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While I had this issue a whole year ago, it's intensified a lot these last weeks: People just don't want to lurk and understand the place. I see people calling communities "subreddits", not reading the rules or basic purpose of the site before signing up and posting and complaining when they get banned, someone asking completely off-topic things in /c/linux, people reacting to titles and not reading the post, people commenting without reading other comments. Especially people coming from popular subreddits and streams where being perfectly redundant is acceptable. If you agree with something and have nothing valuable to add, use the voting instead of burying everything by reposting the same thing twice! That, and the extra aggression we've seen, especially with people getting culture shock from the politics but just in general.
It's a general attitude of arrogance or uncurious ignorance and it's hard not to be offended, especially when some of us came here, in part, to get away from that culture.
Also, the normalization of pro-capitalist attitudes is a huge bummer. A non-trivial chunk of people trying to rationalize Reddit's actions as 'just a bad CEO' is unfortunate to see, that narrow-sighted denial of systematic factors and of what makes this ecosystem act differently, it's unfortunate especially on lemmy.ml which until recently was explicitly anticapitalist.
Again, this isn't completely new, but it's suddenly become a huge issue which may no longer be manageable without either mass action calling out inconsiderate attitudes, or harsh moderation.
Do you think open source and free information for all mindsets can't also believe in capitalism? If lemmy.ml was explicitly anticapitalist but they lost their identity due to the flood of new users like me then that's regretable, but I wonder if you just don't want capitalists on decentralized services or not.
I think they were lamenting the fact that people don't seem to recognize why capitalism's inherent forces tend to cause enshittification of services. That it's not just a bad CEO that causes this but the inevitable squeeze that will happens where user good-will is exchanged for money. This is why hopping from privately owned central service to another will not solve that problem.. but decentralized services that are not owned by any single agent (and therefore can't be bought, can't be turned into value for investors) can resist it.
It's good to see people here, good to see people protesting and taking control. So, I welcome you (if that amounts to anything :D) However, I wish people also take stock and ponder why social media service after another turns into crap.. :)