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Actually everyone on Lemmy hates Firefox now because AI

Bootlicker

WELL I THINK YOUR BROWSER LIKES TO FELATIATE BIRDS!!

... YEAH! it sucks cloaca. How do you feel about THAT‽

WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT FIREFOX?????

I WILL KILL YOU!!!!!

I have been on here 2 years. First 1.5 years it was pretty fun.

Now I barely go by 3 days without someone telling me how shitty and awful I am for having a different opinion than them, or that I'm boomer because think AI doesn't belong in the classroom.

bingo.

already the 'news' communities are lemmy are full of shitty articles with misleading headlines and most of the comments never read the article. they are just ragebait being raged at, and when someone calls it out, they often get downvoted heavily by the rage addicts who just want to be angry at editorialized bullshit headlines.

and those threads have way more activity than articles that are more modest and truthful about their content. because that doesn't illicit strong emotional reaction from the readers or play into their biases.

and often the people who post this stupid crap, go into the comments and just insult and harass the commentators that don't agree with the raw emotional content being pushed. and if you look at their post history, they are spamming inflammatory bullshit all day. they are rage-addicts trying to promote outrage and enraged that others aren't as outraged as they are.

I think it just attracts the terminally onlines, I think most people on the fediverse are pretty cool and willing to argue stuff reasonably, but the insane people are so loud that's what you'll see very often.

We have the same problems reddit does. It’s just that it’s a smaller userbase and downvoted comments don’t disappear here like they get pushed down on reddit. So you don’t get downvoted as much, but your controversial or unpopular take remains visible for opposing opinions to attack. And yeah, there are mini-brigades here too. Make a comment about a subject that has importance to a particular instance and you get insta-downvoted multiple times, but your post will probably recover as the rest of the groups view the conversation.

This is true. The fediverse is unpleasant in occasionally different ways but is unpleasant. Part of it is human psychology that's hard to avoid (not that people are trying particularly hard), and then it's amplified by the demographics here possibly being somehow even worse at the whole "alternate view points" thing than Reddit is - which I seriously would not have thought possible, but here we are.

Maybe if the goal was making "reddit but less fuckfaced", it was a mistake to settle on the rather shoddy work of a bunch of extraordinarily angry tankies (possibly false flag although it's hard to separate one kind of dipshit from another kind of dipshit pretending to be the first kind of dipshit), and/or extraordinarily angry whatever else these... people... are - I'm sure spelling it out would be some kind of -ist, and whoo boy - no, sorry, that's probably sexist, damn. No, sorry, that's probably religious persecution, shit. No, sorry, ableism again because what if people have colostomies. Oh sorry, "colostomy" is Greek derived so probably also offensive to someone. And suggesting that is probably also possible to frame as offensive somehow, if one really puts one's alleged mind to it.

Instead of being banned arbitrarily from a sub because some shithead didn't like you criticizing Trump, you'll be banned arbitrarily from an entire instances because people are actively hunting for excuses to be offended, trolling, or just wildly out of touch with reality.
"I don't necessarily think Marxist-Len-" clearly fascist. Banned.

"Hey, that's crazy, man" - banned. That's ableism, don't'y'know.

"Some people get tricked into voting against their better int-" can't even tell what you were referring to, but banned anyway, just in case. Or because voting is fascist, or some other scintillatingly intelligent reasoning.

"Sometimes you can't get away from Windows-" fascist corporate something or other, banned.

"Sometimes people get offended, or pretend to, and it doesn't automatically make them righ-" (waiting to see how this one pans out, actually :P)

Getting a break from the (overt) right wingers is jolly nice, actually. The depressing upshot, though, is that it turns out a lot of the psychology is pretty similar anyway. The very people whining the loudest about the Reddit Gestapo get over here and immediately start the Lemmy KGB, but it's okay because their views are the right ones. Even though one of the main guys is still a blatant transphobic asshole, which is frankly pretty suggestive of something in this bastion of hyper zealous... "tolerance".

All to enjoy much less and shittier content... maybe it isn't 100% worth it, which makes the FV's hysterical self-congratulatory attitude pretty funny. Hooray, we have a deeply flawed and impractical, gimmicky bullshit architecture, thought up by someone who drinks Russian and Chinese and North-Korean (etc) flavor-aid! You even get different excuses when some dipshit abuses the moderation system, woohoo! This is like, the best thing since we ran over those protesters at Tiananmen square!

But once you make the wrong noises about something, plenty of people show up ready to prove just how mean and horrible they can actually be.

This is true. Linux isn’t my platform of choice, and the “passion” of the responses that provokes is remarkable.

frankly at this point i just assume that anyone who is really obviously being stupidly aggressive isn't a real person, it's probably just a bot meant to push people apart.

This has been my experience. Plenty if small subreddits I've perused where when they were small, they're all politle (whether in humor, serious discussion, or sharing hobbies). In time as they grew it just brings in more and more uh, typical redditors. Thats when you knew either abandon ship and make /r/true[subject] or just cut it out.

yep the smaller subs feel like a whole different website. The main pages have so much political doom and rage bait in my experience.

You could always switch instance though. That's a thing you can do in the Fediverse. You can't do that on Reddit.

rude disgruntled noises

As long as you're not a tankie!