Has anyone else noticed this, across the fediverse, Lemmy specifically. A lot of new users, but also a lot of first posts that are very inflammatory/rage baity.
Do we have another legit influx of new users? Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot? Or maybe I’m imagining it.
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Yes have noticed more rage bait. Also more and more culture wars in comments. Still not anywhere near as bad as reddit.
Leaving the 3 biggest news comms has been one of the best things I’ve done recently.
comms
Communications?
Communities
Cormorants?
I mean, if you want tone policing, reddit is still there.
If you keep out of Political Communities then you may not see them.
This has been in the Ask communities unfortunately
Definitely. Most of the time communities are friendly and supportive - but I’ve noticed too that there are users who seem deliberately scratchy and saying things that are looking to provoke and who become fizzy if they’re challenged in any way about something they’ve said. I wondered if it’s much younger users who are coming from other places having picked up the “fight me” attititude there.
In my experience, it’s not new. I noticed things were far more hostile than my reddit experience from the moment i got on Lemmy. Maybe it’s because I unsubscribed from all the toxic places on Reddit (i promise they exist) but I browse /all here since it’s too quiet otherwise.
I think it matters community to community - but I don’t disagree with you. Personally, I suggest curating a list of communities that you like and subscribing to them. It’s been much more pleasant having that than the barrage of All.
Yeah, guess I’m just worried about missing out on cool new communities popping up. Almost every post in all is from a different community.
I had a list of 90 active cat picture subreddits. Wish we had even a fraction of that here.
As a fairly new user to lemmy I have found that the community can be pretty brutal and there are quite a lot of set things that are frowned upon. Windows always gets a lot of abuse, but for me here in the UK the amount of Mac and Linux users is miniscule, for example… yet Windows is frowned upon greatly. Sp whilst not raging, it is deffo anti a fair few things. I know it is to be expected as it is a fairly technical things to use lemmy/piefed/fediverse but it still makes me wince. Like everything these days, the less passionate just don’t post any more so it does bring out some strong responses
It’s not only about many people here being technical, of course you’re right that it plays a big part, and it’s also that the Fediverse is a rejection of for-profit, closed social media, so there’s a HUGE crossover between its users and the FOSS community (including Linux users) who really take strong issue to many things about Windows (and Mac) that Windows users consider to be normal. And with Lemmy especially, the initial userbase was largely anti-capitalists, since Reddit was banning many of their subreddits and was exploiting their users for profit with ads, blocking third-party apps, and bending to the demands of media companies and their owners. So plenty of people here are political about software.
I totally understand, but it is also why many people I know come, have a look around and are swiftly gone… I was trying (badly) to be pretty generic in my point, you said it a lot better than I could think of at the time
I’ve noticed more debatelords (only in large communities, like c/technology), not sure they will stay if we don’t feed them and the more debatelordy instances just simply ban them.
