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It’s early, yet. There’s still plenty of time for it to turn into a shit show. It’s happened in every corner of the Internet from the earliest of days.
What we can do is to carry on this positive approach and do our best to support the owners, admins and mods that encourage good behavior and dissuade the bad.
I’ll do the best I can.
You're right - eventually it might turn as bad as Reddit. Or even worse.
But "it might". We're still seeing how things turn out in the long run. And I apologise for the idiotic (from my part) wishful belief, but I really hope that it stays as wholesome in the future as it is now.
I‘ve seen some stuff I dislike on here too, but I figure that is normal in any place many people congregate. I like the overall small and friendly vibe though and ofc the freedom from the whims of spez.
I hear you! I've really been blind to how toxic Reddit is. Its night and day!
That’s already happened on Lemmy to me, today.
By "that", do you mean the struggle to work around disingenuous/dumb posters, or do you mean polite disagreements?
Mainly the "unwarranted assumptions" bullet point. I mentioned in a comment here how reddit helped pull me to the left, politically, and someone responded with something like "so if it weren't for a reddit you'd be a nazi?"
The red scare never stopped.
My bets are that the only lemmy instances in the not so distant future to maintain sanity are going to be the ones that federate with lemmygrad and enforce heavy moderation.
People from the future, ping me if I was wrong. (I hope I don't have to edit this post)