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My experience on this platform has been mixed so far but one thing I've noticed the most is a significant contingent of the user base is really reactionary in their discourse.

This is a very typical exchange I have here :

User: I don't like this color because it's red.

Me: I don't know, looks more like purple to me. What about red is bad?

User: Why don't you fuck yourself in the face you fucking cuntfuck!

Me: OK...

Like, what gives? I don't have this experience on other platforms. I have arguments but never this shutdown meccanism.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I could be an asshole. I won't debate that. Maybe I am.

My point isn't to claim I'm not an asshole. My point is compared to other spaces the vitriol and anger here seems ramped to 100.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't necessarily calling you an asshole, it's just a quote that represents what the other commenter was talking about.

To answer your initial question, I haven't personally noticed Lemmy being more toxic than other platforms like it. Most conversations I've had have been pleasant. But I tend to avoid commenting on hot button topics. You commented on a topic that people feel strongly about and got angry comment replies. I wouldn't say that necessarily represents the site as a whole. But both of our experiences are anecdotal so it's difficult to say which is more common.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

I think you're right. Hot button topics are just to be avoided I guess or fare repercussion.

How can we avoid being captured by epistemic bubbles though? That's the part that scares me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think what you're experiencing is people here being less tolerant of your assholery.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

I'm Ok with that. It seems to come up in benign comments too. Thats why I was curious. I'll own the asshole position and declare myself a loser. I'm not offended by that.