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Since karma isn’t tracked,

Some third party apps do track Lemmy downvotes though. And I’ve seen plenty of obnoxious posters bring up someones “downvote count” in conversation–just so they can try to win their argument.

We just need more people posing shit, the fact that one or two users can dominate my feed if they choose to is not ideal.

That’s because so many on Lemmy would rather downvote than post anything.

People here are way bigger smug assholes than even Reddit.

Yep, and I am legit shocked about that. I still have a burner reddit account that I go to, and honestly, as much crap as reddit gets, I see way more assholes and ban-happy people here. On reddit someone gets mad at you or your opinion, and they just block you.

Here, a lot of posters who dislike ya will refuse to block you. Instead they’ll follow you and downpost every single post you make. I never had stalkers like that on Reddit.

Like you, I was an early fan. And even tried to talk my gf into getting on Lemmy. The other day, she finally decided to, and I talked her out of it and told her to just stick with Reddit. lol

NOTHING is stopping a conservative from coming here and making cogent, factual arguments, aside from their own fragility.

Except for all the Lemmys saying that no conservatives should be allowed on Lemmy. I have seen conservatives try to ask a question. Then so many immediately jump to calling the poster a sealioning nazi, that they just get run off. Lemmy is one of the more hateful places I have seen.

I’m not conservative by the way, so you all don’t have send me nazi dm’s.

You don’t have to subscribe to political communities if you don’t want to see political discussion.

True but it seems like the majority of Lemmys like attaching anything and everything to something political. I saw some post about a squirrel or something, just chiling in the heat. Supposed to be cute. Immediately devolved into how fat the squirrel looked and how it must be a MAGA squirrel. Then the conversation just devolved into “cheeto man”(stupidist overused Lemmy term ever!) jokes over and over.

Also, Lemmy: why the fuck do you all think saying “cheeto man” is so hilarious? It’s something that 2nd graders would snicker at. Once. And you all say it over and over. WTF?! No wonder you all can’t get girlfriends.

Zoroastrians

Zoroastrians for the win. I never thought I’d see that word mentioned on here!

Votes and vote manipulation are destroying Lemmy.

The right wing instances are just defederated from this larger federated group because the people on them were unable to follow the rules of other instances.

I don’t think it’s just that. I have seen plenty of people say that no conservative content should be allowed on Lemmy. At all.

Go post a conservative article in c/politics and see what happens. Some of the DM’s you’ll get are actually reportable to the FBI. The anti-conservative streak here is extreme. I’ve reported some of the DM’s I get to the police, and I’m not even conservative, but just because I advocate 3-party voting. People on here can be insane.

I’ve seen plenty of pitchforks go after posters. Even when it’s a neutral article that talks about something positive a conservative politician did or said.

It’s just as much a left-wing echo chamber as Truth Social is a right-wing one - and that’s a problem in both cases.

Very much so. And it seems to be getting even worse lately. I mostly post socialist and third party stuff, but if I dare say I don’t like a democrat or something, I get automatic “YOU’RE ACTUALLY A TRUMPER!! MAGA-NAZI!!!”

Bans and hateful DM’s. All because I don’t like the 2-party system. lol

I know that Reddit doesn’t outright ban Lemmy talk, but on my reddit profile, I updated it with my Lemmy username link. I got banned from reddit a couple of hours later. No reason given. And I hadn’t made any recent posts. Ban reason was “violating rules.” lol

Yep, I had same reaction. Since there are so many tech nerds on here, as most early adopters are, I thought that community would have a lot more content. But I’ll be adding to it soon enough since I just started to learn programming! :)

I had no idea what a tankie was until I started using Lemmy. lol

Good, because .world is one of the more toxic ban-happy instances in the fediverse.

This is more to do with most Lemmy users being shut-in nerds not inclined to sports tbh.

Totally this. The amount of shut-in nerds on here, with strange obsessive habits of stalking people who disagree with them, is wild.

I’ve seen people mention wanting to talk more sports on here, and some of the hate and downvotes those posts get is insane.

Earlier today and yesterday, people in this community were saying that Iran doesn’t have nukes, isn’t making nukes, can’t make nukes, and that republicans are just making it up.

Something has changed. Hanging out on left wing social spaces has put me so far behind the information curve.

I’ve noticed stuff like that too. I think it’s because republicans use to be so quick to judge based on emotion, and not facts. And they got called out for it. So now they are more inclined to be more informed so they don’t look like dumbasses.

Even in this comm. When the iran-israel bombing thing happened I came here expecting a bunch of links and thoughtful comment. Nope. This sub stayed basically quiet while it was happening. Fox news lit up tho. Same with this shooting. Why is it taking so long to be in this sub?

Is this place censoring stuff like that or what? Why isn’t stuff like that reported here anymore?

And as we can see in this thread, Lemmy is starting to do the exact same things that republicans used to be guilty of–acting on emotion rather than facts. I knew as soon as I said violence is never the answer, people were just gonna jump in and say whatabbout hitler bro!

Again, showing their lack of context and facts. I think (hope!) that Lemmy as a whole is smarter than this, but the ones who seem to comment the most aren’t giving me much hope.

Lemmy, you won’t win with violence. I promise. You don’t have the numbers or the skills. You couldn’t even enough people to vote, they aren’t gonna joined you in some armed resistance.

Use your brains, not our fists. You fist are just gonna get you stomped down faster. It’s exactly what the people in power want you to do. They want you to not use your brain, and immediately jump to violence. Downvoting me doesn’t mean I’m wrong, it just means you’re upset. It doesn’t change anything though.

Maybe. Maybe not. They’re saying the suspect was appointed by Tim Walz, and they found anti-Trump signs in the car. It could be an attempt to throw people off the scent, or it might just be a personal vendetta. We don’t know. Either way, no matter what side the shooter is on, it’s bad for any political party. It will only fuel more dissent and division.

I remember when Trump was shot at, and people here were celebrating, saying things like, “Oh, I wish they had better aim.” Now, it’s happened to Democrats, and people are acting horrified.

Shooting political figures is never a good thing, regardless of their party. Lemmy needs to stop celebrating violence when it happens to people they don’t like. The reality is, this stuff happens to people they do like too. Violence is never the answer; it always ends up worse.

Many of these things end with the shooter killing themselves. I hope that doesn’t happen here, because I want his craziness exposed and have him serve rest of his life in prison. Just the pics of the weird-ass mask that he wore doing it proves he’s out of his mind.