I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?

  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I use the Voyager app and it allows me to tag user names so that I can avoid blocking the borderline cases. I don’t mind people who are having a bad day or are just cranky, or maybe have attitudes I find annoying but not fully disturbing. I will of course block extremist authoritarians and such.

    Since it’s a smallish social media community, I don’t really want to block all the discomfort away.

    If I know what to expect from someone’s posts, it’s more entertaining than jarring when someone is being abrasive, and it helps me interject if things get out of hand.

    I like that Lemmy/piefed is topic oriented, and not nearly as emotional as a microblogging space like mastodon, which is full of personal branding and ego and frequent annoyance at discussion when all someone wanted to do was make a posturing statement without friction or the jostle of other egos.