Is it just me, or have the comments on Lemmy become extra aggressive over the past 3 months?

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?

CosmicCleric ,
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Conflict bots?

willya ,
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It comes in waves. I don’t like the overly sensitive crap either though.

Pounddc1 ,

HMU on telegram if you got verified Id.me let hit $100k upwards and split @pounddc1

remus989 ,

I’ve noticed the comments becoming more and more hostile and a lot more argument than discussion recently.

Omega_Haxors ,

Oh dear day three and this thread is still going and doubling in size.

ikidd ,
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Now you’ve made an enemy for life, buddy.

Hestia ,

The enemy of my enemy… also enemy.

wtry ,

Sorry guys, I got mad

CannotSleep420 ,

I haven’t noticed a change, but I also haven’t ventured outside of the echo chamber/hug box of my subscribed communities feed.

RatzChatsubo ,

I blame politics

sailingbythelee ,

The subject of the arguments is certainly politics (and war and religion), but the source of the arguments is strongly differing world views.

Despite what we’d like to believe about ourselves, humans are not well-adapted to being exposed to a wide variety of differing viewpoints. We evolved in small, racially and socially homogenous groups, for the most part. Up until the Industrial Revolution, the vast majority of humanity lived and died within 30 miles of where they were born, and only had daily interaction with what was essentially an extended family.

Travel, mass immigration, and the Internet changed all that. Being exposed to such a diversity of opinion on a daily basis quite simply breaks our brains. It causes a tremendous amount of internal conflict and stress, for some more than others. That constant strain becomes more intense when there is war, such as in Gaza and Ukraine, or particularly divisive politics. There are obviously some extremely contentious elections coming up, including the US election, which has tremendous global implications. There are, no doubt, people on Lemmy right now for whom the result of the US election is a matter of life and death, and yet they aren’t US citizens and can’t vote.

We should all take a chill pill and try to be less confrontational and use less emotionally-charged language when it comes to hot button issues. The politics and news subs are an avalanche of charged words and phrases like genocide, fascist, apartheid, Nazi, racist, transphobic, anti-gay, religious zealot, and many others. Those are fighting words. Deserved or not, words like that not only reflect, but also create, a lot of emotional dissonance and stress, which lead to emotionally charged arguments.

ook_the_librarian ,
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I blame someone else

paraphrand ,

Many will tell you this is normal and just how the internet is.

How depressing.

robocall ,

My suspicion is that a lot of redditors migrated over here about 7 months ago when certain apps shut down, including myself. At first, they were polite in an unfamiliar environment, but they’ve grown comfortable and act out, or speak less thoughtfully, like they originally did on Reddit.

Porokoro ,

This place has always been a shithole. It has been months since I’ve been on here and this place is still as mind numbingly stupid as ever. The userbase is 40% brain dead Marxists who are vile and hostile, 30% insufferable tech bros who spam the same posts and articles day after day, and 30% annoying Redditors that made Reddit annoying who decided to migrate over.

There was a brief period of time over last summer when the Reddit meltdown was still fresh where this place saw a surge of normal people posting normal content, but the newness of this site faded and most people went back to reddit where is actual content, thus leaving the extremists and spammers who would’ve been banned on there anyway.

gapbetweenus ,

Found the guy responsible.

Porokoro ,

What I said is true

gapbetweenus ,

Yeah, you are definitely contributing to the negativity. That is also true.

Porokoro ,

Okay, cry about it

gapbetweenus ,

Thanks, for making my point for me.

Porokoro ,

You’re welcome

gapbetweenus ,

See, not so difficult to be a good, polite boy. Have a treat.

rabiddolphin ,
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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/df0845cd-7638-4294-988b-5aa7c872eaa9.webp

I’ll downvote all of you

NotJustForMe ,

I would guess that many people came here for that reason. On Reddit, keeping etiquette has become more important than contents. Having your post deleted because of noninclusive language or harsh tone, that’s not fun. Having to write “in my opinion” before any relevant sentence is also annoying. Of course, it is. It’s always opinions.

Bunch of pansies with keyboards, as some would say.

It might be partly that. And have you seen how neighbors talk to each other?

I try to concentrate on the content, and I always keep in mind that the author might be in a hurry, is having a bad day or whatever. It’s rarely personal.

Renacles ,

That’s not the Reddit I remember

lseif ,

thats something a complete idiot would say

lemmy ,
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