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...sometimes it does feel like this.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

You'll find that anywhere. Not just on the Internet, either. Literally, everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

High school never ends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

True, but Reddit had the right conditions for toxicity to grow and begin to run rampant. Lemmy, with its decentralized nature, should limit the spread of any toxic communities.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I dont think it will limmits it at all it will spread so u end uo wirh multiple communities for the same thibg with different flavours of toxicity. We already have that with world news ie the .ml flavour of toxicity vs the other instances with differing flavours

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The .ml situation predates the whole reddit thing, no?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You should check out Facebook, Twitter, IRC, NextDoor, 4chan, 9gag, or any other Internet forum (including comment sections of news articles). Reddit does not hold exclusive rights to any “right conditions for toxicity to grow”.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, there's lots of places with rampant toxicity. I was just comparing reddit and lemmy, and I consider the Federated nature of lemmy to help prevent (not necessarily stop) toxicity from growing.

I'm not an expert on this whole Federated thing, but to me, it sounds like if one community is having problems with another, they can just disassociate and not have to deal with it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think the difficulty will be the slippery and nebulous definition of "toxic"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's more easily expressed when people don't have to directly face the sensitivity of the other humans. For example, from inside a car, in an online competitive game or an online forum.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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