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Title basically. I was here at the very start of it all and really enjoyed it. However I felt it lost its uniqueness within a few months of mass migration and started turning a bit like reddit again so I deleted my old account. However Reddit has only gotten much much worse since, and Lemmy has stayed about the same. So here again.

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[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

people calling me/others names, spamming agendas, or generally being hostile nutjobs pushing some extremist agenda and accusing anyone who isn't in agreement with them as being the enemy, and that the enemy should be killed.

oh and people who personally harass you, like going around commenting on multiple unrelated comments you made to repeatedly call you names, and downvote you, of course.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And that all sounds absolutely reasonable. I'm just having a very different experience on Lemmy, and that's the main reason why I found it odd, so appreciate your clarification.

And this is not to say I haven't stumbled upon some shitheads, it's just the frequency is low enough to be not so noticeable, not something I really put effort into addressing. If it were higher for me, I'm sure I'd find myself doing the same thing you are.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I have been on here for about 20m this morning, and blocked 5 people already.

Why? Because they made hostile/unhinged replies in another threads insulting other people over an opinion or a story.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based on your description, it looks like you are visiting Lemmy.ml a lot.

[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

there are plenty of other nutjob instances than .ml