I went back this week because I noticed narwhal 2 finally came out. I loved narwhal and we waited such a long time for the new app to come out. Outside of using Reddit in search engine results, I looked around with the new app. And people are so mean and rude on Reddit I forgot how toxic it can get there. Made me really appreciate lemmy.

Narwhal 2 will eventually need to start charging. It was nice to finally get a glimpse of it because it goes paid.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been sort of bothered by the uptick of rudeness and combativeness on lemmy lately. When I first got here, it felt like everyone assumed positive intent from each other most of the time, but recently it feels like that shifted. I hope I just got unlucky and it isn’t a bigger trend overall.

[–] johnthedoe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a damn shame if that toxicity is permeating through Lemmy. Once I really feel no difference between here and reddit on that front, I’d rather go back to reddit unfortunately.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I’m afraid we’re all like Frodo after destroying the ring—you can’t go home because it won’t be the same anymore. At least Lemmy doesn’t shove ads down my throat like I’m a baby bird.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If anything, people are worse here, in my experience.

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's honestly insane. Getting to the point where I think I'm just going to filter out the technology and politics communities despite being interested in the content and in some of the discussions. There are so many over the top toxic people on lemmy. In one of the youtube adblocking threads, there was a guy who said something along the lines of "honestly it's worth it for me to have youtube premium" and he was downvoted and called a paid google employee. Like it's so absurd. You can't say anything that goes against the circlejerk without being dogpiled on. It's behavior that's far worse and more consistently worse than anything I've ever seen on reddit. It's not the first time I've seen stuff like that. I remember all the backlash when sync came out. I like the app and the dev so I paid for it but all these FOSS bros were acting like the dev is the second coming of Hitler for daring to make money for his work. It's exhausting. I hate ads and subscriptions but I need to live my life at some point and just begrudgingly accept them. I can't spend all day seething about it like a lot of people on lemmy do. Again, it's just kind of exhausting reading a lot of threads now. I thought I was going crazy but it's nice to see that other people have similar observations.

[–] TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same, not at first but seems like the mega assholes breed here like rabbits.