It feels like people are a lot nicer here than on Twitter and Reddit, and even when people disagree, it’s generally civil and not an all-out flame war. Also, there’s no algorithm promoting outrage all the time.

For me, the anticipation of toxicity was a huge deterrent for me ever participating in real discussions, but here I feel like I can be myself.

I think it’s healthier this way.

  • ettyblatant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    1 year ago

    I already see it and it bums me out. People are already stepping in a discussion just to be aggressively mean for no reason. I hope we can reply to them with patience instead of feeding the monster (or, just, y’know, don’t engage)

    Grumblegrumble this is our chance to be different!

    • Veltoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yep, that and people bringing along all the mindless echo chambers and circlejerking I was hoping to leave behind on reddit.

      People hated reddit for these reasons, and many of us left reddit for these reasons, and now these toxic assholes are doing everything they can to make lemmy just like reddit.

      I wish those people would just stay on reddit. If they want to make lemmy like reddit why did they even leave??

      • dudebro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        So… people should disagree with each other just to disagree?

        If you’re talking about biased mods, then I completely agree. But as far as the community, of course people are going to agree with what’s popular and disagree with what isn’t.

        That’s what makes things popular and unpopular.

        • Veltoss@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is a real braindead take and I’m not sure what point you are trying to make here. If you can’t tell the difference between circlejerks and echo chambers, and people simply discussing things they mostly agree with, that’s your own problem.

          Doesn’t mean it’s not a real issue or a thing that even exists, that’s just a silly thing to even say.

    • B1naryShad0w@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been trying my best to reply to such comments with kindness and what they could have done to make their comment more constructive. Lot’s of people react on emotion and sometimes they just need a bit of guidance to engage constructively. Others that are both unhelpful and rude get a report also.

    • dudebro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You should just block those people when you come across them.

      Eventually you’ll start seeing them less and less.