This is in regards to all the screenshots, communities and users who engage in this behavior and not about any specific instance or community even though I cribbed this post from elsewhere.
We think its really irresponsible to host, maintain and participate these communities. we think that hosting and participating in these kinds of communities is toxic for the Fediverse and Lemmy. Anyone who has any sense would avoid Lemmy because of this kind of stuff and only douche bags want this. As soon as it is sniffed by people posting in good faith they are out of here and I don’t blame them.
If you are a user on Vegan Theory Club, please do not participate in these communities. If you are an admin of a server we implore you to please reevaluate hosting them. This goes for all of them if I agree with them ideologically or not. This isn’t Reddit with millions of people and venture capital (and now stock market cash) to forever grow, this is small human scale social media that can only grow by being enjoyable. Instead of promoting the block button these communities are killing this platform and you’re just going to be left with a group of hateful losers circle-jerking to themselves forever until we run out of our personal money for it.
Hear hear. If someone is threatening or harassing you mods and admins are the first port of call.
If you think someone has silly ideas then by all means critique ideas but trawling through a random person’s comments to highlight them for public shaming is juvenile bullying and completely unproductive. If someone isn’t targetting individuals and is just saying something you find aggravating block and move on, the alternative is this website degenerates into a cycle of reddit drama ‘le epic owns’ drivel.