Lemmy is like a nation of cats sometimes

I don't see much but I also don't frequent the main news and politics forums, and avoid getting involved in arguments about the best Linux distro is (when we all know it's... nah not going there).
- Arch, btw
  
  Arch?
  Man, your spelling is horrible. That looks nothing like mint at at
- Hey Emperor, I’m happy to hear your experiences have been better :)
  Yes, those two topics often turn out feisty in the comments. Thats why I’m excited for Mlem’s 2.0 release where we can toggle on/off filter word lists. Sometimes I just want to chill and enjoy the positives with my fellow lemmings.
  I know that feeling! When I say I like Linux and use a particular distro someone is often attempting to convince me to switch to another one hehe. But I’m like “I like my current configuration and migrating again is a lot of work”.
  
  Go with Qubes and use all the OSs at once!
- We all know the best one is the one you compile straight from the source and build it from scratch. Filthy casuals.
- The best Linux is WSL

OP, what the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
- Its spelt guerilla
  
  That's the joke
  
  No ur a gerila

Maybe you wouldn't see so much hostility if you weren't going around harassing people for owning horses. You get what you give.
- What?
  
  https://lemmy.ca/post/37589629

- Careful, you might get yelled at by Sunshine for posting pictures of captive cats fighting, you absolute monster!
  
  Thats right! Look at them, caught by their capitalist overlords and forced to work for their kibble.
  Oh the humanity..

While I think Lemmy is great, I feel like there’s way more nitpicking about things and that I have felt more targeted here sometimes for differing in opinion on topics. On Reddit I don’t often run into the same person twice after having a disagreement unless it’s a subreddit I regularly visit. I just hope we could have more positive interactions in the future. !taneggs@lemmy.ca is great for that.
I’m really excited for more mature moderation tools to facilitate a kinder atmosphere in the future.
- I feel like there’s way more nitpicking about things
  NGL, I feel like there's a higher concentration of people on the spectrum on here that might contribute to this.
  Game knows game.
  
  As my wife advises me: rizz ‘em with the ‘tizzem.
- Hello sunshine. I hope you are doing well and thriving.
  
  somehow this comment sounds the most hostile in this entire thread.
- I’m really excited for more mature moderation tools to facilitate a kinder atmosphere in the future.
  I think it just results in more bans and blocking, instead of feeling picked on you'll just be banned, at least on far left instances/areas.
  I got banned on Mastodon for 'climate change denialism' which I thought was hilarious considering I have likely spent more money and more of my time to be climate positive than the person who banned me and the people outraged by what I said combined
  But they wanted to be hyped up by a garbage doomer article and by me arguing that the article was doomer bs and bad maths triggered them
  
  youre welcome to come deny climate change in the free speech community i started
- !superbowl@lemmy.world !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world !goodoffmychest@lemmy.world !gardening@lemmy.world
  Just linking some more wholesome communities
- I love the nitpicking! It’s hard to convince someone of something that they didn’t conceive “themselves.” Utilizing a superiority complex while playing the jester never gets old.
  *note sometimes I am just dumb
  
  Are we really human if we don't have nitpicking and drama?
  We have a thousands of years old translated clay tablet... shitting on a copper merchant after all haha
- What kind of "Mature Moderation Tools" ?

This has not been my experience. Maybe try different communities or instances?

Most of Lemmy's user base is made up of tech obsessed weirdos with an axe to grind against other social media platforms.
Of course they're going to be toxic.
- Yes, this is quite true.
  Although we should spare a thought to the leftists doing this for political reasons who are also weirdos. Looking at hexbear, lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml in particular.
  
  They have too many thoughts of too low a quality already. I'm not lending them any of mine.
  
  leftists
  lol
  
  Everyone knows liberals and fascists have no blame in that dynamic at all. Reality has a liberal bias, after all.
- Because it's got a better app than reddit
  
  My axe was getting a bit dull.

(mean sounds)
- (Counterpoint?)
  
  (extremely long critique about one irrelevant detail that you got slightly incorrect)
- Well I feel hurt now.
  
  (insults)

On voyager you can block communities and filter keywords from post titles (not sure if it’s a voyager setting or a lemmy one though). My first two words are “Trump” and “Elon”, it has significantly improved my viewing experience as well as some other political words.

100% agreed
I have felt more targeted here sometimes for differing in opinion on topics.
1000% agreed
- Love the people in the comments proving OP right.

There's really only two types of people who get mad at mods:
The people who break the rules then get mad that they suffered the consequences
The people who see mods using the position just to have the smallest modicum of power over others and just reflexively swing the ban hammer without looking at context, seeing if there is a pattern, giving warnings, or anything else. They just remove and block what they, personally, do not like.
There's a boatload of both here, just as there was on Reddit. The differences are that it's smaller here, so you actually see the people complaining about the mods and the modlog is public so you can always see if the mod's actions were reasonable.

Cuddling and licking each other's ears.

Mostly because of all the fucking Tankies and both-sides-bad centrists they promote and enable.
Corporate mostly doesn't give a fuck (well lately they do but I never had Elon Musk or Zuckerberg break into every other comment section and start flaming nonprofit childrens hospitals and puppies), but the CCP troll farms and bot networks have an agenda.
- I feel like the tankie "both sides" is notably a different claim than a centrist "both sides" but I suppose you're right that one can give cover to the other.
- Tankies shit on people whilst simultaneously calling it deprogramming which is hilarious because you're doing the opposite, you're making people less likely to be sympathetic by being hostile
  
  I sometimes wonder if it's somehow a convoluted western reverse-psyop to turn people against radical ideologies by introducing them to bad actors and pissing them off.
  Then I remember how extremely effective their propaganda has been for them so far and dismiss that thought.

The fediverse mostly has two types of people: people who don't want to be part of surveillance capitalism, and those who got banned on centralized social media for bad behavior. Unsurprisingly, the second group causes the same problems here as they did on centralized platforms.

As long as you never say anything even remotely political or controversial, you are fine.
But that comes at a cost of self expression. Conform or be cast out (blocked).
- Drawn like moths we drift into the comments, the timeless old attraction, baiting for reactions
  Lit up like a firefly just to have an online fight