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• sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  there was a bigger sense of community in june

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• italien@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Im new, but Id guess thats the reason. New people like me catching on to the fediverse stuff migrating from “mainstream” social like reddit.

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome to Lemmy, where you’ll see real and thoughtful conversations. I’m not being sarcastic, I think it’s obvious in this thread. If you have questions, you’ll see Lemmy really shine.

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• Tedesche@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve been on here since the Reddit API nonsense and it was always like this. Lemmy is a haven for the Far Left, and the Far Left is just as blind to nuance and their own hypocrisy as the Far Right is. It’s just something you have to put up with here, and that will be the case until Lemmy attracts a wider audience.

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Again, what exactly is the far left? What are their belief systems? Do they believe everyone should have a fair shot in life? Do they believe that our poorest should be taken care of? What exactly are you referring to?

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    • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tankies

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• bayank@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m experiencing an everybody is a fascist echo chamber

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s because people prefer controversy and being mean to each other

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• csm10495@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I noticed this a couple months ago. Just try to look at the things you want to see or are interested in. I stopped using Lemmy on my computer cause I found going to it to be too little content and/or depressing at times. It’s kind of an echo chamber.

  Reddit was better in this case. It was more subjective and had more umph. I didn’t feel like I was reading the same thing over and over. (This is my opinion. Yours can vary). If ya still like Reddit, you can use both: it’s a personal decision.

  Still though, Lemmy works well enough for the morning poop on my phone with Sync.

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• The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My guess: These days, all social media is full of outrage bait and extreme political takes that try to elicit strong emotions and engagement. Because Lemmy is fairly new, a decent chunk of the early adopters are the most terminally online and more likely to be swept up in it. Reddit’s early days were similar, but internet culture has definitely gotten more intense since the early 2010s.

  The solution: Be the change. I make a point to be active in positive communities and try to avoid the corners with more aggressive politics or people who are addicted to outrage and just want to argue all the time. It’s going to take more chill people being active posters/commenters. It’s part of the reason I’ve been motivated to post as much as I do, when I never did back on reddit.

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  • V17@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reddit’s early days were similar, but internet culture has definitely gotten more intense since the early 2010s.

    Has it really been that way? I've been on reddit since 2010 and from what I remember it was definitely much more nerdy and full of tech people who live on the internet, but I don't think it had much in common with what we call "terminally online" today. I associate "terminally online" with people who really care about things like culture wars and trying to push their views on others, spending a lot of time arguing about it. Whereas reddit in 2010 was much more homogenous - the stereotypes about forever alone IT nerds with nerdy hobbies were much more true than now, but that meant there were nowhere near as many cultural things to argue about. People sometimes had really weird or controversial opinions, but there was not a lot of added toxicity about it that's omnipresent now in the discussions.

    Ime the "terminally online" problems with toxicity and culture wars only started around 2014-15 with the rise of "online feminism", that seemed like the first big division into two hostile groups that spent significant time just attacking each other.

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    • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I agree with you and probably could have worded that better. I meant pretty much what you said - that the early adopters of reddit back then were techy and very online, with some strong opinions that come with that territory (remember r/atheism?), but it’s nothing compared to recent years.

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• hollyberries@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You are just seeing more posts, which is skewing your perception.

  I suggest you become familiar with blocking people, words/phrases, and communities. If you use a third party app you can even block entire instances. In your settings you can also block bot accounts. Blocking the news bots cleaned up my feed and I mainly browse new posts on All.

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• Melco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Isn’t that the same everywhere? Yes, there are bots here, but I think overrun is a pretty strong word.

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• SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  there’s “feel good” communities out there, but they’re not very active. the active communities are very toxic because they’re arguing about ideologies - tankies, *.ml communists, hamas apologists, and etc vs normal non-insane people. the arguing is why the communities are active.

  if you unsubscribe to the active communities you’ll see a lot less negativity - but your feed will be basically static & boring.

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  • TinyPizza@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your literal last comment to a post titled "‘Gaza will be liberated’: Tens of thousands march in S.F. to support Palestinians"

    liberated through saturation bombardment maybe

    Yikes

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    • SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      i’ve noticed that you like to follow me around and make similar comments.

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