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Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months?

I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

ripcord ,
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Maybe, but you’re still awesome.

Ghostalmedia OP ,
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Awe shucks. Thanks. Right back at ya.

CitizenKong ,

A lot of people are having a hard time right now. Try to be the change you want to see and react kindly and rationally would be my advice.

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    psud ,

    I’m over this meme, mate

    dylanTheDeveloper ,
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    I’m not your mate buddah

    zelifcam ,

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    meekah ,
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    I think this post is looking to have a (real) conversation. Why do you think that’s not the case?

    zelifcam ,

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    Ashtear ,

    Even if this was the case, not assuming good faith is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

    Conversation doesn’t have to be that way.

    SorteKanin ,
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    I honestly don’t feel much has changed. There was perhaps a bit of a “new” feeling in the start and some excitement about the project, but I don’t think people have gotten more aggressive or anything.

    But I think all this probably depends what circles you hang out in. Probably also depends on what instances you federate with.

    corsicanguppy ,

    People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor.

    Careful. I’ll correct my neighbour’s spelling, too . :-)

    Buelldozer ,
    @Buelldozer@lemmy.today avatar

    You mean comments like this one?

    feddit.nl/comment/6215624

    Yeah, it’s getting worse.

    starman2112 ,
    @starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

    My god. I sit here couching my thinly veiled calls for civil disobedience in “in minecraft” and “this is satire,” and here’s someone openly calling for a murder. Maybe next time I want to make a joke about billboard burning being a fun pastime for the whole family, I won’t be as afraid of getting a visit from the fun police

    Kolrami ,

    And it’s upvoted

    HerrBeter ,

    I don’t think people thought about it too much. But it shouldn’t be allowed, even if it’s a joke

    exocrinous ,

    You can just say whatever you want on the internet. Watch this:

    People who eat meat are murderers and deserve to be killed. It’ll reduce the number of murders overall.

    See? It’s easy.

    fosforus ,

    Holy shit.

    “Work reform” my ass. It’s just a facade for full-blown communist revolution, which in my humble opinion is just a facade for “let’s break everything and replace it with something worse”.

    TORFdot0 ,

    I think there are more bummer world events happening like the Israel Hamas war and bummer late stage capitalism in general which leads to more inflammatory and charged discourse, compared to just after the Reddit exodus when we were united against Reddit.

    Lemmy in general isn’t different from other social media in that it isn’t great for political discourse. Without the human connection there is less incentive to consider the experience and viewpoints of others when you can just downvote and read a hundred that agree with you

    dessalines ,

    We can absolutely do better than reddit on this one. If someone is breaking rule 2 (be respectful), report that comment and we’ll get to it as soon as we can.

    Pratai ,

    The problem is, most of the pro-socialist posts don’t get removed when I report them for rule 2. I’m certain there’s a bias here.

    Urist ,
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    Maybe you should take care to follow said rule yourself? Looking through your recent comments in this thread it seems more to me that you are going in hard with bad takes and get hurt from getting dunked at. The question is really: Do you consider yourself respectful when you use ignorance to spite leftists?

    davel , (edited )
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    For the first time in a liberal’s life, your viewpoints are being the least bit challenged. Must be awful, we socialists can’t imagine what you’re going through.

    FiskFisk33 ,

    Being pro something you are against does not break the “be respectful” rule.

    You really shouldn’t go around trying to silence people with different opinions than you.

    TokenBoomer ,

    You’re awesome btw.

    dessalines ,

    o7

    dylanTheDeveloper ,
    @dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

    Are reports anonymous? I don’t want to report a user that breaks rules only for the offending user to be friends with an admin and get me kicked from a community as payback

    Hubi ,

    No, the mods of the community can see who sent the report.

    WanderingVentra ,

    That can be a good thing, too, to find out if someone is abusing the report feature, as was common on Reddit when people didn’t like someone’s comment.

    dessalines ,

    Reports are not anonymous, but they also aren’t public. Only visible to admins and mods of that community.

    It’s a tradeoff, anonymous report abuse was a big problem on reddit that I didn’t want to replicate here. If the admins or mods aren’t trustworthy on your server, you should pry move to another one.

    moosetwin ,
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    It’s definitely gotten worse, especially the political circlejerk, jeez.

    FiskFisk33 ,

    with the american elections coming up, tensions are rising. Quite predictably so, really

    schizoidman ,

    I feel the mainstream lemmy instances have attracted the reddit mob mentality where any deviation from the groupthink is treated as radicals or bots.

    Pratai ,

    Only it’s pro socialism.

    HerrBeter ,

    That’s lemmygrad

    exocrinous ,

    That’s because capitalism is an extreme right wing idea

    haui_lemmy ,

    I feel like its hit and miss with lemmy. Depending on the topic, your way of thinking and the community, you can either get folks to be agreeable and helpful or get dogpiled on, called names and other childish things.

    The internet is still a place where being a jerk has no major consequences so folks may let loose ok someone they deem lesser than themselves, dumb or plain offensive.

    IRL this doesn’t break through as much if you‘re no longer in school as most workplaces at least have some restrictions against bullying or mobbing and a lot of peeps have good lawyers these days.

    So, from someone who polarizes since being born (not by choice): it’s just circumstances imo.

    AgentGrimstone ,

    Only when I browse All

    negativeyoda ,

    Strap in. It’s an election year

    NigelFrobisher ,

    Every year is an election year somewhere.

    vulgarcynic ,
    @vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works avatar

    Yeah but this is an AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR!!!

    that’s like the super bowl of elections

    Sent from my freedom phone motherfucker

    nitefox ,

    What the fuck is a superbowl

    Fur_Fox_Sheikh ,

    A really nice owl

    nitefox ,

    Can I pet it?

    dumpsterlid ,

    Only if you twist your hand all the way around like an owls head before you pet it, otherwise the owl won’t recognize it as a friendly entity and will bite.

    vulgarcynic ,
    @vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works avatar

    You mean a brave patriotic eagle! America’s awesome upgrade to the bog standard owl.

    dylanTheDeveloper ,
    @dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

    Yep it’s time for the entire online world to suffer for 3 months

    WanderingVentra ,

    3 months? Ha! Try a whole year. American election season, baby!!!

    RememberTheApollo_ ,

    Dunno. I still think Lemmy is better by quite a bit. I still participate I reddit occasionally, and I think it’s become far less engaging as a place of discussion. It’s just the same old reposts and tired old comments over and over. It’s rarer to find insightful comment chains.

    Lemmy is starting to attract some of the Reddit tropes. Dumb sex questions in asklemmy or any of the other retreads that we’ve all seen a score of times. But as far as discussions go, if one can get into one, they’re good.

    nutsack ,

    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

    replicat ,

    Yeah tbh image embeds were a mistake IMO.

    force ,

    i love them personally, it was annoying as fuck not having them on reddit

    HerrBeter ,

    Maybe a size adjuster is needed

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