I became so exhausted from the toxicity on Lemmy that I began searching for alternatives, and I stopped trying to argue in the comments. This leads me to wonder: am I the only one who is feeling this way?
Conform or feel the wrath of my comments and down votes.
It isn’t just you. Sometimes it is work even to prove you said something as a joke
There’s quite some toxicity here, but once I blocked lemmygrad and hexbear plus most instances on lemmy.ml, it’s much better.
Don’t shy away from blocking a ton of communities or prolific shitposters as well, especially when browsing by new.
So you basically slowly build your own reddit-like bubble by removing what you don’t want to see (or disagree with)… Doesn’t it go intuitively against the idea of “federating” with other communities?
Of course, the difference with lemmy is that you become your own censor, while on reddit the admins have control over everything; on paper this definitely sounds the more “freedom option” but I am afraid it’s just going to lead to compartmentization in bubbles that don’t talk to each others at all. And I’m not talking about spam or outright offensive idiots, I am talking about opinions you don’t like.
I’m not building bubbles, I’m creating a curated interest-based feed.
Why should I watch an endless stream of anime, star trek memes, porn, linux FAQs and whatnot that I couldn’t care less about?
Hexbear and lemmygrad have not a single community I care for, so I blocked them altogether.
And the sense of a Federation is not to be involved with everyone, just to have the option to do so.
No, you’re definitely not.
I saw a saying (maybe here) recently. Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action; but by the tenth or twelth time, it’s probably you.
It was old almost as soon as it began. I’m still shocked that people seem to be wanting those parts of Reddit rather than leaving them behind.
A lot of people are the problems with that place, and like a bad smell it followed them.
Blocking entire instances I’m told improves things, but gods damn that’s a huge block list to have to enact
Started encountering mods being asses now. For some communities, it leaves Reddit as the preferable alternative, which is a horrible state for things to be in.
