomoTimeToDie,

Lmao talk about verifiable facts when you losers aren’t just spouting whatever unhinged garbage your propaganda networks feed you

Zippy,

Personally I prefer a bit of conflict as it encourages discussion and alternate opinions. The discussions are pretty short when everyone agrees.

myrrh,

Jeez, lots of comments to look through! I’ll definitely take a peek some more but a pattern that I’ve noticed from the few comments I’ve skimmed through is that it seems like a lot of toxic people do show up, it’s just that individual instances are good at removing them.

I also haven’t been on Lemmy as much as I was on Reddit before I left, and I’m on a fairly small instance, so I guess that explains the lack of bigotry in my feed haha.

electrogamerman,

I received a couple of “fucking racist” from a person because I said in a post that immigration to rich countries should be controlled i.e. borders cannot just be opened and let everyone move anywhere, or else their economy and social situation could be affected

gunnm,

You will find this type of people everywhere on social media.

I use Tildes and is this kind of place people circle jerk how smart and insightful they are using comments. One user had this long threaded comments and I just disagree at the end, he was so pissed. Second time it was with a Redditor coming with the same toxic echo chamber bs bringing to Tildes, my conclusion many redditors are toxic users that will spoil anywhere.

Don’t get me started with Hacker News.

myrrh,

Yeah, seems to be quite comment :/ People online be like that, guess that’s just how it is

Im28xwa,

2nd day here so far so good

ManosTheHandsOfFate,
@ManosTheHandsOfFate@lemmy.world avatar

Go to heck dirtwad!

Im28xwa,

Bruh

Fizz,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

There’s this one commie user who I always end up getting into an argument with. I don’t mind though because they actually seem to be intelligent and I like to hear what they have to say.

intensely_human,

Please tell me it’s me

myrrh,

Haha, those are the best kinds of arguments.

makanimike, (edited )

do birds fly? do ducks duck?

Anoril,

This place is the most elitist/arrogant place i seen, even worse than reddit. Especially it could be seen during recent discussion about threads/facebook.

Antimutt,
@Antimutt@lemmy.world avatar

Deleting the thread out from under you is usually bad behaviour, but in the one instance it happened to me the chap was entirely right to do so - he’d left his exif location data in the image. Still, the hedgehog pic was good enough to be posted again, which I did.

xuxebiko,

2 idiots got into a "u.no u" fight on one of my threads that escalated into them brigading each other. Even the block feature didn't work for a while.

fsxylo,

Political stuff is as enflamed as ever. I’ll take the beans over that any day.

BrooklynMan,
@BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve seen a few people, here and there, trying to test the limits and finding very quickly that they’re not going to get very far.

myrrh,

Haha, I think that seems like a common pattern.

AlternateRoute,

If you don’t hate Twitter, Reddit, Threads you must love them and are the enemy.

Lots of us vs them hate on this platform like many others. You arnt allowed to have a nuanced opinion or conversation about some things.

DrQuint,

Nah so far so good. But I haven’t seen any topic warranting it. Well, not that warranting or not was the reason for it on Reddit, some people are just out to shittalk.

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