It's a human problem. Only way to avoid it is to not use social media. I'm about to hop off everything it is making me lose hope in my fellow humans seeing some of the comments I see. It's also baffling how genuinely stupid some people come across, or sometimes it's clear they just don't understand what the words they are reading are even conveying.

I have to assume half of Lemmy is people banned from reddit for being like this. Im worried they're slowly scaring away everyone else and its distilling the ecosystem into a toxic pit

It definitely depends on the community. I'm mostly noticing it in the meme communities. A high percentage of jokes in the memes that I see are at the expense of a group that I am a part of, and I guess I just don't really relate to the people here. So I just don't come back very often.

Have you not seen the Linux fanboys on Lemmy? I see a post every day at least about how Windows is terrible or how x browser is inferior to Firefox.