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When I first started using Lemmy it seemed like such a nice place with interesting discussions. It seemed like the first group of people to join after the app exodus were being quite careful to be respectful of the existing culture.

Now, it seems as though the culture from Reddit has completely replaced it. Toxicity and all. I will say I do follow a lot of communities from a wide range of instances so it's clearly not everywhere.

Am I the only one who's feeling like we've just stormed in and bulldozed Lemmy?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 208 points 1 year ago (29 children)

I came to Lemmy from reddit and I find it an incredibly nice place to be, full of polite discussions and fun posts. I haven't seen any of what you're saying.

[โ€“] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

When the rightwing communities started getting defederated, their users started making alts on the main instances.

Then you've got lemmy.grad which I still have trouble believing aren't just all trolls.

I've never seen a logical comment from any of them. And they agree with the rightwingers waaaaay to often for it be a coincidence.

Like, there was a thread the other day filled with people saying Islam is a violent religion and no other religion encourages violence. And all 1.7 billion Muslims support terrorist extremists.

Maybe because China and Russia have also been oppressing them for centuries so lemmy.grad has to act like that's the right move?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

People I disagree with all around me!! Oh the horror!!

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