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Fear of communication gone after switching to lemmy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, I hope it's ok to post something like this here. I just wanted to say thanks for the people here^^ A long time ago I joined Reddit and tried to post, comment and communicate about stuff I liked. Only now I noticed how much I became a lurker over the time because of the negativity at Reddit. Snappy comments, no real feedback but hate, sometimes even borderline insults... After nuking and deleting my Reddit account and switching to lemmy I noticed how much I missed it. People here are way more friendly and communicate politely. At least for now... Posting is fun again, all thanks to you all^^ That's my two cents. Thanks for reading. Love you all, keep safe. Cheers

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember there was a specific thread in /r/darktide that I commented on and, while I will admit that the overall topic was potentially volatile given the community - or at least possibly against the collective hivemind of 'tide players - the negativity I got in that thread continually baffled me. I'd attempt to explain and re-explain over and over again and every time it was met with this..."wall" of almost.../hatred/ that I just couldn't wrap my mind around.

One guy I swear felt like he was legitimately getting off on the hatred he was spewing - to the extent that a whole other poster commented on how messed up his responses were.

I eventually /think/ I figured out people were latching on to like a single thing I'd said in my multiple paragraphs of responses but...yeah. It was like people were only looking for that one little bone they could hang on to to be as negative and visceral as possible. It legit took me aback. And I'm only slowly beginning to realize I /don't/ feel that over here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly the same thing happened to me over at r/idiotsincars.

Normally, everyone there criticizes any driver who makes even a small mistake, but when I commented that the "victim driver" was speeding themselves to block someone illegally passing him, they just fell over me, ripped parts of my comments out of context and downvoted me into oblivion. They even accused me of having some kind of agenda just because I wrongly assumed the signs were showing km/h, like the dashcam, and not mph. He was briefly doing 95 km/h in a 40 mph zone. I argued it doesn't matter if it's 40 km/h or 65 km/h at that point.

I deleted all my comments and unsubscribed from that sub instantly, not a big deal. But from then on, I was so much more hesitant commenting anything. That was almost a year ago and I'm still shocked at what random hate and insinuations can do to you.

Let's hope something like that doesn't spill over here.