Ask Lemmy

Yes. Bunch of snarky idiots that don't know what the fuck they're talking about because all they know how to do is snark at each other.

No concept of listening. No concept of nuance or context. Just pure sophomoric rage toward anyone or anything that challenges anything you think.

I POST: "Maybe try electing a socialist in NYC and a more centrist candidate in Iowa, where there aren't as many lefties to support you"

RESPONSES I GET: "You want to see homeless people burn to death in televised bum fights because you hate fucking progress"

It's exhausting. You people are worse than Republicans because at least they're propagandized. They're in a cult. You have the information available to you; you're just ignorant.

No its not, fuck you. If you don't like it then get the fuck off my website.

I have experienced that in a relatively small number of user, communities, or instances. I tend to block them if they are jerks or the community encourages dog piling on people who "don't get it" or the mods are power tripping.

They do tend to be active because they are so contentious, but it is very repetitive as they cycle through the same few topics.

If you say so.

There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky

Basically, branching comments make it possible to UM AKCHUALLY everything, and so people do. It's not necessarily meant in a mean way; at least not all the time. It's just a way to contribute a bit more to the discussion, and you can learn a lot from whatever ubernerd or person from the other side of the tracks you meet here. Or at least, I have.

and judgmental.

Lemmy is also political, just by nature of what it is. Highly political communities are always full of infighting and holier-than-thou shit, IRL or online.

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.

That's an interesting one, because it's nothing like Reddit or general political communities.

It feels like it comes from the whole .ml/North Korea fan end of things. You go over to one of their instances, and there's a lot of trying to measure their dicks against each other with big words, long sentences and doorstopper citations. (If it actually makes sense is secondary)

Anyway, no, it's not just you. There's a lot of good stuff going on, too. Although anyone still on Lemmy is obviously going to give that answer.

Well since people are tired of the clown circus that is Reddit, they came here, people are afraid that Lemmy/PieFed will go in a downspiral

You probably just hang out in the wrong /c/ 🤷 take /c/ich_iel@feddit.org for example, most comments are jokes. One place I like a lot is https://lemmy.world/c/superbowl, maybe they hit your nerve, too?

oh yeah. just got through one of these. I am expected to obtain solid studies if i so much as go against the flow of popular opinions of which have had never had to be up against any scrutiny what so ever.

eg: vegans speaking on consciousness and how they believe it exists in the brain.

they speak about consiousness and it's location like it has all been proven. They provide no papers. no proof. just how they feel about consciousness when talking about it.

And there is none. any papers that that exist today are all based in theory around the existance of consciousness and ideas of what consciousness means. no hard facts.

but if you question a vegan on their feefees about consiousness they ask you for the science studies and facts and freely call you insane for daring to question them.

Apparently you're not supposed to consume anything with a brain that would support thought and a nervous system according to their ideas of consciousness. So it appears sea cucumbers, star fish and jelly fish are vegan food according to their beliefs of consciousness.

of course they loose their shit if you challenge it to any depth like this.

dont get me wrong: im all for the plant based diet as its better for the body and planet. i just think the reasonings around using the consiousness argument is very weak. if they can say consiousness exists with animals: i can say consiousness exists in plants too.

Can't have serious discussions about most political topics here without it being just people endlessly spamming "capitalism bad!" or "Israel bad!"

Generally people are just spamming the same talking points, ignoring any facts (like the fact that communism failed). Posting the same antisemitic conspiracy theories I've seen on the internet 20 years ago, but with "the Jews" replaced with "Israel". There's a lot of hateful people here and they compete with each other to be the most hateful towards the evil capitalist Jews.

I don't see anyone even attempting to think of ways to improve anything in the world, a lot of people just seem to think expressing hatred on the internet will somehow make things better.

What economic policies could make our lives better? "Kill the capitalists!" How can we make peace in the world? "Kill the Jews!"

That's the level of political discourse on Lemmy.