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I don't have an answer for you, OP. I will say that Lemmy is the angriest social media platform I have ever been on. I have never seen so many angry people who will actually stalk people (across mulitple posts) they disagree with, as I have seen on Lemmy. I've seen people here advocate for murder and torture of people and/or politicians they don't agree with. It’s crazy!
Just want to say I am dealing with this too. I had one guy yesterday reply to 10 separate posts of mine because of one thing I said in one thread they didn't like. I blocked them, but it is insane behavior.
These replies were no legit either, they were just slinging insults and character assassination and telling me how stupid and evil I was for saying something they disagreed with.
It's recent for me, this kind of nonsense has only been happening recently. a year ago it never did.
Oh, spend time on Reddit.
I was there almost 15 years and it is mind-meltingly toxic compared to lemmy.
Now I'm on the lemmy.zip instance and tend to lean towards more tech ended stuff, so maybe that's the difference..
This site is light-years nicer than Reddit's been since about 2018.
I think it's the lack of rage-bots here, that's the ticket..
My experience of reddit wasn't toxic until '22 or so. The first ten years I used it was mostly chill and fun, with the occasionally dramatic event that I had no personal stake in. I mostly was in my local city subreddit and hobby subreddits and a few reading ones.
But around '22 or so, for me at least, i started getting reported and banned regularly for sexism, racism, and violence. i think because I am not 'woke' and the overton window shifted to the point where my views were considered evil or something.
But since I'm an economic progressive and not a social engineering erase gender progressive, I'm a bad person now or something. I also committed the sin of having an outdoor cat and pointing out racial/sexist attacks on my local mayor.
And FWIW this type of crazy has bled over into the real world for me. Extremist rhetoric invaded several activity groups I enjoy IRL. Like, I don't want to go to a book club and get lectured how I am evil for not buying/ the 'right' books, esp when I take most of my books from the library and most of the stuff I read is 100+ years old.
And yet it's fristratingly addictive at the same time.
Sometimes I have to go back to ask a question on r/skyrim mods and I always make the mistake of doing a bit of scrolling. Thankfully I always catch myself 20-30 minutes in, but that's still time out of my day that I don't consoder well spent.
Lemmy has no algorithm to feed that addiction, and I really appreciate it
It should be noted that a very huge chunk of the userbase here are chronically online far left types who were banned from Reddit for being too extreme and toxic. Those same people came over here and brought the same problems that got them banned on other platforms here. Lemmy's is basically a cesspool of the Internets worst leftists.
That being said, I would say something like 40% of Lemmy's userbase is here for tech, privacy, and memes. If you filter out most of the politics, this site still has a big enough userbase to have an active and enjoyable experience.
Great points. I've seen people on here say that reddit is too conservative for them. Ok, if they think reddit is conservative, yeah, they are freaking extreme. So I think you make really good points!
I would say 95%.
What instances have you seen that on? Definitely should mention it/report it to those in charge of those instances and if they refuse to address it at least block those instances or if large enough of a problem discuss defederating the instance from your own.
That said, calling for people who commit illegal acts or crimes against humanity to be charged with crimes is different than calling for someone to have their nails ripped off and partially drown repeatedly.
I did report, and did block. And I got harrassed for reporting. But all good, after blocking and ignoring, I have moved on.
It is as angry as any other platform