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.
People are gonna be people no matter if they are on Reddit or Lemmy, that guy who was arguing with you had a negative score, next time just stop replying, saves both of you time.
Yeah rule #1 of the internet is don’t feed the trolls so I shouldn’t have bit. I just couldn’t help it.