I replied to someone saying that the USSR defeated the Nazis saying that it was a group effort. Got into an argument and called a Nazi repeatedly because "I was mad that the USSR defeated the Nazis and hated them for it" which is ridiculous. This isn't the first time that's happened on Lemmy. What's up with that?

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[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

My goodness. LW seemed like a decent community about two years ago. I stopped lurking there when mods kind of looked away from the xenophobia, particularly against south asians. It has turned to a total cesspool now. I can't find a shred of compassion or kindness in this thread. Every one of them just focused on 'owning' the mls.

And why post to this community instead of PTB? Does this post even qualify as "open-ended, thought provoking question"?

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago*

It was kind of predictable.

LW is where all the redditeurs first went when they fled Reddit, and then over time people slowly learned how federation worked and started leaving to join other instances. This kind of "distilled" the user base into the most Reddit-y users who all stayed behind.

Eventually, this leads to a tipping point, because even the people who didn't really care about leaving two years ago have been forced out by how intolerably Reddit-y the instance has become. It's now highly concentrated and smug Reddit syrup.

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