I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
I think people want to share and be heard so they will speak a bit more than you’d want, but I feel on average it’s neutral and we just put a negative spin on some responses because of our own perception.
But then again, there will be people who simply hate you for being you (e.g. tankies on .ml), just like any other social media (e.g. maga on X). The flavor of hate people are allowed to spew is based on moderation, and by that metric, I still prefer moderation on the fediverse over most corporate options.
you can at least block .ml users on sight, or the entire instance.
the issue is way too many of them have alts on other instances and still spout their crazy nonsense where it’s not needed or wanted. and they will brigade other communities when they feel attacked.
just like subreddits used to do to each other.