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I read your comment thread this morning and it's been bouncing around my head all day. I agree with you, and there's something I can't quite put my finger on about how everything online is so serious and black and white. If you do something wrong you're evil incarnate and you deserve instant excommunication.
Your comment being so heavily downvoted is a good example. I think your stance is the most reasonable, and I think if this all played out in the real world you'd have a vast majority of people agreeing with you. But for some reason once it's on the internet you're unanimously wrong and it's not up for discussion.
I've been on the wrong side of an "am I the asshole" post one time and it was bizarre seeing the anger of people on the internet compared to the relaxed opinions of real people that heard the story. I wish there was a term for this phenomenon because I see it everywhere. Terminally online people who can't just see nuance and realise that we all do stupid shit.
I don't really have a point but I thought I'd let you know you inspired some thought in a single person from the void.
There's certain topics that seem to instigate this kind of polarisation. Racism being one of them. I posted my comment with the intention to not talk about racism, but talk about teenagers being stupid. That was my naivety, I see that now. Another topic I avoid most of the time are discussions about gender and sexuality and of course politics, but sometimes I can't help myself and I mingle in these discussions against my better judgement. I try to thread carefully but often burn myself regardless.
I'm clearly a brutal racist, according to the downvotes. I'm also clearly a nazi and an American liberal. And I'm also a bad parent who'll never speak to their children again when they grow old enough to leave the house. I think maybe the size of Lemmy makes the extremes more obvious, because there is no separate areas for different groups of people. They all come together in the same places. Also maybe it's the kinds of people that get drawn to places like this, it's not mainstream, so casual Internet users don't find their way here, you'll have to be a techy or a "terminally online" person, as you put it so nicely.
I don't take all these people all to serious though. I'm fortunate enough to have an active life that gets me out into the real world a lot. I've learned a lot of life by just living it. There's many parts of life I don't get to experience or understand though, but it seems like this isn't the place to get to know them.
Maybe it's best if I just stick to the memes and the star trek and get my news feed from a different source.
I'm the same, I have an active life and don't take it seriously. I find it easier on Lemmy because you can put it down to a crazy instance and you can't see your overall upvotes so nothing matters! Me and my friends enjoy going back to my AITAH post to laugh at the insanity of online people, it makes a great party story. Keep posting sense!