Has anyone else noticed this, across the fediverse, Lemmy specifically. A lot of new users, but also a lot of first posts that are very inflammatory/rage baity.

Do we have another legit influx of new users? Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot? Or maybe I'm imagining it.

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[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As a fairly new user to lemmy I have found that the community can be pretty brutal and there are quite a lot of set things that are frowned upon. Windows always gets a lot of abuse, but for me here in the UK the amount of Mac and Linux users is miniscule, for example... yet Windows is frowned upon greatly. Sp whilst not raging, it is deffo anti a fair few things. I know it is to be expected as it is a fairly technical things to use lemmy/piefed/fediverse but it still makes me wince. Like everything these days, the less passionate just don't post any more so it does bring out some strong responses

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 points 2 days ago

I've been in the nerdy tech space for decades now and I will never understand how these people expect things like Linux to take charge while they're also being the most gatekeepy and arrogant people. Sure, I'd love folks to try it out, but I'm not going to demonize them either for not. I also have done tech support and there are the people where I just say "Nope, get a mac" because otherwise I will be the person that they go and demand free support from every week.

There's passion, but then there's a line that is too often crossed that goes into ego and selfishness, and I think Lemmy just breeds that.