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A little rant about lemmy.ml (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I like a lot of the communities on that instance, but every once in a while I just get hit with a random wave of toxicity by them for no reason. For example, there was a post asking which communities from Reddit do you wish existed on Lemmy, and I answered honestly saying more car related communities as they are one of my hobbies, and I got severely downvoted and got replied to with "there is a FuckCars community" There are other times in the past where something similar happened in a lemmy.ml community, where I said something that was 100% non-offensive, non-argumentative, and non-political but got mass down voted for no reason. I have not had this problem anywhere else however. Does anyone else have a similar experience or no?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You mentioning the car thing is so true. Anytime you mention stuff about cars here, you'll get the typical comment reply using it as a soapbox platform to say how cars are the devil.

The FuckCars users are some of the most toxic people on this site. It's not even worth arguing with them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I get why people are anti cars. But those who want to take cars away from people who enjoy them and who are trying to behave responsibly just suck.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same thing for technology.

I had to block five tech communities because it’s nothing but “technology evil” posts and comments, and when I complain about the lack of positive feedback, they just tell me I’m ignorant to reality…which is irrelevant to me just wanting to enjoy positive tech communities…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And god forbid you mention Windows. You’ll be told you’re better off dead in no time…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I stopped hanging out in most tech communities for the same reason. Thinking of quiting a few more and a few game ones, the behaviour has started dripping in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why don’t you guys start a new community that suits you? I bet there’s more people that feel the same way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I recall, there was a split in that Reddit community about whether to migrate here. Most of them decided to stay there on the (reasonable) grounds that they wanted to reach as many people as possible with their (IMO justified) message. So presumably the ones who came here are the dogmatic ideologues who prefer hating to persuading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

thats an extremely weird assumption to make as a lemmy user

[–] Whirlybird 2 points 1 year ago

Try saying windows is a good operating system lol