The same assholes who were on Reddit being pieces of shit are here too.
It's the internet, everything is reduced to being shitty within weeks of getting noticed.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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Anecdotally, I’ve seen more spam lately too.
Btw, what are we calling aggressive chat bots? Auto-trolls? Strife bots? Contentionator-3000s?
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I'll downvote all of you
The number of trolls is going to increase as the user base increases.
Plus, you get the same negative effects of the echo chambers like Reddit did, but I think the communities being so small amplifies the effect.
People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor.
You should ask a police officer how some neighbours talk to each other...
I posted a cookie recipe in response to a cookie meme, got roasted for not converting baking units to science units. So yeah, people are getting kinda aggressive.
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Never forget the way the human brain works, with the more common interpretation being: "it takes 7 instances of positive things to outweigh 1 negative."
For my part I haven't really noticed any difference, but I only infrequently comment!
Many will tell you this is normal and just how the internet is.
How depressing.
Yeah, I feel the comments are getting worse as well, though from seeing the upvote numbers and less tankies/hexbears, I'm guessing some old folks are leaving and new people are joining. Guess it's only natural.
I blocked hexbear not because of their political beliefs, but because they would fucking ruin entire content sections by being super annoying.
I'm also glad to see your comment not triggering the same brigading behavior I used to see a lot more often.
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The halcyon days of Lemmy lasted a week or so. As soon as you have mods coming over for Reddit you have all the shit they are schlepoed along with them. I’m only in here when I’m shitting and then only because I’ve memorised the blurb on the back of the air freshener can already.
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I honestly haven't noticed any changes. 2 months after the rexodus and the honeymoon phase ended, things stabilized. Some drama with tankies but not much else. People here are just as generally rude or kind as they’ve ever been.
I've said it before, Lemmy is a fickle place.
I expect it will get better with time as we get more users.