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Why does the culture surrounding Lemmy seem to be inherently negative and hateful? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have accounts on various Reddit alternatives and have also had accounts on now-defunct sites. However, none have exhibited the same level of negativity as Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A lot of comments seem to disagree with you, so define Negativity? ( what do you consider to be negative behavior )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I find that the communities I follow to be mostly positive. Unless the conversation is about Israel because there always seems to be someone with a terrible take on that gets a ton of down votes .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I am saying that as a former reddit user and current Discuit user and multi lemmy instance account user:

Rude people comments and downvotes for any type of post and bad mods who are going through power trips.

Admins are not involved in the site like the other reddit alternatives.

Edit 1 : Admins are not involved.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I've seen a pattern where a lot of comments on links are about what the user thinks of the topic, and not about the actual article or video specifically, and more often people only care to comment if they are opinionated, and often times that's a negative opinion

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Admins being more involved, IMHO, is a positive, not a negative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I meant that they are not involved, I edited my comment.

I agree with you from my discuit experience.