PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m asking because I’ve personally found it far more hostile than Reddit (the only other platform I’ve put much time into). What I’ve mostly seen is that people downvote quickly and tend towards eliteism relative to Reddit. That said, I recognize that this could be just by instance or community, so I’m curious how others have found it.
Yeah idk, I’ve tended to see the exact opposite. I rarely downvote and I think most people I interact with on here do the same.
What kind of communities do you frequent? For me it’s a pretty curated c/home with most chill communities and then I’ll browse c/all and even on there most people seem chill.
So long winded but to answer your question I think most people are nice, the elitist comments might not get drowned out as much since there’s less people.
I’d say there are fewer hostile people, but the ones that are hostile are really hostile.
I do notice users here snapping back at jerks a lot more.
There’s far less of a chance of being banned for it here. Unless you’re snapping back at a mod or admin directly.
My experience is the opposite. I’m mostly on startrek.website & lemmy.world, while keeping local in the former and going for all in the latter.
ive found it incredibly diverse. there are many instances, and some are known for nice folks. beehaw is friendly.. midwest.social has been nice to me.
lemmy.world is a taunting wasps nest of nonsense.. the bigger the community the more... rough.. you may find it.
There’s definite buzz words here. Use them and get destroyed depending on what light you’re using them in.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
The problem is not just that it’s hostile, but it’s also full of people that know jack shit.
On Reddit you go to r/whatever and there’s a good chance the guy answering your question is the actual godfather of whatever. Those guys didn’t make the move to Lemmy because they are hardcore into whatever, but casually into Reddit. What we got are the people that were hard core into Reddit, and casual into whatever.
So we have a bunch of blind leading the blind dilettantes getting all post about shit they know fuck all about.
stevehobbes@lemy.lol 6 months ago
That’s actually a really great point that was hitting on something I felt but didn’t understand about my interactions and I think it really sums it up. It feels like every community is a general community here - explaining how technology works on reddit to someone on a general purpose sub was expected, but here you get people posting clickbaity anti-capitalist anti-tech shit in tech communities that are factually wrong and getting absurd upvotes and agreement from people who agree with the politics and that’s all.
768@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Knowledge is low, sire.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
There was also a good chance they were another Unidan.
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Who was pretty knowledgeable about biology and contributed a lot before he developed a serious case of Reddit brain.
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I forgave his sins and allowed myself to miss him. The magpies in my back garden agreed with this.