It’s more than a few. It’s several admins, a handful of their followers, nearly an entire instance’s users (even after blocking it), and even one user that is now hiding under a new account.
It’s also partly how the platform works which feeds the most toxic users. It’s how the platform seems to entice people into stricter tribalistic behavior than other platforms. Say anything that might be construed as negative towards one of the many things these groups base their entire identity on and you get swarmed by them and you can’t even defend yourself. You get downvoted to hell and they get upvoted for being assholes by their other cult-like followers. Not that votes “matter”, but it just makes it feel shitty when someone decides to be an asshole to you and they get supported for it while trying to defend yourself only gets more people against you.
There’s more, but trying to describe it all is making me feel worse.
This place sucks. It’s absolutely awful that I feel this is actually true, but reddit was better than this.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
What instance?
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 8 months ago
dbzer0, actually. I literally just had a recent encounter with the admin Flatworm/Unruffled where they decided to needlessly pick a fight. They were backed up by other dbzer0 users, including @Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com, in fact.
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
For context
The whole thing is quite large for a temporary 7 days ban.
On the other hand the voting / flair system implemented on dbzer0 is quite unique, in a positive way lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49093780
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The real context is that I was merely disagreeing with db0 being chill based on my own experience. Flatworm/Unruffled and Eugene then busted in being rude as hell for just disagreeing. You supported that behavior.