It feels like people are a lot nicer here than on Twitter and Reddit, and even when people disagree, it’s generally civil and not an all-out flame war. Also, there’s no algorithm promoting outrage all the time.
For me, the anticipation of toxicity was a huge deterrent for me ever participating in real discussions, but here I feel like I can be myself.
I think it’s healthier this way.
Yeah I’ve had the misfortune of expressing the wrong opinion on a politics community. It was about as toxic as any r/Politics submission, including someone telling me to kill myself.
I’ve taken to just auto blocking anything to do with politics on Lemmy now. The beliefs on here are more radicalized than Reddit, and I thought they were bad.
This is probably a good idea. I did the same on Reddit. Some people just want to be toxic. I’m just disappointed to realise it wasn’t Reddit causing the toxicity. It’s the users, and they’re here too.
You downplayed the current laws against LGBT+ people and climate change, so I’m not sure why you are surprised you were downvoted. That’s misinformation not “just your opinion man”
Having skimmed over their posts, while I also don’t tend to agree with their views, nor the spreading of misinformation, that doesn’t justify anyone telling them to off themselves. Hopefully they reported that person, as that shouldn’t be tolerated in any instance/community imo.
Agreed. Big difference you pointed out here.