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Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Liberals just can’t fathom the possibility that socialists walk among us, therefore they must be cryptofascists or paid shills of foreign States.

I assure you that we have been here all along, despite two red scares and a cold war to try to purge us.

It’s pretty insulting, considering that American socialists helped bring about the weekend and the eight hour workday.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are socialists, and then there is a fairly new wave of terminally online toxic assholes borrowing socialist rhetoric.

There is a difference between activism and empty virtue signaling. A huge portion of the online left is more interested in letting everyone know how pissed off they are than actually making the cultural gains necessary to improve anything.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plus they think the stupidest shit matters.

Earlier I saw people complaining about the Hogwarts game because of JK Rowling. Yeah, don't play the videogame based on the book series that was written by a transphobe. Cause somehow that means the videogame and it's developers are all transphobic too?

Someone should tell them transphobic people breathe oxygen, maybe they'll suffocate themselves as activism.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean I boycott products if I don't agree where the money is going. Nestle, Amazon, Israel (BDS), etc etc. Everyone who has the capacity should at the very least try to avoid funding people and projects they think are detrimental to life.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How much of the revenue is actually going to Rowling for the product?

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago

I have no idea or interest in finding out, but it isn't zero

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's people who are constructive and try to be polite who have different world views, and then there's the people who just insult and spam racial slurs. The second category gets a block on offending users and a block on an entire community if it's repeated