Well people are toxic. The fediverse itself cant be toxic. Why would people stop being assholes just because they went to a different platform?
its almost like any sufficiently large group of humans will reflect the worst of humanities traits.
who knew ?? /s
So, same stuff with a coat paint of “community”.
i dont think you get it.
its not a tech problem, its a human problem. but for some reason whenever we go to solve social issues the funding evaporates.
I haven’t seen it so bad here. Only a few people have told me that they want me dead, but most are respectful
Only a few? Normally, I’m not a big fan of violence, but if it helps your score, I’ll wish you dead, too. <3
I hope this comes across as funny rather than cruel.
Disrespectfully yours,
Tooth
I’m not a big fan
I’m a very big fan.
I hope @remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world falls into you and is turned into mince meat 💓
Thank you. You don’t know what that means to me.
By the way, how did you make the link to me? I think I’ve been doing it wrong.
Like, an obese fanatic or a gargantuan ceiling fan?
Swimming against the current is a standard operating procedure for me but somehow I’ve managed to avoid the death threats. Maybe it’s because I virtually never get personal.
Don’t you dare to have opinions that don’t align with mainstream thinking here.
[Sounds of pitchforks being sharpened]
Lol
It’s even worse than that.
With social media, no one ever really ever gets to know anyone (in general; there are obviously exceptions). We call the topic-based groups here “communities” but they’re anything but. People just read your comments in a vacuum, put on their judge’s robe, make snap decisions (often taking you completely out of context or putting words in your mouth), and start throwing labels/accusations around. Then the bandwagon effect kicks in, the keyboard warrior lynch mob shows up, and fuck you, I guess?
Same as it ever was.
The real question is, what about that bothers you?
I’ve never been enamored with social media in general (this is my last vestige of it), so it doesn’t bother me much; like you said, ‘Same as it ever was’. The only thing that does is seeing that kind of behavior bleed over into real life.
That’s the fault of capitalism
Absolutely agree
Take a look over one of those huge toxic threads, and count up how many people are being assholes, and how many people are just there to type their happy little comments.
In my experience, the number of assholes is in the low single digits. It’s actually not that bad. It’s just that anyone who’s an asshole tends to amp up other people into a big spat, and also that they stick out (and attract more attention and replies) than the normal people. But there really aren’t that many of them. They’re just noisy.
Also, it helps to stay away from lemmy.world. For whatever reason, the shouty bad-opinion people tend to congregate there. I recommend Beehaw.
I mean, all this says is people are going to be people and unfortunately the vast number of people are terrible.
Obviously. It’s still just people hiding behind anonymized usernames and interacting with posts that are largely singular ideas.
The risks associated with being an asshole are largely removed and the ability to empathize is limited by lack of access to things like body language, facial expression, tone of voice, and real time communication. Of course people will be emboldened to be their most brazen selves in an environment like that.
It can be more because moderation is less strict. And this is good
Well they sure are trying. It’s quite the effort to try keep up with the content filters to keep this place even half-tolerable
Sure, it’s still the Internet!
