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I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 1 year ago by LemmyBe to c/showerthoughts
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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] soulifix 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

For the most part, yes. But I have noted lately that I do get some snarky people coming in with dishonest and bad faith responses. They're at least not as rampant as it would've been on Reddit. It's discouraging and demoralizing when you've got, what feels like, 100 people downvoting you to hell and 50 of them are swiping at you before deleting their accounts and doing it again because they're of the tribal mindset and you've somehow offended a part of the hive.

[–] Gorbachof 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I get a lot of that from the .ml instance users

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like sounds of the content from .ml but I safe quite a few of the users share a really toxic mindset.

It's irksome because they are supposed to be leftists and promoting how good communism or socialism can be which seems really at odds with how they speak and act.

[–] Skellybones 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They feel Morley Justified to be rude.

It's either your with them or against

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

Yeah, reminds me of a post they did where the question is what issue do you have with leftism. I explained and got downvoted for it. I was even polite

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