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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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I'm on sh.itjust.works but I can search lemmy.world. i was active on mech advice on Reddit before coming over here and have looked for it a few times. Even now, though, I searched for it right before I took the direct link to the community and got nothing. It's just weird.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Your instance probably simply doesnt know that this community exist. You cant magically see all communities on a different instance you're federated with.

It's one of the problems of activitypub right now.

[–] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured you could! That is strange. I searched it just now and got it, the only difference I can think of other than being on sh.itjust.works would maybe be the app you're using? I'm not savvy enough to have much of a guess tbh but it would be nice if people could find us!

I know I was bummed out when I couldn't find a community for it, one of the biggest miffs I had about leaving Reddit!

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That's my guess, either federation or app. Hopefully it doesn't affect a lot of other people!