Adding more noise does nothing to add insights it just makes it more exhausting to pick a position yourself.

If everything is nuanced then you can more easily give up on caring in a meaningful way because you believe there is no good answer.

Yeah the best ones are just taking advantage of our empathetic neurons to initiate a conversation. The terrifying ones then use that opening to inject their own thoughts on others.

Ah. It used to be just someone that would say something so inflammatory or provoking that it would force interaction or responses from the people witnessing it.

Like an obvious joke or quote of an earworm that it creates replies. Or sometimes something rude or just wrong on purpose. Modern bad actors adopting trolling tactics is not necessarily the same thing.

You could say trolls are like onions, they have multiple coatings.

I thought it would be a legitimate niche forum for sharing information. And reddit leaned further into trolling and bad behaviour.

A systems purpose is what it does and this platform has not shown much outside of being a place for fights and self held superiority stroking.

TL; DR I am mostly here for news links and B-Movie-Bananza cause it has some good recommendations. Not to interact or pretend this is more than the sum of its parts.
Also the top communities are memes mostly so, yes? Is not jokes a minor form of trolling?

Yeah reddit and Lemmy are just auxiliary troll communities to the OG forums like 4chan.

Same people. Same shitty behaviour just slightly different topics and levels of trolling.

Yeah, got to go up the line of ancestry I guess to find all his nazi supporting family.

Solid argument 10/10 on the gymnastics routine.

Clearly. You compared adjusting even a part of your life to living in the dunps and trashing it completely. You are clearly self centered and wouldn’t care.

So, you are a gross person and I don’t expect you to care.

Duh, and still ew.

Ew

And also clearly you. As you seem to have decided you won’t participate until every single one of the other billions do.

Yeah we managed to just put the slave workers behind a further layer of obfuscation. Not just relegated to their own quarters or part of town but to a different city altogether or even continent.

Tech dreams have become about a complete lack of humanity.

Sorry. But yeah. Don’t have an answer but it’s a mess for being a new memeber when it feels communities don’t care to remember that people have to start somewhere.

Sorry that it happened to you too.

The topic was how much they hoped my garden withered because I couldn’t afford to fully mulch all of it and was saying I was having to constantly weed the edge of my garden.
They proceeded to gleefully wish harm upon me and hardship for not doing or being exactly like them and as I begged for help from others to not feel alone was told I likely deserved it.

Yeah people are truly awful everywhere and not working on getting better.

Yeah, and I am the person I want to be I just don’t expect the change.

I have this insane thought that shorter bans but publicly stated when/why/how-long would be more beneficial to keeping a community aligned when it’s all we got. And that it would be harder to abuse and give insight into mods efforts.

But yeah I have said to others I intend to use it more as a link aggregator by effort but not community.

I can’t be responsible for changing others. That is an unfair request.

Spend money I don’t have to open myself to attacks for people I already say I dislike that don’t like to told what to do at all.

No.

You would think. I still won’t go back to the gardening community. And will probably just stop participating in anything around here.

The problem is that there is still to few others than those types. The topic seems secondary. The mellow places are where it’s empty.

Its still a shame that I will never recommend this place to anyone I know until the community changes here.

Its a bit chicken and the egg cause we likely need one for the other. But with the users proclivity for bans, and blocks you end up with a user base even smaller and discussion that more feels like a battle to be right most of the time because intellectual superiority is looked up to rather than conversation.

I still think a community of people competing to be the most right in every comment section does not lead to actual community and doesn’t even help provide facts or info to most communities when there are not many niches to which people in here can participate in. Objective facts work best not in fandoms but in crafts. Like what glue doesn’t melt Styrofoam when doing prop building not which show or game is best.

I may be alone in this but I yearn for “the normies”.

Yeah the true crime has been how awful cut and beige all their clothing options are now. But they have always chased which ever group they think is in power and spending cash and I guess it’s wannabe trad upper middle class now, instead of queer upper middle class.