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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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[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Marked spoiler for potential vibe harshing

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It might be a mix of a lot of things. The Palestinian Genocide, Ukrainian War, Chinese Expansion, actual probable chance of a second Trump Presidency, and a great many other issues are probably weighing heavy on the minds of net denizens. That and less sunlight than in the summer months.

Plus I've never seen any posts from a Foodporn or cute pets lemmy community, but I have seen crimes against the culinary arts and some posts about pets that have died.

People are just not feeling optimistic, and that leads to feelings of repression and anger.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The superb owl community is pretty great for cute animals

[–] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It really is. And, the Flammulated beat the Great Horned in a complete upset during the community-wide poll! 🤩🤘🏼

[–] snek@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The spoiler block doesn't work on Sync it seems, unless you used the wrong >!spoiler tags!<. I wonder if it was the full stop or it being broken over several lines.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

Seems like Sync only understands one-line spoilers, so you need each line in a separate spoiler

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I definitely haven't used the wrong tags because my instance formatted it for me when I selected the text and clicked the spoiler button above the text box. I'm sorry yours uses a different format or that your reader/viewer application doesn't support it.

[–] snek@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Weird, I did the same from the editor. it works for me on Sync bot not on lemmy.world on web /: Guess they need to sync these, otherwise we'll have spoilers floating around everywhere in the face of unsuspecting readers