Eat farts.
So far, I’ve encountered far more negativity on Lemmy than I did on reddit. Ymmv, but I feel like our smaller user base has concentrated the negativity.
Having bounced back to reddit a couple of times, I haven’t had that experience. Talking here seems to lead to more thoughtful responses. Also some small minority on reddit love the unexplained downvotes of disapproval for perfectly well intentioned, polite posts, and there’s less of that on Lemmy.
As an example, I started c/52weeksofbaking (copied over from reddit). Its a place for amateur bakers to challenge themselves, try new things, and share their successes and failures. There’s zero reason to downvote posts there. I stickied a request for people to not downvote in that community. It’s currently sitting at 20 upvotes and 18 downvotes.
We can make fun of people for caring about fake internet points, but if we want to get more people to use lemmy and create content, we need to create communities that feel welcoming.
Kind of like people insulting OP in this thread, if you specifically ask people to not downvote something, they will downvote it. I don’t think it’s a serious sign of ill will.
I like how kbin works in this regard - while downvotes are available, kbin doesn’t federate downvotes from other instances. So sometimes I’ll have a post that looks like it has a mild positive score and someone will say “not sure why you’re getting downvote” and I’m “huh?” Blissfully unaware. I think that while up/down voting can play an important role in moderation, voting and karma it didn’t quite work out the way reddit intended originally. Downs are so often used as a way to lash out at someone, and very highly rated posts are often just some silly joke vs. something truly constructive. It’s annoying and makes me roll me eyes to have one of those conversations where the other person downvotes each reply as soon as you post it.
There’s a delicious degree of irony that you’ve been downvoted for giving an opinion
But he went against the Lemmy circle jerk groupthink!
Sacrifices must be made to the fediverse or we’ll all be cursed for our disobedience.
The energy has been thrown off here because of his transgressions.
Quickly - someone say something about Arch Linux or about how capitalism sucks!!
I know it’s fun to poke the troglodytes, but they do bite and you might catch the stupid. Wear gloves.
Some of us just use Ubuntu and want to give high fives to kind folks. Therapy helps ❤️🙌
It was real flowery here for a couple weeks during the celebratory fuck Spez exodus when everyones third party reddit browsers died. But yeah, now it’s a cesspool of negativity.
Be generous with blocks, both people and communities. It makes a lot of difference.
Don’t worry, the political threads are just as vicious as ever.
You’re not turtle enough for the Turtle Club.
Except on news and world news that for me are exactly the same.
Depends on the instance. Lemmy world has gotten pretty bad, but Beehaw for instance (no pun intended) remains great.
Idk what to say in Beehaw form but I heard they hate communists, maybe because of lemmingrad, I totally understand the position but for me is no go.
If you think the anti-communist sentiment on Beehaw is too strong I’m not sure what you’re doing on lemmy.world.
The rules are simple:
- Don’t be a communist
- Don’t be not a communist
- If you have a car, do not talk about it
If you follow those easy steps you should be fine
- Don’t not hate Capitalism, even as a joke.
- Don’t post anything a child can’t understand.
I know these are meant to be funny but double negatives always piss me off so much. Like they are literally useless and make parsing the sentence for meaning harder because they add a bunch of noise in front what you are actually saying.
- Don’t admit you use Windows
- Don’t talk about any browser other than Firefox, Librewolf or a spinoff
- Linux, Linux, Linux.
The car thing is insane, even when you explain that you live in as regional area with limited options AND that I can drive to work in 20mins vs 60mins on public transport, you still get yelled at.
The sane ones make a decent point about infrastructure (I’m definitely anti-car).
Blaming the individual for the lack of realistic options provided by the government is pretty nuts.
Just check the 15min-Town idea created in France.
We must realize that most actually town-concepts and public transport are build to seduce you to buy a car. (Mostly in western countries, where the car industry is one of the main successors.)
Oh the market is 40 min away and outside of the town and the bus only drives every two hours, well better buy a car or get lost.
Back to the 15-min Town, the concept is, there is everything you need for living (market, doctor, schools etc.) in an area you can reach in 15 min without a car.
Instead of a random asshole from /r/conservative, it’s a random asshole from hexbear.net.
