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Lemmy can feel unwelcoming at times (self.vent)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by x4740N to c/vent

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People say lemmy isnt as toxic as reddit and while i feel thats partially true i also feel its partially not

if you have the best of intentions but the group or user circles dont think so then you are turned away

I recently shared a video in a post that in my opinion contains feedback that could be beneficial to open source, met with mostly hostility on that post when i only wanted to share that video to help open source

and then there is the toxicity of some groups on lemmy, im left wing because i think everyone should be equal and the world should be free from bigotry and intolerance but some of the left wing comments on lemmy read as toxic and i feel like I'm a person who wants better in the world but I'm excluded from other left wing people because of the toxicity

it makes me feel i have the be careful on lemmy with what i say and cant give good intentioned feedback or criticism to other users because it'll just be met with hostility if the group / user circle/s doesn't like it or be misinterpreted as an attack

all of that can feel very unwelcoming me at times

sorry if this doesn't come across as clear, its just that i suck at writing "high quality posts / comments" and i wanted to get emotion to text and vent

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[–] Dkarma 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It always blows my mind when people don't realize that public forums are largely representative of...the public.

"Group think" is just an excuse for "I can't admit my thoughts about (x) are wrong / idiotic/ insulting.

Conservatives usually parrot this when claiming how "liberal" reddit is. That's how you can usually tell the loonies.

[–] x4740N 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It always blows my mind when people don’t realize that public forums are largely representative of…the public.

Yeah i guess it's representative of its toxicity

I want the equality of everyone to be taken seriously and not have groups be excluded in the name of equality and i want the world free of bigotry, intolerance and those who preach intolerance but the toxicity of some of the lemmy comments i have seen feels highly exclusionary and hostile

lemmy users seem to mostly go after and attack groups of people rather than working with those groups to weed out and get rid of the bad actors, its just straight to attacking entire groups and creating a toxic unwelcoming atmosphere and to clarify I'm not talking about groups that are inherently evil like conservatives or genocidal groups

We're all humans and all humans deserve the right to equality and a world without bigotry and intolerance, yet the toxicity I've seem on lemmy seems to go against that