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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[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Think of it like email (lists). There can be a !fuckcars@lemmy.world and a !fuckcars@lemmy.ml (the latter doesn't exist, but it could)

You can access both communities, subscribe to both and post to both. Their content is (mostly) identical, the only difference is who's hosting it.

There is no central authority determining the rules. For instance, Reddit can ban whatever they like and allow whatever they like. That's not how it works here. The only rules are what each community decides are their own rules. Certain communities, such as !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com no longer exist in some sort of tolerated limbo, unlike on Reddit where they could be shut down at a moment's notice.

[–] Nipplecreek@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh that's kinda neat. Do you have any suggestions for which you prefer or which most people like?

[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, since !fuckcars@lemmy.ml doesn't exist, I prefer the one that does.

Usually, if there are multiple communities one is significantly more active than the others. For cats, check out these three

Only the last one is what I'd deem active.