Comment on How has your Lemmy experience changed over the past few months?
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
A lot more weird people now. I already miss the initial experience of a small crowd of tech people. Now it’s mostly memes, because you can’t have a good discussion on Lemmy without someone getting their perception bubble popped. I’ve been called a racist, a hater, homophobe, etc.
So of course all discussions are like “oh nice meme”.
Interestingly I’ve had quite a few negative bombed comments on Lemmy that were nothing burgers saying really plain stuff.
Weirdly I’ve had the complete opposite experience on the other platform. Comments that were also nothing burgers saying really plain stuff too.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you’re being called racist or homophobic by multiple people multiple times…you might be.
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Wow, I hope you don’t live by that advice yourself. People on social media type all kinds of crazy things. :)
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Depends. There are plenty of being using “racists” wrong, particularly meaning reverse racism or not understanding systemic racism. But it depends on what you’re saying to be called those things.
1984@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Yeah I agree it depends, that’s true.
OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Or it’s people trying to muddy the water to both-sides something. I’ve been noticing an uptick of posts from the far-right crowd creeping out of the woodwork recently, and they’re all up in arms about people saying US Conservatives are intolerant.
Being told not to be an asshole to others isn’t intolerance. It is the intolerance of intolerance - which is a necessary part of a tolerant society.
See: The Paradox of Intolerance (which the far right nuts call the new Mein Kamp. Gross).
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yea, the one I see the most is calling something racist when it’s in any way excludes white men. It may be a far-right tactic muddying the waters, but often it’s just naivety. I fell into that trap early in my life too. Difference was I never stopped learning. The things that seemed bad on the surface became a lot clearly once my curiosity forced me to figure out how and why those things started. Turns out, and I don’t want to blow anyone’s minds here, just about everything has a backstory and a really good reason for it. Shocker I know. Doesn’t mean it all ended up working as intended or anything, and some things are truly nefarious, but ultimately glossing over the history is what leads people to these bad takes.