I do feel like there's a lot of needless drama and a lot of people could stand to be nicer to one another. I would include myself in this category honestly.
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Eh. Yeah. But maybe that's just what a lot of people are like on the internet. I'd say a lot of social media sites used to be the same, before they were swamped with AI to the point of unusability.
It is a link aggregating forum site, and has the problems that come with that. However I find it to be the least awful of social media.
There is plenty of stupid shit posting here, and just taking the piss. However I do think that people here are more likely to take certain things more seriously than most places. However all places sort of have their topics they take way too seriously
Not really, it feels far more freeing to me than Reddit, despite the community being smaller.
While I'm sure we all have our own reasons for coming here, I believe that what we have in common - whether we are reddfugees or not - is that it either took us cognitive effort, an intersectional understanding of human behavior, culture, society and capitalism or living with trauma - or some combination thereof - in order to seek out the Fediverse. Such backgrounds organically come with maturity, which could be perceived as seriousness.
You can be whatever you want to be. Karma isn't really a thing here. If people don't like what you have to say, then it's tough tiddies. They can block you. If you get banned from a community, you probably didn't want to be a part of it, anyway. Just be you and don't worry what others think. People generally like genuine.
Most of time hostility is toward morslly bankrupt people defending genocides, warcrimes, racists etc
Or terrorists and authoritarians.
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That all seems wildly different based on the kind of posts you're commenting on. Make fun comments on fun posts, fun comments shall surely follow you.
I haven't been noticing it that much lately, but I've felt the same when I first joined. A lot of people just don't get jokes and they will downvote what they don't understand.
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I did notice something like that, until I decided to take care on what I commented on, if it's not that important to me I usually don't, such as on the majority of news because what can you really say anyways. There is a lot of political grandstanding and but if you stay away from politics it's mostly good