If you use the word toxic, you’re probably the problem. You might be more comfortable on Reddit
this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2026
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If you want to have a really bad opinion on people in general, engage with them on social media.
Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent.
This just screams mott and bailey fallacy. It is very reminiscent, for example, of transphobes complaining that they get attacked for having the gall of claiming "sex is real". And that's basically what happened here. You said some really upsetting, shitty things, and now you're whining about people getting upset about it. Go touch some grass.
I am going to push back a bit here, I've never been banned on Lemmy.... Reddit permabanned me 3 or 4 years ago, then lost so many users they unbanned my account randomly.
Idk I kinda like it here. Everybody uses linux in this place.
I disagree, Karl. Zionists are out of effing control on reddit today, and they pollute threads with denials of whats clearly shown in the news, or else make wild claims without evidence.
You are of course, wle come to your opinion, but what you are saying makes no sense to me.
I just had a guy here tell me that shooting civilians in Israel was OK, because there are no Israeli civilians.
The anti-semitism here is effing out of control.
I mean there are a few of them trying real hard but they get downvoted to oblivion.
My dude, if after all what has happened. You still live in israel... you are indeed pro-genocide.
Like the old saying: if you are at a table with 9 nazis, there are 10 nazis at the table. Speak up or be complicit.
Do you count people that served in the IOF and are part of the reserve as civilians? That's the thing most talk about. And again with the anitsemitism 🙄 people have a lot better reasons to hate israelis than "zomg jews"
Nope, it was explicitly every single Israeli. Explicitly stated. A mod has removed the comment now, so I can't link to it - but that kinda proves my point (unless you think I am making up everything).
I do get the impression that lots of people here believe the sentiment in that comment. While being too self aware to actually state it in writing.
You can link to comments if they were removed though. You can find them in the modlog. Click the three dots and "show user moderation history" or "comment moderation history".
Also that's still not antisemitism.
The prevailing theory here is violence is good as long as it's down to the 'bad' people and it's wrong if it's done against the 'good' people.
With total ignorance of the fact... this is the same rationale that is causing the genocide in Gaza.
Then people scream about human rights or whatever, and fail to realize that they apply to everyone, not just who they think is good.
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I find that people like and dislike different things about Reddit. Me, I really didn't like the average politics of Reddit: basically Nazis, conservatives and liberals. And so much advertising! Here there are a lot of anarchist and communist users that would be censored on Reddit (though plenty of Lemmy users would like to censor them here too).
That's what drew me here, it's far more leftist and beyond friendly while being less friendly to tankies and right wing political opinion having individuals like the neo-liberal.
Completely agree
It's just another bubble. Choose the bubble that fits you.
depends on what instance you use and what comunitys/instances u block.
The only anoying user cluster i came about here was this iranian bot farm cluster that basically cryes "muh Zionism" at everything and everyone, but blocking the .ml instance helped a lot ignoring those
Also blocking every politics related comunity is a good step to keep your sanity
I think you're missing the point.
People are people everywhere you go. Nowhere is free of people unless you want to be by yourself.
Lemmy and the Fediverse is not about only being around people that are exactly perfect for you to associate with.
It's about not giving your thoughts, your mental energy, and your time to build an empire for someone else to profit off of.
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I'm doing my part!
PSA: you can block users. Don't be afraid to do it. There's nothing you can say that will convince flat earthers or similar stupid people.
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Hell is other people.
A priest explained us that hell is like a huge dinner party, lots of great food, but people have only long spoons, so they can't eat the food no matter how much they try. Heaven, well, it's the same stuff because God loves everyone, but people care and feed others with their spoon. Not really buying into the whole church business, but I always liked this picture.
It's kinda like the founding of Australia - we get a ton of exiles who were wrongfully prosecuted by the Reddit government, but we also get a fair share of degenerates and murderers who also got banned and ended up here. There's even a native Lemmy group who was here before Reddit shed users and they really don't appreciate it to say the least.
really don’t appreciate it to say the least
Hahaha what’s this? Come on bust open the story
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