Dude! I see you everywhere! I think you’re singlehandedly feeding the fediverse content! But anyway, yes, there were nazis and trolls, but in my experience, there was a group sense of decorum that we were all in this new utopia together and those folks got flamed by the whole pretty thoroughly.
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months agoBut even back in the IRC and USENET days, there were plenty of asshole Nazis and petty arguments and such that it made the internet pretty unpleasant quite often if you didn’t watch where you contributed.
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SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
That’s why kid me had a handy stack of DDoS tools. My bot and I defended DALnet’s #sailormoon and its denizens from Nazis, racists, and trolls. Yeah, I was a dork.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Which is great until they hit you back. I was lucky in that I was using my dad’s university account which was pretty immune to petty bot DDoS attacks, but I was also not a Nazi troll. I was just attacked by Nazi trolls who thought they could take my connection down.