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[–] TurboDiesel 280 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (36 children)

Lemmy isn't "too extreme," a very small subset of Lemmings are just fucking insufferable.

[–] clearedtoland 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

…have these people met certain redditors? 🧐

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm still figuring out if I can just straight up block people from certain servers

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can with the next Lemmy update (devs say it's coming in a month or so).

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

Some apps let you block instances.

[–] Bassman1805 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's just a symptom of "people".

[–] ignotum 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Eldritch 4 points 1 year ago

I see Roy I upvote

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[–] foggy 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

I mean, tankies are kinda worse.

Edit: seems this post is controversial! Let me clarify.

Tankies are definitely worse. 🥂

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[–] saltesc 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a lot of political and other "adult" discourse. Not extreme, but more exhausting for a person wanting memes, gifs, and lols. I imagine the median age here is higher than that of Reddit. Can't confirm, but it certainly conducts itself with less..."juvenility"...or some word.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I find the political discourse, at least on some topics, very juvenile on Lemmy. You know, screeching about how billionaires aren't people but parasites and need to die, hundreds of upvotes. That's some edgy, frustrated teenager bullshit. Or at least it should be, guess some people never got the memo about inalienable rights, equal treatment, vigilantism and how two wrongs don't make a right.

Seriously, this thirst for blood is disturbing and if it isn't just venting then, well, look how the French Revolution turned on people. That wasn't very poggers.

There's also this idea that everybody who isn't 100% on board needs to be defooed and marked, preferably as a fascist. Which plays into the hands of the actual fascists because the non-fascists hate each other too much to collectively tell them to fuck off, despite their differences.

There, that's my venting done for today.

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