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Have you had any bad experiences with people on Lemmy? (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I "surprisingly haven't found any bigotry."

I'm wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it's rare, my guess is that even though it's decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I'm guessing it's easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I posted a dumb meme about my power going out and my neighbors using the car for AC, and I had some guy screaming at me that I was lying about my power going out because they couldn't find it on the internet, then when I posted a screenshot of my app that shows my power outages, they started screaming that I was a toxic person for not inviting them in my house. When I pointed out the irony of them being toxic, they essentially said it's different when they do it because it's online, but I'm toxic in person, which somehow makes me worse.

Even though it was just a fucking meme in the first place. The power did go out, but no one was dying in the streets or anything.

Oh, and then someone posted a picture in a comment of someone taking a shit on someone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What in the world?