Reddit is a shithole

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I remember I got into an argument on reddit awhile ago with a person over Italian food. It got to the point they were following me into other subs to harass me. I clicked on their profile to block them and their most recent post was them drinking their own piss on r/piss. At that moment I realized I had spent so much pointless time arguing about the taste of food with someone who drinks their own piss as a hobby. This site is a shit hole.

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macrocephalic@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Humanity is a shithole. Social media is a cross-section.

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- Firipu@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I hate that pov so much.
  
  Humanity is fantastic, wonderful, loving and amazing. It’s not a shit hole.
  
  I’d argue society is really broken in some places, but not humanity.
  
  As for Social media: it just brings out some dark side in some people. The vast majority of people on social media behave. It’s just that the outliers catch the attention.
  
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  - Ringmasterincestuous@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I hate this pov so much.
    
    I think it perpetuates that things are better than they actually are and inhibits change and progress… we’re all different I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️
    
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  - Johanno@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If you consider that we are currently destroying our eco system that we need to survive and have known for over 50 years that the co2 levels will cause major issues, but nobody really felt the need to act. And when the countries actually sat together and made the Kyoto contracts the USA stepa in anf fucks up the whole idea. Thanks Bush you little Oil-fucker
    
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  - OrdinaryAlien@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  it’s like when you cut a tub of ice cream to see the distribution
  
  you can tell a platform hasn’t got a good mix of people if there aren’t any freaks or difficult bastards
  
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  - Bonehead@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It's ok to be a freak. It's not ok to be an asshole for the sake of being an asshole. We like the weirdos for the colourfulness they bring to our lives. No one likes an asshole.
    
    Keep Lemmy weird. Don't be an asshole. Live by these rules and this place will always be great.
    
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- Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Dog Im on social media because Im the shit in the hole. When Im not on social media Im overall a pretty worthwhile person. Causation not correlation etc.
  
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Bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
On lemmy you’re just arguing with the same piss enjoyers without a piss home due to lack of active communities. Lemmy is just ex Redditors acting like they are better than Redditors.

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- chetradley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Redditors are cool. It’s the admin that can eat shit. I’d still be on that site if they weren’t greedy fucks.
  
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  - areyouevenreal@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I can’t imagine thinking redditors are cool. Not even redditors think redditors are cool.
    
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  - Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s a bit of a stretch to say they’re cool. For the most part they’re tolerable.
    
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  - Fades@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    lmao
    
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- SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Go back then?
  
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  - Bort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’m not going to support a scummy corporate company because Lemmy’s users can sometimes be elitist.
    
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  - NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’ve been banned from all my favourite subs. So I have to create a new account, get past the new account posting limits, build rapport again in my communities…
    
    too much work
    
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- Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  On lemmy search for a board and the same community is on every instance. A little bit of r/piss for everyone.
  
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- jcit878@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  less cookers as a proportion, but far more tankies
  
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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  hell i’m here specifically because i liked reddit but, y’know, didn’t like the actual reddit platform itself because it’s run by absolute wankers.
  
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STK96@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I reported an account that was posting CP and they banned ME for report abuse and let them continue posting but removed one of their CP posts. Reddit is a cesspool.

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- Vorticity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I wonder if Reddit could be held legally liable for trafficking in CP in that case. They were explicitly told “this is CP and should be deleted” and they didn’t act.
  
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  - STK96@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No idea, it’s weird they reacted that way because I reported all three of the CP posts on that account instead of just the one though. Evidently they have some questionable staff.
    
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  - Krachsterben@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They didn’t care for many years when /jailbait or /creepshots (pictures taken of women without their consent) was still a thing. It brought them traffic along with all their other porn subs
    
    They only cared when advertisers caught wind of them & considered dropping out
    
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- Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Probably one of the admins alts.
  
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  - STK96@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Crazy to think about but maybe.
    
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- SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  So that is ok but if you post to an “unapproved” subreddit (even if you are leaving a criticism of them) you get banned from subreddits by bots. Then you accidently post to one of them from a 2nd account and your account gets perma banned. Yay! “Reddit, a place for open discussion for only people we approve of subject to arbitrary rules.”
  
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HellAwaits@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Meanwhile on Lemmy, you’ll get death threats for simply stating you’re an arch user.

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- FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  From who? The Debian Taliban?
  
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  - superkret@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The GovernMint
    
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  - Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We prefer being called debian fundamentalists, but yes…
    
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  - boeman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    IBM
    
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- shadowSprite@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I commented that I had switched to Firefox browser from a chromium browser and that I was still using it but really didn’t like it and listed a few reasons why and got more down votes on that single comment than I’d ever gotten total on reddit. The condescending responses were something else. I almost deleted my account, like sorry, I clearly don’t subscribe to the lemmy hive mind, so I don’t belong here. I also don’t have strong feelings about Linux, guess I should get fucked.
  
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  - redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    As long as you’re not posting toxic stuff, you should just ignore downvotes because many people use them as disagree button instead of replying why they disagree with your points.
    
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  - sfgifz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Well, the good thing about Lemmy is your downvotes don’t add up to some Karma like it did on Reddit. You’re free to state your opinion in one post without having to carry it around everywhere.
    
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  - Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If you were on a linux or heavily privacy focused community, that’ll do it. I don;t mention that I use windows, I just say I’m looking into the swap to linux.
    
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  - Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Reminds me of the time I got downvoted for saying that I’m not going to pre-emptively leave Chrome due to their plans to make adblock stop working until my adblock actually stops working.
    
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  - SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You can tell you’re perfectly in touch with the Lemmy use base by how your comment claiming they all are evil and hate you is upvoted a lot.
    
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  - spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I posted a link in !technology@lemmy.ml about how mozilla had ruined firefox, damm got a hell lot of downvotes and a bunch of comments who hadn’t even watched the video going ‘hurr durr google baddd’
    
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  - Kittenstix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Firefox not having tab grouping native on mobile is the sole reason I won’t switch from chrome, i run ad lock as a vpn anyway so nothing google is doing will affect me.
    
    But also - 20 is rookie numbers, i think i broke -400 on one of my reddit comments years ago, I don’t even remember what I said, I don’t think it was even political as I lean pretty left.
    
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  - anosym@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sorry that you feel that way but I can’t see why after checking out the comment. It has downvotes yes. But there’s only 1 out of the 5 replies that I could agree is condescending. And it’s at the very bottom. The other comments seem to be trying to be helpful (because your experience with firefox can easily be fixed). How would that make you almost delete your account? Unless I’m looking at the wrong comment.
    
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- IverCoder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use Arch btw
  
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  - nyoooom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    go sudo pkill yourself
    
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- suenoromis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Or a windows user…
  
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  - iegod@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I will say my next PC I may try to go with a nix distro after being exposed to so many of the latest features, in no small party due to the sentiment on Lemmy.
    
    Mind you, that doesn’t mean I won’t use windows but I am curious to try. The constant bashing though has gone from slightly unexpected to annoying to now just cute.
    
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- qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not being an Arch user, I see that trend as redundant.
  
  If half of what is said about Arch is true, the system by default tries to kill the user out of sheer exhaustion from keeping it running.
  
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  - seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I run Garuda, which is an Arch derivative. Never had much of a problem with it. I update it once or twice a week.
    
    One thing it does is take a snapshot of your previous system before updating, so if something from the update breaks your system, you can roll it back.
    
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- 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What… That hasn’t happened to be at all.
  
  Arch btw.
  
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  - cows_are_underrated@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I use Arch btw.
    
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- Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Omg you use arch???
  
  ^me ^too
  
  Loser
  
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- kwekkie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  True I have yet to see Lemmy being any better. Although it’s good to see that even libtards are fleeing from Reddit.
  
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  - AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You look lost try /c/politics
    
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1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Reddit teaches you to not argue with people more than absolutely necessary. It’s a waste of time. Just stop responding to them if you don’t want to talk.

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- kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  no it doesn’t
  
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  - spez@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I see what you did there
    
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  - Defcon08@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes it does
    
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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is just generally true of the internet as a whole
  
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ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lololol imagine thinking lemmy is better than reddit for those reasons 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I have yet to have someone stalk me on Lemmy. Happened on Reddit all the time.
  
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  - cnut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yet. Reddit has been around for over a decade and has millions of users and lemmy has like a half million users. Lemmy isn’t better, there’s just a lot less of it. Duh.
    
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- WaxedWookie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The people with the presence of mind, principles, and ability to leave reddit so seem to be better. I tend to like posts here better. That’ll change as better clients, more users and better stability come online though.
  
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- Trihilis@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  A platform is as good as it’s users. I left Reddit because it turned into a shithole. I’ll do the same with Lemmy if that happens.
  
  I actually like the multiple smaller communities here, it’s part of the charm. If you think an instance is becoming too big just go to another one.
  
  You can’t really do that on Reddit since everyone is on the same big instance.
  
  Also leaving Reddit is the best thing for my mental health I’ve done in a while
  
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- steakmeout@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You and your conservacuck bumchums need to go back to Reddit and stay on Twitter fantasising about elon.
  
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SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Reddit was great for things like “Can you recommend some Italian restaurants in the area?” Then you’d get downvoted for recommending some Italian restaurants in the area.

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- fxt_ryknow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You needed to read between the lines. People were clearly looking for piss drinking tips…not actual Italian restaurants.
  
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UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I got into a minor disagreement with someone on there, turned out he had a second account as a mod and followed me about with that account to give me abuse and message mods on those other subs that I was a trouble maker. It meant I got kicked out of some subs I actually really liked and with people I got on with.

I closed that account after filing a couple of reports against said mod, filled out the box when deactivating with said description of events (though doubt admin bother to read it). I’ve since signed up again on a couple of burner accounts - I use temporary/disposable emails for this. Fcuk that website -they dont deserve my actual email, and I use other measures like blockers on that site.

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- NathanielThomas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My experience with Reddit mods:
  
  You’ve been banned
  
  Message mods asking why
  
  You’ve been muted
  
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- PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Pretty sure all mod mail just went to a box that shocked a hamster everytime they got a message.
  
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ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Bro imagine having the balls to give someone shit about taste while drinking your own piss

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- ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Seriously, what an asshole. Italian food is the tits.
  
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Icaria@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
More than once I had someone being an arse to me on reddit, I took a gander at their profile to see what kind of fucko I was dealing with… and it was full of their nudes.

One time it was someone who lived in the same town as me.

Yeah… your insults and comebacks don’t hit quite as hard now that I know you’re desperate for people to see your vagina.

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- v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Slight hints of misogyny? What’s wrong with people showing off their bodies if they feel like it?
  
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- steakmeout@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Wait, you think someone getting naked invalidates their argument?
  
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Ejh3k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I got into a reddit fight with someone claiming they never once tried to plug a USB in incorrectly. Another time I got down voted to hell because I asked someone why they go through so many pizza cutters. They claimed they went through like 7 in 3 years. Reddit was bad, but I miss the nostalgia of it. Too bad it only got worse and kicked off third party apps. .

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johnnybravo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The site seems more like a piss hole.

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Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is so fucking funny, thanks for reposting, OP. Rest in piss angry stranger.

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STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Does anyone hear remember r/sinkpissers?

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FrostbyteIX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Like Patches O Houlahan from Dodgeball once said:

“I drink my own piss because its sterile and I like the taste!”

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arc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
To be fair it happens here. Made a comment about far left & right being manipulated by Russian BS about Ukraine and some very tedious people started at me about how Ukraine are Nazis etc.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If someone is a jerk. I block them. Life is to short for trivial people.

I’m here for discussions and not name calling or bad behavior.

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over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s. We only serve Shit Posts here, we don’t offer drinks.

On a side note, that piss drinker’s username wouldn’t happen to be u/spez?.. 🤔

😂🤣 … 🤮

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Clbull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There was someone who used to DM me on Reddit to remind me that I was a c**t.

I think this went on for several years until I just got tired ,reported him to the admins, and had his account banned within the hour.

Other good one was having death threats sent to me by a burner account.

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Smeagol666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In an art appreciation sub (I think it was r/museum) some jackhole said they liked a Van Gogh painting because “it had colors resembling the Ukrainian flag”. I caught a third strike for saying “Fuck Ukraine”. When I explained to the mod that it was because i was sick of political bullshit creeping into everything, and the painting in question was painted 100 years before Ukraine was even a country, he rescinded the ban, but it didn’t matter, it was my third strike on Reddit. I even got a cute little hammer emoji. Yeah, fuck Reddit.

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Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“ew, there’s a hair in it”

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kamen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Certified Reddit moment.

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TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think my favorite example of this was when you’d go to type up a big-ass, well-thought-out reply, but before hitting submit you check their history. A non-insignificant amount of time their history was full of comments on loli porn and the darker NSFW subs. And here they are trying to claim the high ground.

Block and move on.

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pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
just join lemmy

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Custoslibera@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think about this post often and whenever anyone disagrees with me online I like to assume they are a piss drinker too.

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ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The Internet*, the Internet is a shithole.

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JoJoGAH@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the issue that’s so hard to see until it is explicit like your example. The time wasted, not spent on things of value is where this type of trolling costs us the most. In world news there were well thought out answers to some asshole who was just giving low quality taunts

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infyrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lemmy - please don’t be a place where you’d allow instances and communities that revolve around pissing, shitting and probably cum drinking or god forbid blood drinking. There are sadly r/piss and r/poop that cater to the sickly minded. They’re not fetishes. They’re for people who’re that far gone.

Only fucking reddit…

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imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Really? So Lemmy’s thing is kink shaming? We want that to be our thing?

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computerscientistI@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I called my car (MG) a product of our friends with almond-shaped eyes. Got my account suspended indefinitely. Why??? I avoided “Schlitzaugengezücht” as a description for my car and still…

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