In the past week and a half, I’ve noticed Reddit behaviors starting to try and poison all of the places that people are taking refuge in to get away from the toxicity, myself included. They’ve started to DDoS Lemmy for a while, which is a Reddit thing to do and what they’re notorious of doing whenever they feel they don’t like something.
And now they’ve been trickling in numbers, these incredibly toxic users that behave as they would on Reddit. The reckless shitposting, derailing open civil discussions with unfunny and irrelevant jokes. The downvote brigading and banding together to get you banned. This exact thing has happened to me on Lemmy, that I had to leave because the toxicity was gradually building.
We should reject Reddit toxicity in general, tell them they don’t have a place here or anywhere. They know where they can dump their shit in, but they feel that because they’ve made mountains of it, that they’ve got to come over to other places and do it all over again.
I left Reddit because the toxicity levels have gotten unbearable. I really am yearning for a place where I can talk in and not be antagonized. I’m sure others are too.
When it got to the final days of reddit I began very liberally blocking people who respond with general negativity.
Might have to start back up.
Discourse? Disagreements? Discussion? Fine. But just being a dick? Nah, I don’t need your opinions on anything, really.
That’s how it’s been in my experience. The blocking ratio just amped up more than engaging. This whole thread is probably the most invested I’ve ever gotten in a long time, probably just out of morbid curiosity meets trying to find an understanding in something I already know what to expect based on previous experiences. Otherwise, the blocks have been trickling more now. Anytime I start having to have block parades on any platform, I just know that my experience on any platform is going to be limited.
People just suck at being rational people.
My recent comment history is one with obvious brigading.
A user by the name of CarlsMarks going around pretentiously presuming people are unfamiliar with Karl Marx.
Just not the energy I’m looking for.