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?
If it does, the mods and admin under whose aegis I abide are doing an above-average job removing it quickly.
Or maybe it’s just that I avoid political discussion communities these days.
In the end, I find the lemmy / piefed / *bin network much more civil, thoughtful, and compassionate than reddit was.
I suspect it’s going to depend on the communities you, and/or your instance subscribe to.
I’m on my own instance, so if there’s any instance level removal happening, it’s me doing it. And I find in general people here to be much more polite, much more likely to receive (well made) criticism and useful new information instead of a personal attack than on the other place.
There are likely communities that by their design are going to be antagonistic. But I am unsure even after reading that thread specifically what went wrong. So, I don’t think I’m able to fully comment on what happened and why in this case.