I was thinking about this again after reading https://jlai.lu/post/22505617 and how Tesseract shut down because of people’s inability to behave. And this isn’t the first occasion where I’ve seen people really abruptly leaving Lemmy or the fediverse because of the general atmosphere. Personally I’ve avoided most political communities aside from a few, and I’ve mostly engaged in more niche places, and I haven’t encountered too many issues with people. But I’ve definitely seen very snarky, aggressive comments from some people, and no doubt there are more of those the more political the community is. I guess it’s logical that the fediverse would attract those most opinionated, or those that have been banned on other platforms for inciting (what someone else might see as) hate, violence or other various reasons.
Do you think the fediverse has a civility problem and is there anything we can do about it?
Maybe I’m toxic, but the Fediverse has been incredibly kind. I find a lot of people on here are a lot more sincere than on other platforms, which is refreshing.
I’ll see a lot of cringy memes or someone sharing a bit too much, which is something that I’d downvote or hide on other platforms. On here, I tend to approach things a bit kinder, maybe because the community is smaller or I think the person posting is being genuine.