oldie meme but needed to bring this back due to recent incidents 😭

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Why do you think you’re better than us?

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I like that the name of the platform has been written over.

“This is only happening locally here at <place in the internet> and not at <every other place in the internet>”. And that’s happening for every place in the internet.

Marvellous

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So you’re saying Twitter is better?

/jk

Sure, it happens here, but I feel the toxicity on Lemmy is far less then on Reddit or other platforms, and with toxicity I mean including people assuming you’re saying something else because they are triggered somehow. But it’s very hard not to stumble upon people like that. Trolls rule the universe, they are everywhere.

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I also feel like posts like these are specifically part of the toxicity, encouraging it because “haha funy”

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Just personally, I find that the toxicity around here just around group think is a little worse than reddit. It’s different but it can be a lot worse, especially with the way people on Lemmy use downvotes.

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It may be less toxic, but that’s only if you share the sentiments many lemmy users share. The echo chamber is louder here

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True. true… true… true…

But I’m glad I don’t have to scroll through loads of right wing extremist posts all the time and constantly have to fight nazis. nazis… nazis… nazis…

So I’m happy with it. it… it… it…

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On the other hand, a failure to make assumptions about what someone is saying leads to people being able either to willfully misrepresent their positions (“Oh, I don’t hate waffles, I just bring up how the world would be better without waffles in every conversation, no matter how tangential!”) or unintentionally fail to see the necessary implications of their statements (“I’m not saying waffles are better, I’m just saying pancakes are worse!”)

All language has some ambiguity, which necessitates assumption in communication.

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I just ignore and block if it continues. I got no time for people who are responding to the voices in their head instead of what I’m actually writing.

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