A symptom of rising tensions around the world in recent months, and this platform already being a political space.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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I've said it before, Lemmy is a fickle place.
I expect it will get better with time as we get more users.
Many will tell you this is normal and just how the internet is.
How depressing.
When they are insulting should mean that they have no arguments... maybe they have issues on their life. Who knows, but it's a waste of time to reply to them.
Yeah I've given this place an honest try but people are so quick to downvote, it's not exactly encouraging me to actively post here
Also I notice the same 10 assholes in every thread
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Sounds like fighting words..
Yes. Yes you are.
This vibe has been here from the start. But it was kept at bay by defederating left and right from "troublemakers".
Problem is actual troublemakers don't care where they are. All they have to do is make a new account and keep on troubling.
So all the isolation managed to do is slow down the conflict, make it less visible. And it worked too.
Yet you can't stop the fighting, not for long anyway.
We have to fight, have to make drama. Peaceful living is too boring all the time.
I haven't really noted a shift, but there's always a few folks in a given place, real or virtual, that are absolutely unwilling to take a nuanced view. My way or the highway and all that. Hard to have a historical view though when a major part of the users have all come on board in the last 7-8 months, me included.
Depends on the threads you discuss i guess, I find it pretty chill
Simply a side effect of successful user growth without adequate growth in moderation of the user base. Same thing has happened on every forum since the first BBS
every time I see a full page meme in the middle of a comments thread I want to punch a hole right through its face
I kinda started getting that feeling too but I thought that was because I started getting more involved in discussions and political ones more. Before it was mainly quick comments for me. Anyways if someone starts to insult or deliberately distort what I am saying by cherry picking combinations of words from my comments, I put on my "three words at most troll hat" and the discussion dies pretty quickly. No point in writing a paragraph for a comment if the other person is just gonna take one word out of it and bash the rest with it.