this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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I think there is some valid complaints to be had against being swarmed by fanatics on Lemmy but there is no way it’s more toxic than Reddit. For the most part I’d say the community is very much the same between the major Lemmy instances and Reddit. Just with more FOSS evangelism and Linux love.
The issue is smaller communities. All my hobbies have small Lemmy communities… with either 2 subscribers or posts that are months old.
And on Reddit smaller communities are VERY nice. It’s the big subs that are filled with edgy teens trying to out meme each others.
and leftism tbh edit: i know you guys all gonna downvote lol. dgaf
I’d say that Reddit was the exact amount of leftism. Just with more “orange man bad” in addition to the anti work/late stage capitalism bend as Reddit is more USA-centric
In my experience Reddit users at least tried to hide their blatant racism/sexism/homophobia.
On the other hand, I've never seen so many people calling others racists, sexists or homophobes ever before than on Lemmy. It's almost as if there is a group of people who see those things everywhere, even when it's not actually there.
I have seen zero comments where this is actually occurring but I've seen lots of comments where people are accusing someone of being those things.
I think it's the same reason some women starts to hate all men - they can't separate the good ones from the bad ones anymore and they just start hating an entire gender.