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Oh man, sorry you went through that. They try to 'dunk' on me quite often, but it always backfires on them, funnily enough. Never had any of them actually confront me. Too scared, I suppose.
Meh, I'm not worried about myself, so much as whether the Fediverse itself will survive. Every single person that I've recommended it to irl comes back in our next encounter with how much politically extremist - and violent - rhetoric is used. Chapotraphouse is the least of the Fediverse's troubles, though it too is one of them.
Overall though they seem connected: not wanting to defederate from either lemmy.ml with its constant calls for guillotines (I mean... not that I don't understand the reason for such:-) or from hexbear.net, mainstream users are being turned away.
And since like 90% of Fediverse content is made by a couple handfuls of people, I do worry about our long-term sustainability. Oh well.
If I hadn't found a way to block Hexbear I'd have been gone. It took me about 2 weeks to realize the users that were the most insufferable to me were largely all from there, and I was a hair from quitting Lemmy because of it. So, for me at least you have it exactly right.
Same - and also Lemmygrad.ml, both of which I replied to someone and then had to endure WEEKS and WEEKS (each) of replies of a ridiculous nature. Like who would send someone tens and tens and tens of replies, WEEKS later, who is acting in good faith? Obviously that is a "dunking", done for their emotional benefit, rather than an attempt to actually change my mind. Well they did manage to change my mind though... about them.:-)
And that started me thinking that if Lemmy was going to be just exactly like Reddit, then I wanted no part of it... and I too came within a hairsbreadth of quitting it, before I realized that I could just block the worst of it and then the rest of the content here is actually pretty great.
So now I don't blame new people who don't know that - how would/could they? If we allow each new person to be hazed like that as they enter, then we have no basis for complaining later on when nobody wants to come back.