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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[–] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Downvotes mean literally nothing here, even more so than Reddit. So I'd say don't be discouraged. And if nobody ever disagrees with you in life, you are doing something wrong.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Downvotes mean your comment is more likely to get removed by a mod, and you're more likely to get banned.