this is the correct answer
roughly 2 million people gave lemmy a try and 1.95 million walked away
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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why do Reddit and Twitter users not have a similar problem with all the fascist shit going on over there? If extremism would be the problem on Lemmy, why isn’t it a problem on Reddit or Twitter?
early_riser@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Twitter does have that problem. It’s had that problem for years. That’s why I’m not on Twitter. That doesn’t cancel out the craziness on here though.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
because most lemmy users are extreme leftists who think everyone is a fascist. i am a facist according to lemmy.
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know you are, but I mean generally
sleen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I can agree with you, the initial experience can be daunting for new users especially since majority of communities are of political nature. This experience honestly is why i think most people now reside in such communities - as that’s the experience with me.
In addition, I can agree with extremist stances being prominent on here. Eco-fascism is one of those that I found common even when I was only part of the “basic” communities.
early_riser@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly this. Everyone is always “on”. Everything HAS to be about politics, and if one syllable you utter isn’t cursing Donald Trump and his descendants unto the thousandth generation you’re labelled a fascist. I mean for heaven’s sake I don’t like him, I didn’t vote for him, and I’m counting the days until his term is over, but no that’s apparently not enough.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
if there is anything i’ve learned, online or not. miserable people hate anyone who isn’t as miserable as they are and will harass and insult you for not being miserable just like them.
for example, i like my job. this makes a lot of people immediately hostile to me when they find out because they hate their job.
HarneyToker@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s really reductive.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
life is reductive. it’s not my job to have empathy for militant losers who sit around flipping between whining about their lives and then engaging in violent political fantasizing about how they will kill the non believers.