Truly a pretty terrible place for any kind of social activity.

People here are super self righteous and unwavering in their beliefs, quick to insult others and be generally bitchy, pedantic and quick to dogpile. Worst of all while still usually slightly wrong about a thing, but unwilling to hear it.

It’s basically the worst parts of reddit users where we have boiled it down to the most affluent or socially insecure.

Even if it’s as simple as a question people jump to defend their position with insults rather than answer it cause they get worried the person might be confused and it’s best to just make sure it’s a closed community as quick as possible.

This isn’t an open community it’s a private gated one where everyone jumped the fence and is scared that the wrong person might have come in with them.

Condescending is not welcoming.
Upvoting cause they are your in group isn’t community.
Berating outcasts cause you at least don’t feel like them is still bullying.

  • Blaze (he/him)English
    7•12 hours ago

    For some reason reddit keeps failing upwards and we’re not getting the influx of users I was hoping for.

    Inertia is directly related to how big their userbase is. And they pretty much killed all the text-based discussion forums.

    So I’m not hopeful we’ll get another influx that soon. People staying on Reddit will prefer to fix their personal API key every day to use a 2 years old Lemmy or Sync apk rather than try Lemmy.

    • BoozillaEnglish
      5•11 hours ago

      I’m also starting to think social media plus human nature = inherently bad combo. It’s not always bad, but it trends that way over time and at large scales.

      Real identity social media is bad because creepy corporations track your every move and people post fake and highly curated profiles.

      Anonymous social media is bad because too many people behave like unfiltered belligerent asholes.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        3•10 hours ago

        People suck. Basically always hoping there is someone beneath them to feel better for treating them worse.

        It’s probably best to be in a situation where you can still get socked in the mouth for acting like a jerk while people are having a conversation.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•12 hours ago

      Hahaha yeah the whole API key thing was what pushed me to Lemmy.

      The first time I got “you have used the maximum amount of posts blah blah blah” I was done with reddit… But then I found out that I’m having a lot less fun.

      I have to participate in the big communities and with awful people if I don’t want to be alone in an empty community.