I like a lot of the communities on that instance, but every once in a while I just get hit with a random wave of toxicity by them for no reason. For example, there was a post asking which communities from Reddit do you wish existed on Lemmy, and I answered honestly saying more car related communities as they are one of my hobbies, and I got severely downvoted and got replied to with "there is a FuckCars community" There are other times in the past where something similar happened in a lemmy.ml community, where I said something that was 100% non-offensive, non-argumentative, and non-political but got mass down voted for no reason. I have not had this problem anywhere else however. Does anyone else have a similar experience or no?

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[–] gullible@kbin.social 47 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I apologize to everyone I’m about to insult but lemmy users generally behave like redditors. People generally don’t write comments with relevant information in order to have them passed over. It can be frustrating, especially when the rest of the comments are repeated jokes or could be summarized as alternative articulations of “this.”

[–] 5BC2E7@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Yes. unfortunately the behavior modification sticks with them. I recall seeing some submissions with pictures of text as well 🙄

[–] OrangeJoe@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, there's one key difference between lemmy users and Reddit users. They behave mostly the same, but there is also a sense of superiority where they just think they know better because of the platform they choose to use.

[–] Akrenion@programming.dev 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That is true for reddit and lemmy. No difference really.

[–] ComradeSpood@lemmyunchained.net 9 points 11 months ago

Redditors think they're better than everyone else. Lemmy users think they're better than Redditors and everyone else. Lemmy users are one step higher on the superiority complex totem pole