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If you take antagonistic positions and argue with folks you're going to get responses like that. You probably have anywhere from 50 to 1500 people read that response and the chances of your words being the straw that broke any one of their backs is fairly decent.
We all have bad days. I block a fair number of people on here for being antagonistic pricks - even if they do so couched under the veil of reasonableness - because that isn't why I come here. But other people choose violence. And I can understand.
While this is undeniably good advice, it doesn't address the core issue IMO.
Yes, Lemmy users are unusually hard to deal with. It's roughly equivalent to Discord in terms of angry userbase, maybe a bit worse - even Reddit seems pretty level headed in comparison.
Good point. Thanks.