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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[–] Redredme@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"eat the rich" "destroy the institutions"

Etc.. That's not left. Insinuating killing it destroying societies is, by definition, anarchist.

Socialism, Communism are about change, not control or jealousy.

[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 7 points 1 year ago

I don't think you understand anarchism.

[–] Rottcodd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No - anarchism, by definition, is the complete absence of institutionalized authority.

Those around here who are calling for the destruction of institutions have no intention of creating a society free from the hierarchy of authority - they want to destroy the current authority merely so that they can replace it with their own.

Again, they're about as far as it's possible to get from being anarchists. They're as authoritarian as fascists - they just have a different set of norms they want to forcibly impose, and a different set of people they're eager to oppress and murder along the way.