Unpopular Opinion

People are people, wherever you go. People are flawed. There are many good reasons to leave reddit for lemmy.

It’s really cool how you can get downvoted here for saying genocide is bad.

A sizable chunk of lemmings are people banned from Reddit for one reason or another.

Because of the federated way lemmy works it's incredibly easy for toxic users to migrate and continue being a nuisance.

Less bots, more tankies.

I'm not sure which is worse.

But you're saying it's better. :P

I've only encountered the occasional RWNJ that gets banned quickly on Lemmy's various communities. There's still a strong contingent of neo-liberals here because Reddit is hostile to anyone not far right enough. I usually label them if I think they might have a modicum to discuss or label then mute them so I know what for.

I question what sensitive inquiries you make exactly.

The caveat if you run into nothing but assholes rule also applies. I only show hostility if someone does first or they're evident arguing in bad faith or keep pushing a flawed opinion. On Reddit, you could say "I like pancakes" and get even the pancake lovers mad at you for not liking waffles enough.

Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent.

This just screams mott and bailey fallacy. It is very reminiscent, for example, of transphobes complaining that they get attacked for having the gall of claiming "sex is real". And that's basically what happened here. You said some upsetting shitty things in the thread about the two child policy, and now you're whining about people getting upset about it. Go touch some grass.

To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.

Yep, they can get awfully histrionic, prematurely judgmental, self-indulgent with the recreational outrage, vainly uncritical in their ideological thinking, and generally unchill. Nonetheless, it beats dealing with Reddit's opaque & hostile moderator system.

If you use the word toxic, you’re probably the problem. You might be more comfortable on Reddit

I am going to push back a bit here, I've never been banned on Lemmy.... Reddit permabanned me 3 or 4 years ago, then lost so many users they unbanned my account randomly.

Just the fact that your comments and posts aren't nuked by mods and admins for existing is what puts lemmy well above any popular social media platform.

I think the average user is still wayyyyyy better than reddit because you will actually get a decent chunk of normal responses here, as opposed to an entire thread being filled with completely useless text or karma farming addicts.

And thanks to federation, if you ever do find yourself in a dumb instance like hexbear or feddit (lol), you can just swap to a new instance with no problem, and often users will naturally follow to the better instances where you don't have content censorship .

Idk I kinda like it here. Everybody uses linux in this place.

If you want to have a really bad opinion on people in general, engage with them on social media.

I disagree, Karl. Zionists are out of effing control on reddit today, and they pollute threads with denials of whats clearly shown in the news, or else make wild claims without evidence.

You are of course, wle come to your opinion, but what you are saying makes no sense to me.

It's just another bubble. Choose the bubble that fits you.

I think you're missing the point.

People are people everywhere you go. Nowhere is free of people unless you want to be by yourself.

Lemmy and the Fediverse is not about only being around people that are exactly perfect for you to associate with.

It's about not giving your thoughts, your mental energy, and your time to build an empire for someone else to profit off of.

I'm doing my part!

PSA: you can block users. Don't be afraid to do it. There's nothing you can say that will convince flat earthers or similar stupid people.

Hell is other people.