I’m a long time Lemmy lurker and occasional Redditor. Since the Reddit influx, I’ve watched the frequency of shitty Reddit-type behavior, e.g., combative comments, trolling, and unnecessary rudeness, just sky rocket.
I’m happy to have more content on Lemmy, but I wish the bad actors and assholes would have stayed on Reddit.
Yes, I realize the irony of posting this on a new community that’s basically a Reddit transplant.
Reddit -> Lemmy transplants are circlejerking about how evil Spez is, how Reddit is “doomed”, or how much they hate people like Musk.
Oh my God, yes. It’s like hanging out with thousands of recent divorcees. They just. Won’t. Shut up.
It’ll be interesting to see how this progresses but I’m hoping the asshole fraction gets bored and leaves. We’ve always had assholes and trolls but not like this. I’ve been just calling the assholes on their shit, hopefully it helps drive them out.
Tech hipsters have a detrimental effect on everything they touch. Please stop.
The irony of someone with your handle calling anyone a tech hipster is immeasurable with today’s technology.
Regardless, the post is about shitty Reddit behavior, of which your comment is a sterling example. If doesn’t actually add anything useful to the conversation, you’re just being an ass. Why? Who knows, but it just makes the place more unpleasant than before.
Your post is a boring rehash of the same old “eternal September” complaints from the mid-90s. My username has nothing to do with it.
You’re absolutely right. Reddit was the source, but it really could have been people from anywhere.
I do wonder if Reddit’s culture does affect the attitudes of those coming over, though. One thing I saw all the time on Reddit was the unhelpful critic: the guy who was more than happy to tell you you’re wrong, whether or it not doing so is warranted, contextually inappropriate, or even makes sense, and only that you’re wrong - they add nothing else to the conversation. I’ve had a TON of those recently; there’s even one in this thread. I used to see them here every so often but never like this.
This is something we as mods for communities can combat. It’s a rule I enforce across my communities, posters who engage in hostility and attack people have their comments removed. Simple as.
People can discuss things, that’s fine but the second conversations devolve into personal attacks that is not okay.
We have the power to decide how we want the communities we have to grow and what behaviour we want to discourage. Sometimes people just need a little push in the right direction.
We can also all do our parts without mod intervention by being just decent and not engaging in the same toxic behaviour. You can also report comments to mods. It really helps us out to get reports in for comments/posts that break the rule as we may not always see it due to our instances etc…
That is expected isn’t it? Both sites are driven by people, and people can be an assholes. Doubt we can do too much to drive them out.
