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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] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who “crawled out of a shithole” i can accept that “luck” or circumstance plays a big role. But if you are not born privileged and you grasp what’s important to do better and put effort (and the circumstances allow it) then your efforts are as crucial as putting them in the right place which might be impossible to accomplish for most.

For that reason I cannot agree with dismissing my individual actions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Of course your efforts can get you into a better place. But it's also completely possible to put effort in and get screwed over anyways. And it's possible that someone puts no efforts in but suddenly wins in the lottery. Efforts matter, but they dont guarantee anything.