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Match made in hell (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 33 points 10 months ago (27 children)

I swear to god lemmy has the highest ratio of angsty purity testers I've ever seen.

I've never been any place online where people hate other people that match with them like 99% of the way so god damn much.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    It is something to behold as a new user.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    it's common in all leftist spaces.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    folks out there, who do these things performatively especially online to gain some social points or something

    I actually think that you thinking this is a problem, is a large part of the problem. People refuse to recognize that other people might just have higher or different standards than them, and think it must be in bad faith. This leads to people who generally agree being fizzled out by all the other people they feel are speaking in bad faith (and there are many that are trying to support non leftist opinions tbf), and leads to leftists ending up being unable to realize that they are allies even if they don't perfectly align. TBF its kinda hard to see someone shitting on you (as they think you're a baddie with the fizzled out feather light triggers), but we kinda have to try to figure out how to do that, because otherwise, being a shitty human being is just a winning formula when they have a much easier time forming alliances because they can base their entire identities around hating some people for no good reason.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Points are meaningless here mate what are you on about. These spaces are one of the few where you don’t need to worry about social points and can speak plainly. Which is why I can tell you that your defence reflex that urges you to attack the messenger instead of thinking about what was said has flipped.

    And veggies are worse. Premeditated Carnism. Always butting in with their irrelevant opinions on animal rights.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Just the ones that jump into threads about vegans and perpetuate their pish.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    But... that isnt what happened here

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yes it is, the person I responded to said 'It’s really easy to be in this type of relationship actually.' in a thread about a vegan dating a carnist.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    For real, I think it's due to the nature of this being an Indi alternative platform. It is filled with extremists and people who get kicked out of other places.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Remember, the first real big explosion in users came from when reddit restricted its API. So, by definition, a bunch of angsty users resistant to change and intolerant of opposing viewpoints.

    During that original exodus, people remarked how friendly and tolerant and how people were willing to have constructive debate here. In reality, they were all united under their intolerance and hate for reddit.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Reddit should be hated and not tolerated tho??

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for proving my point.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Your point is that people who left a platform because it made decisions they disagreed with don't like it anymore? Shocking

    Reddit is still the best place to go for a lot of niche communities you can't really find anywhere else. That doesn't change the fact that it has a lot of issues that stem from both the community culture there and the C-suite execs calling the shots, making it worse at every turn in pursuit of profit.

    You'll find I have similar opinions of most large social media companies. I just don't talk about them as much because they were never appealing to me in the first place. Reddit had its problems dating wayy back but I enjoyed it for what it offered. You gotta draw the line somewhere, and I drew mine at the API shenanigans

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Well, I am not fully in agreement there as I myself came here due to those restrictions but that is mostly because I primarily interact with reddit through boost and having it just suddenly get cut off was pretty shity. Not wanting to move platforms doesn't really come with the same assessment of the person as you are saying. This is on top of API restrictions being something annoying to me as a scientists so I'm happy to not bother much with reddit anymore.

    I think the issue is far more related to the other channels which pull in members. Lemmy users are probably more likely to be those who are either hobby enthusists in self hosting, people who are strong pro piracy supporters, people from political extremists groups (in particular leftists groups due to the history of the platform), or those from marginal communities. You also have the big group of people who were barred from other platforms, like the API restriction or the far worse group of people banned from reddit which people will post about proudly regardless of if that ban was reasonable or not.

    I like Lemmy a lot, but it's like any indi space, both filled with great unique things and things that make me want to travel the Australian outback without gas or water.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Believing that animals should have basic rights, at least some degree of sovereignty; and the dignity to not be systematically confined, in constant abuse and outright torture, forcibly bred, exploited and enslaved in every possible way, to have their byproducts extracted to the detriment of their own health, and finally to be slaughtered on a scale that puts every other human atrocity to shame - is not a fucking purity test, it's a god damn moral baseline.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Except the other person is most of the way with that viewpoint, hence me calling it a purity test.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    But they're really not. The harms and atrocities that come from dairy and eggs are arguably worse than meat itself, and the former industries drive the latter to some extent because it's not profitable to care for animals for the duration of their natural lifespan.

    Vegetarianism is neither ideologically or functionally different than any other form of animal commodification.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    The harms and atrocities that come from dairy and eggs are arguably worse than meat itself

    Certifiably cap, just from the scale of it all. Meat production has a non insignificant amount of environmental impact.

    Dairy does too, but meat, you need more animals to kill.

    and the former industries drive the latter to some extent

    This is exactly backwards

    Vegetarianism is neither ideologically or functionally different than any other form of animal commodification.

    This is so absurd on its face that I don't think you're reasonable enough to bother arguing with, and don't think anyone reading this will think you are, so I'd just be wasting my time.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t hate anyone I’m just blunt and don’t care about social norms.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Given that we are a social species, that sounds like a terrible way to get literally anything you want accomplished by anyone else.

    More than that, it absolutely sounds like you hate people given the vitriol you spat at that person who clearly agrees with you a majority of the way.

    You also, even if you don't care about social norms clearly understand the difference between not, for instance, participating in a silly tradition, and being unnecessarily and unhelpfully rude and aggressive.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    The veggie? I view them further away from vegan ideologically than the average person. It’s not an ethical stance it’s an aversion to flesh and/or trying to shift responsibility away from themselves.

    And it wasn’t vitriol I just said she views animals as products so no surprise she doesn’t see an issue?

    The silly tradition I don’t participate is in speaking to people like they’re too dumb to hear the truth. That’s how I learned.

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