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Have you had any bad experiences with people on Lemmy? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I "surprisingly haven't found any bigotry."

I'm wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it's rare, my guess is that even though it's decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I'm guessing it's easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.

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[+] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how your experience differs from mine, being on an instance with no downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha. I haven't been in the loop with beehaw and shitjustworks and everything like that, but I could picture that kind of drama happening.

The Threads stuff is also hella wack, people seem to have a ton of heavy opinions about it.

I do think the ability to filter different communities and stuff out is really valuable. I've had a few friends who (understandably) had pretty negative opinions on Reddit long before the API stuff, but I think a big part that they missed is how easily you could curate your Reddit feed, which made my experience much better. I did delete my Reddit account, but I wouldn't find it unreasonable to believe that Reddit's fairly the same way it was before the protest since lots of people still stick around and are just casual users who don't care too much (and I don't really blame them haha).