Been seeing a lot of troll accounts, but over all nothing too extreme.
this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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A bit of toxicity around specific instances/communities but not really the type from reddit. Also it's easy enough to block those instances. People in general have been great on Lemmy.
Outside of one troll that was banned for spamming comments sections with videos that I hope I never see again, I don't know if I've used Lemmy, whether it be my account on the main instance or this account, enough since the Reddit protests to really see anything "toxic". I have noticed that there have been more times where I've felt like I didn't belong here but I think I've always kind of felt like this and it's just more noticeable because I use Lemmy more since I stopped using Reddit.
Edit: You do know that down voting me just proves my point, right?
I wouldn't say that it migrated. I would say engagement increased on Lemmy and, with it, so did the toxic behavior. There are a lot more bitch fights on here now, but that comes with the territory of more posts. Reddit did seem to encourage this type of behavior, though. While there are some Lemmy instances that do seem to encourage toxicity (I have a couple in mind), the majority seem to be affected by it without actively encouraging it. Toxic behavior is, generally, human nature, because humans are toxic creatures. Most people, however, don't default to toxicity; they need to be encouraged into it.
My perception of the sentiment expressed here is that people are disinterested in inauthentic expression, lack of empathy, or an unwillingness to entertain other people's ideas or opinions.
Mine is that is what people do on the Internet, and it's compounded by the anonymity the Internet provides. Doesn't really matter what platform.
Even in the public open side like Twitter, people just shout stupid one liners at each other, like there's some universe where people changed their mind about something because you called them stupid in the world's most creative way.
The more people you put together, the more colamity. Lemmy of just very new, so maybe the riffraff hasn't shown up yet?
Yeah absolutely. And there's toxicity that was already here, see hexbear and any other radical left communities.
Technically, Lemmy itself is a "radical left" platform. That was its purpose in creation.
Creating something collective to try to go against the capitalists is one thing, tankies are another
By tankie do you mean Stalinist or to the left of Joe Biden? Because that word has devolved in the past to the point where I've seen it encompass people like Jon Stewart or George Orwell
Stalinist. The usual suspects defending genocide and simping for China.