โ€ฆsometimes it does feel like this.

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70 points

Youโ€™ll find that anywhere. Not just on the Internet, either. Literally, everywhere.

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True, but Reddit had the right conditions for toxicity to grow and begin to run rampant. Lemmy, with its decentralized nature, should limit the spread of any toxic communities.

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I dont think it will limmits it at all it will spread so u end uo wirh multiple communities for the same thibg with different flavours of toxicity. We already have that with world news ie the .ml flavour of toxicity vs the other instances with differing flavours

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The .ml situation predates the whole reddit thing, no?

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You should check out Facebook, Twitter, IRC, NextDoor, 4chan, 9gag, or any other Internet forum (including comment sections of news articles). Reddit does not hold exclusive rights to any โ€œright conditions for toxicity to growโ€.

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Yeah, thereโ€™s lots of places with rampant toxicity. I was just comparing reddit and lemmy, and I consider the Federated nature of lemmy to help prevent (not necessarily stop) toxicity from growing.

Iโ€™m not an expert on this whole Federated thing, but to me, it sounds like if one community is having problems with another, they can just disassociate and not have to deal with it anymore.

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5 points

I think the difficulty will be the slippery and nebulous definition of โ€œtoxicโ€

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Itโ€™s more easily expressed when people donโ€™t have to directly face the sensitivity of the other humans. For example, from inside a car, in an online competitive game or an online forum.

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26 points

High school never ends.

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