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I'm not sure why, but there are a lot of Lemmy users who have a hard time picking up on sarcasm
Neurodivergent attribute. In a lot of ways it's a good thing, though, because it's less socially acceptable to post hate speech and controversial jokes here as a result of nobody assuming satire.
It was comparative statement to places like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, etc.
It's about the same as on Reddit though.
Not from my experience, but I've never been to the outer edges of fediverse.
Here... on the sarcasm and satire community.
You spend the last 7 years dealing with Trump as President and then the shit show after...
At some point you get PTSD from going "oh this is a joke"... Then finding out he really said or did it, AND people still love him.