I find Reddit way more toxic, especially post the purge from the lack of apps. It’s like their moderation ranked or something. It’s probably different in smaller pages, but I’ve found the front page over there is way worse than Lemmy nowadays in terms of quality of conversation.
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am reading a lot more toxic discussion and really angry people here on lemmy than i did on reddit, which makes me sometimes think i might be at the wrong place. I blocked some of the communities that pull american politics in my feed but still. On reddit, i was good reading just my niche interest subs, but there is very little traffic here for niche stuff, so i end up reading the crazy talk too.
Shyfer@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
Given the purge was due to moderator access to API’s, I’m not surprised.
Zippy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same. And I like some disagreement as that brings discussion. Lemmy can be pretty toxic if you don’t echo back the expected.
clearleaf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve noticed an ebb and flow to that. It seems like anger goes down when activity goes up, which is the opposite of what I would usually expect from the internet but that’s how it’s been on here. I have an account where I filter/block things and one where I don’t so I can see what’s really going on, and when there’s too much hate and rage content on the front page I take a break from lemmy for a while.
I think most of the people who say lemmy isn’t toxic at all are probably people who found a bubble where people don’t push back on their personal brand of toxicity very much.
Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The halcyon days lasted about month. After that each post sounded more and more like that 14 year old atheist reading the bible meme.
heatiskillingme@kbin.social 5 months ago
My experience is exactly the same. I find people way more toxic here, and way more extreme discussions. I still reddit more on my PC, RES makes reddit worthwhile, and I'm unsubbed to most of the very popular subreddits, so my feed is mostly tailored to my hobbies and interests, which don't seem to be either very active here, or don't exist yet.
Since I don't reddit on my phone anymore cause I can't use RIF, I use kbin. But it's rather lackluster to me.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Odd, my experience is the opposite. Everyone here is chill and I rarely get flooded with downvotes.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works defederated from some of the more problematic instances. You’ll see it happen more on lemmy.ml.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You still see it quite alot on lemmy.world
andxz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I agree with you, for the most part this has been my experience as well.
buzziebee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah I think it’s because there’s so much less engagement here than on Reddit. The same toxic people would have been buried or down voted to hell over there, but here with far far fewer comments those toxic trolls will remain visible and take up a disproportionate amount of any comments section.
There’s also a selection bias thing going on, people who would get shadow banned or downvoted on Reddit find that they get engagement with their content here so stick around, the people who they put off will leave, which causes the toxicity ratio to go up and eventually the place will end up full of toxic commenters and posters. With a federated system this is an incredibly difficult problem to solve.
There’s some interesting musings on how this can affect the development of online spaces here which has stuck with me since I read it. eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/
rab@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Man that blog post nails it I think. Lemmy is probably not going to grow much at all because yeah, all the normal people are chased away
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 months ago
You also have a few things Reddit did or could do that you can’t really do on Lemmy. You also have, with a few exceptions, a rather new moderation team on Lemmy without the years of experience that some Reddit moderators had.
Outside of the mass defederation of any Nazi instances, Lemmy has been a lot weaker on overall moderation.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
On lemmy, I’ve literally been told that I should be tortured and nuked because I was born in the US, and then got banned for defending myself.
rab@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Yeah I find it incredibly toxic here. I’m way more prone to leaving a comment on reddit than here. Honestly the inbox notification on lemmy gives me a little anxiety.