Sorta, some of the smaller niche communities weren’t bad, but only when they stayed on that niche topic. The users weren’t actually any better. You just wouldn’t see it because you happened to only be engaging them on a niche topic you already agreed on.
If something came up that was even tangentially related to something like China, the toxicity and racism would be out. A Chinese player did something in a video game? Within five comments that game’s subreddit would be posting social credit memes or talking about Winnie the Pooh. Somebody made a Russian dish in a cooking subreddit? Less than five comments before people would be picketing them.
When you move into bigger topics like world news, that’s when shit really goes downhill. A lot of lemmy doesn’t seem better in that regard to be fair. Our world news community is obviously pretty reasonable, but a lot of them seem to be comprised entirely of Reddit liberals.
Sorta, some of the smaller niche communities weren’t bad, but only when they stayed on that niche topic. The users weren’t actually any better. You just wouldn’t see it because you happened to only be engaging them on a niche topic you already agreed on.
If something came up that was even tangentially related to something like China, the toxicity and racism would be out. A Chinese player did something in a video game? Within five comments that game’s subreddit would be posting social credit memes or talking about Winnie the Pooh. Somebody made a Russian dish in a cooking subreddit? Less than five comments before people would be picketing them.
When you move into bigger topics like world news, that’s when shit really goes downhill. A lot of lemmy doesn’t seem better in that regard to be fair. Our world news community is obviously pretty reasonable, but a lot of them seem to be comprised entirely of Reddit liberals.