When I first started using Lemmy it seemed like such a nice place with interesting discussions. It seemed like the first group of people to join after the app exodus were being quite careful to be respectful of the existing culture.
Now, it seems as though the culture from Reddit has completely replaced it. Toxicity and all. I will say I do follow a lot of communities from a wide range of instances so it’s clearly not everywhere.
Am I the only one who’s feeling like we’ve just stormed in and bulldozed Lemmy?
Lots of people think “free speech” means they can say anything they want and everyone has to pretend it’s a rational well thought opinion…
Their version of “free speech” ends when they stop speaking, and they want to force everyone to listen to it and not call them a dumbass or bigot.
It’s that low empathy thing.
They want free speech for themselves but not anyone that disagrees with them.
Not to mention social media is private corporations. Like, if you go to Walmart and start screaming about how birds aren’t real, Walmart don’t have to let you stand there and scream all you want. They can just make you leave. Which is the equivalent of banning.