I feel like things on Lemmy were pretty chill several months ago, and that’s started to change.

People used to talk each other like they would talk to a neighbor. Now I get the sense that people have become quick to be negative, attack, and not be constructive.

Am I crazy in feeling like the vibe has changed?

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Liberals just can’t fathom the possibility that socialists walk among us, therefore they must be cryptofascists or paid shills of foreign States.

    I assure you that we have been here all along, despite two red scares and a cold war to try to purge us.

    It’s pretty insulting, considering that American socialists helped bring about the weekend and the eight hour workday.

    • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      There’s people who are constructive and try to be polite who have different world views, and then there’s the people who just insult and spam racial slurs. The second category gets a block on offending users and a block on an entire community if it’s repeated

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
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      10 months ago

      There are socialists, and then there is a fairly new wave of terminally online toxic assholes borrowing socialist rhetoric.

      There is a difference between activism and empty virtue signaling. A huge portion of the online left is more interested in letting everyone know how pissed off they are than actually making the cultural gains necessary to improve anything.

      • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Plus they think the stupidest shit matters.

        Earlier I saw people complaining about the Hogwarts game because of JK Rowling. Yeah, don’t play the videogame based on the book series that was written by a transphobe. Cause somehow that means the videogame and it’s developers are all transphobic too?

        Someone should tell them transphobic people breathe oxygen, maybe they’ll suffocate themselves as activism.