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I hope so too. I stopped commenting on reddit a while back because it was just such an unenjoyable, unrewarding experience. Felt like users just got their dopamine by being contrarian about anything and everything.
Those users will come here. Best thing we can do is not engage. Just downvote, block, and delete those people from your memory. They aren't worth your energy. Embrace the amiable community instead.
Some of those users will come, but I doubt they'd want to stay on here for long. Many are turned off by the decentralized organization of Lemmy; they'll probably just return to Reddit or go somewhere else to rant.
I might end up going with both places in the end. Here is nice, but certain niches of mine work better with the established subreddits for them. But I'll post/comment here simply because it will be nice when this place does become decently active.
I really like the sense of optimism and camaraderie here. I hope it lasts! I hated posting and commenting on Reddit because people there are downright vitriolic.
Wait till it gets more popular
I honestly doubt it will get anywhere near as bad as Reddit was. The majority of their users are going to continue on Redditing unless the site actually shuts down. Many many people simply don't care about the way the company runs, they just load up the 1st party app and read the r/All page.
Yeah, I agree I like the vibe here. And now I'm a decade older than I was when I started reddit so it feels like I'm coming here with a different attitude. On reddit I mostly lurked -- by the time I'd get to a thread there would be so many comments I didn't really have anything to add anyway.
Yeah I like the sense of optimism on here. It likely won't last because humans gonna human, but I'm enjoying it while I can.
Maybe this is a good way of having a clean start
I learnt over time that such aggressive comments or patterns are just waiting for a reaction, so i just try to ignore them. Not giving into anger in those situations and just letting it go is what should help to limit those behaviours. Btw, did you remember the "don't feed the trolls" banner in old school forums...or the "low quality bait" meme. Yeah, irony should also help dealing with it..
Me too. I'm trying to turn over a new leaf. New platform, new me.
I totally agree. I've only made one combative comment, and it was on an exceptionally hot take from a conservative community that was on the All section. The OP was downvoted to oblivion and was a mod of the community, so they were just deleting comments left and right that disagreed with them.
I think all the threads here being much smaller right now kinda helps with this. It was really the bigger subreddits that had this problem, and specific ones flat out wanted that type of arguments (see like r/publicfreakout or r/fauxmoi or something).
This sub over on reddit was always quite chill and relaxed, and it was nice reading through and commenting with people who genuinely just wanted to talk.
