I like a lot of the communities on that instance, but every once in a while I just get hit with a random wave of toxicity by them for no reason. For example, there was a post asking which communities from Reddit do you wish existed on Lemmy, and I answered honestly saying more car related communities as they are one of my hobbies, and I got severely downvoted and got replied to with “there is a FuckCars community” There are other times in the past where something similar happened in a lemmy.ml community, where I said something that was 100% non-offensive, non-argumentative, and non-political but got mass down voted for no reason. I have not had this problem anywhere else however. Does anyone else have a similar experience or no?

  • Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    5917·
    1 year ago

    You mentioning the car thing is so true. Anytime you mention stuff about cars here, you’ll get the typical comment reply using it as a soapbox platform to say how cars are the devil.

    The FuckCars users are some of the most toxic people on this site. It’s not even worth arguing with them.

    • Microw@lemm.eeEnglish
      272·
      1 year ago

      I get why people are anti cars. But those who want to take cars away from people who enjoy them and who are trying to behave responsibly just suck.

    • money_loo@1337lemmy.comEnglish
      204·
      1 year ago

      Same thing for technology.

      I had to block five tech communities because it’s nothing but “technology evil” posts and comments, and when I complain about the lack of positive feedback, they just tell me I’m ignorant to reality…which is irrelevant to me just wanting to enjoy positive tech communities…

      • I need NOS@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        And god forbid you mention Windows. You’ll be told you’re better off dead in no time…

      • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        I stopped hanging out in most tech communities for the same reason. Thinking of quiting a few more and a few game ones, the behaviour has started dripping in.

        • insomniac@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Why don’t you guys start a new community that suits you? I bet there’s more people that feel the same way.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      94·
      1 year ago

      As I recall, there was a split in that Reddit community about whether to migrate here. Most of them decided to stay there on the (reasonable) grounds that they wanted to reach as many people as possible with their (IMO justified) message. So presumably the ones who came here are the dogmatic ideologues who prefer hating to persuading.