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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?

bhamlin ,

You’re aggressive!

unreasonabro ,

NO YOU

fight me in my driveway

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Well there’s only a few hundred people commenting and a lot of initial transfers have stopped using the site because it only caters to extremist views. Hell even I’m about to just stop and use Tildes exclusively.

Personally I’ve never seen it the way everyone claims, from day one this place seemed to just be the worst of reddit, but who knows.

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

TropicalDingdong ,

Sounds like fighting words…

iAvicenna , (edited )
@iAvicenna@lemmy.world avatar

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.

tcrash ,

It’s becoming the new reddit

dylanTheDeveloper ,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Definitely has gotten worse. I even resorted to blocking users who do nothing but antagonize others

spaduf ,

Lol that is 100% the intended functionality of blocking

tcrash ,

Ok

dylanTheDeveloper ,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

I mean awhile ago it was just normal arguments but it’s ramped up to the point now where people are being racist, transphobic or saying they’re gonna find them irl and gun them down which is something I don’t want to see.

ridethisbike ,

Well I hope you reported them, as well

clearleaf ,

Not just the comments. It used to be page 4 or 5 where the hate/rage content would start appearing in the top posts. But it’s been creeping up, and now even page 1 looks pretty bad sometimes. I bet even Americans are starting to feel alienated if they’re not perpetually angry.

Porokoro ,

This place has always been a shithole. It has been months since I’ve been on here and this place is still as mind numbingly stupid as ever. The userbase is 40% brain dead Marxists who are vile and hostile, 30% insufferable tech bros who spam the same posts and articles day after day, and 30% annoying Redditors that made Reddit annoying who decided to migrate over.

There was a brief period of time over last summer when the Reddit meltdown was still fresh where this place saw a surge of normal people posting normal content, but the newness of this site faded and most people went back to reddit where is actual content, thus leaving the extremists and spammers who would’ve been banned on there anyway.

gapbetweenus ,

Found the guy responsible.

Porokoro ,

What I said is true

gapbetweenus ,

Yeah, you are definitely contributing to the negativity. That is also true.

Porokoro ,

Okay, cry about it

gapbetweenus ,

Thanks, for making my point for me.

Porokoro ,

You’re welcome

gapbetweenus ,

See, not so difficult to be a good, polite boy. Have a treat.

hark ,
@hark@lemmy.world avatar

Part of it is the paranoia about what people perceive as trolls or shills, combined with thinking that their opinions are a matter of life and death. I’ve seen people here talk about the old internet and I think what helped back then were communities were generally smaller, more tight-knit, and there was a greater separation between the internet and “real life”. I can’t fault people for being paranoid when many governments and corporations have added the internet as a platform where messaging must be controlled.

There have been media works that point out that the internet, although allowing people to connect from all the way around the world, paradoxically isolates us. This is something we can at least partially mitigate by giving others the benefit of the doubt and not be so quick to dismiss and antagonize. While it is tough to respond kindly to someone who insults you, sometimes doing so can have a disarming effect on them.

fidodo ,

Lemmy is so much smaller than other networks I really doubt there are many shills here.

uSpetzWon ,

I think it was about my very first time on Lemmy when I saw someone seriously suggesting killing the rich. No joke but in all seriousness saying that we should.

In 10+ years of Reddit I don’t think I never saw a post like that.

I guess it fits nicely with all the pro Hamas propaganda here.

davel ,
@davel@lemmy.ml avatar

porky-scared

palestine-heart

VanHalbgott ,

I feel you: someone was trolling me for what I said about Busuu because I used the words ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ as a Christian.

PrincessLeiasCat ,

Yeah, I’ve been blocking a lot more than I used to.

Omega_Haxors ,

Oh dear day three and this thread is still going and doubling in size.

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

Now you’ve made an enemy for life, buddy.

Hestia ,

The enemy of my enemy… also enemy.

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