The number of trolls is going to increase as the user base increases.
Plus, you get the same negative effects of the echo chambers like Reddit did, but I think the communities being so small amplifies the effect.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor.
You should ask a police officer how some neighbours talk to each other...
Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: "it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative."
For my part I haven't really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!
OMG, yes! I've been running into so many rude/toxic comments lately. For me it feels like this place is devolving into Reddit again.
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I've said it before, Lemmy is a fickle place.
I expect it will get better with time as we get more users.
A symptom of rising tensions around the world in recent months, and this platform already being a political space.
Yeah I've given this place an honest try but people are so quick to downvote, it's not exactly encouraging me to actively post here
Also I notice the same 10 assholes in every thread
You notice people? Even on Reddit I never noticed people's names when they comment.
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The halcyon days of Lemmy lasted a week or so. As soon as you have mods coming over for Reddit you have all the shit they are schlepoed along with them. Iβm only in here when Iβm shitting and then only because Iβve memorised the blurb on the back of the air freshener can already.
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When they are insulting should mean that they have no arguments... maybe they have issues on their life. Who knows, but it's a waste of time to reply to them.
Yes. Yes you are.
This vibe has been here from the start. But it was kept at bay by defederating left and right from "troublemakers".
Problem is actual troublemakers don't care where they are. All they have to do is make a new account and keep on troubling.
So all the isolation managed to do is slow down the conflict, make it less visible. And it worked too.
Yet you can't stop the fighting, not for long anyway.
We have to fight, have to make drama. Peaceful living is too boring all the time.
Before it was toxic positivity. The veneer has broken down now that people aren't trying their best to bring over reddit refugees, and the ugly underneath is visible.
I haven't really noted a shift, but there's always a few folks in a given place, real or virtual, that are absolutely unwilling to take a nuanced view. My way or the highway and all that. Hard to have a historical view though when a major part of the users have all come on board in the last 7-8 months, me included.
Aggressive yes, and more people deliberately misinterpreting what you say just to feel smug. Also people that don't understand that a Lemmy comment can't have the exhaustive detail and context of a Wikipedia article, and they take any omission of such in a comment as ignorance by the op.