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I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

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[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Comming from Reddit, I find it really peaceful, but IDK how it was before. Except for the people at Hexbear who bullied me for liking South Park. The socalled "dirtbag left" is basically the proudboys pretending to be far-left.

[–] Neil@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago

It's never a bad idea to instance block them. They'll endlessly bully you and gang up like a bunch of school children. The only thing that stops it is to stop responding.

[–] ComradePupIvy@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I do not know what you are talking about, you were the one who came put swinging, they reacted like I would expect,

Also proudboys are Fash, guess who is the most anti-fash

Also ypur political annalisis seems to go from "is like trump suporter" to "Is like proudboy" not very nuanced

P.S. I only found this because I had to track down said hexbear post because of the smearing you do with it while convenently not linking it... so for context https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/3197853, it was not for "simply liking southpark"

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Liberals just can’t fathom the possibility that socialists walk among us, therefore they must be cryptofascists or paid shills of foreign States.

I assure you that we have been here all along, despite two red scares and a cold war to try to purge us.

It’s pretty insulting, considering that American socialists helped bring about the weekend and the eight hour workday.

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are socialists, and then there is a fairly new wave of terminally online toxic assholes borrowing socialist rhetoric.

There is a difference between activism and empty virtue signaling. A huge portion of the online left is more interested in letting everyone know how pissed off they are than actually making the cultural gains necessary to improve anything.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plus they think the stupidest shit matters.

Earlier I saw people complaining about the Hogwarts game because of JK Rowling. Yeah, don't play the videogame based on the book series that was written by a transphobe. Cause somehow that means the videogame and it's developers are all transphobic too?

Someone should tell them transphobic people breathe oxygen, maybe they'll suffocate themselves as activism.

[–] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean I boycott products if I don't agree where the money is going. Nestle, Amazon, Israel (BDS), etc etc. Everyone who has the capacity should at the very least try to avoid funding people and projects they think are detrimental to life.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How much of the revenue is actually going to Rowling for the product?

I have no idea or interest in finding out, but it isn't zero

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's people who are constructive and try to be polite who have different world views, and then there's the people who just insult and spam racial slurs. The second category gets a block on offending users and a block on an entire community if it's repeated