Eleazar

Actively seeking depressing content is a sure-fire way to stay depressed. What kind of sad circlejerk is this place?

Get help. Outside of the internet, if possible. You deserve better.

Remember when Velma pissed everyone off equally and there was a brief moment of bipartisan unity? That was fun.

Agreed on all fronts and the one dude theory is certainly possible, although the flood of hateful comments was jarring. Karma has never mattered to me but -305 overnight was nothing short of impressive.

I came to Lemmy expecting better honestly but so far my experience has been a more volatile version of Reddit. You’re right though, it’s an interesting frontier. I hope more rational “free-speech within reason” instances pop-up at some point because so far the ones I’ve heard of were defederated from popular ones.

I wonder if kbin is any better.

I just got railed in a shitpost community for being a gay Christian and discussing my views honestly. It got so bad people were implying I said stuff I didn’t lmao.

I mentioned the people who protest pride with hate signs and megaphones and someone tried to turn it around and say I was calling gay people bigots. I replied saying they misunderstood me and explained what I meant and they were upvoted and I was downvoted.

It was so unhinged a mod basically stepped in saying they wouldn’t remove all the comments harassing me because apparently they were being “civil” but imo it was far a far cry from civil at all.

So here I am now with the app I’m using saying my comment “karma” totals -305, not that I care. But Lemmy users are absolutely mental, even when compared to Redditors because at least Reddit enforces its rules.

That isn’t nuance, it’s unhinged rambling about stuff I never said, at all. I especially didn’t “cast stones on the queers”. I’m gay, I wouldn’t do that. I cherish gay rights and gay marriage deeply.

I also don’t think sexual or gender identity, or religion, is a baseline for someone doing something that horrible.

That’s fair. At the time I was taking some of it personal but I shouldn’t. People are entitled to their opinions and I respect that.