I joined lemmy after reddit API changes, as many people did. At first, it was amazing. The community felt so alive, so friendly and welcoming. Obviously, the activity wasn’t exactly as large as it was on reddit, but I was patient, I knew more stuff was coming, and I was excited for it.
Unfortunately, this period would not last long. It would not last even a week until I got into my first argument with a tankie. I saw them and argued with them from time to time on reddit, but people there usually saw right through the bullshit and downvoted them to oblivion.
Here, it was so much different. They were all upvoted and supported by hordes more tankies. Constant genocide denial in China, support for Ruzzia, and somehow, for North Korea.
In retrospect, I should have left then, abandoned lemmy then and there, not really return to reddit, just leave both alone. I would have saved myself some sanity.
But I didn’t, which I regret. I wasted my time here, constantly seeing this bullshit, and sometimes I didn’t even have the motivation or energy to argue with them.
The amount of genocide denial, dictatorship praising, and insane arguments I’ve seen in a month blew past the amount of this shit I’ve seen on reddit in a fucking decade.
I don’t see the future in this, none whatsoever. Lemmy will be here, but it will always stay a tankie hellhole unless you block thousands of people and whole instances. And if you do, the tankies will always just migrate to other instances to keep spreading hate.
I am tired of this bullshit and I am done.
OP if you’re going to engage with rage baiting trolls you’re going to have an awful time on every platform. Possibly even get banned from some of them. The problem isn’t Lemmy, the problem is you and how you choose to react and engage with the trolls. Stop feeding the trolls.
The North Korea, China, and Russia dick sucking is real but why are you arguing with them to begin with? Just ignore them. I saw the same thing on reddit too, I don’t think this is a lemmy problem. It’s a people need to go the fuck outside problem. I, myself need to get out more. The internet is a place where people who are bored post their dumbass opinions unfiltered. Just play a video game or watch a movie or something. Or go out for a walk.
Edit: Horror seems like a bit of a stretch
I don’t think I argued with a single Tankie in my entire time here, and literally was on hexbear because they had the biggest fitness community at the time.
Seems like a you problem lol
On blahaj we lack downvote so the tankies aren’t downvoted to hell from our point of view. It only keeps their circlejerk upvotes.
But if you look at the comments from another instance, they are downvoted to hell.
Looking at their comments, OP does nothing on lemmy except interacting with rage bait trolls. Sometimes arguing is fun but if you think you need to correct or respond to every lemmy.ml comment in existence then ofcourse you will get depressed. Touch grass. Because the grass is green and your are just rolling around in a mud puddle.
