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Yes and I find this about much of the internet. Even places that ‘don’t allow politics’. They still allow reactionary politics, just not party politics or socialist politics. Which means liberal racism is a constant toxicity and any attempt to call it out results in a ban for bringing politics into it.

Overall, yes. But it depends on the community, although the larger the community the more toxic it is

Of course it is, it’s filled with people from the West who uncritically consume propaganda and regurgitate it. When challenged or questioned on their stances they just hurl insults and stick their heads in the sand.

They’re content to watch the shadows on the wall and accept it as what reality is.

Anonymous forums attract lonely people, lonely + anonymous is a recipe for toxic anti-social behaviour.

This applies to lemmy too btw…

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.

Yes.

I’d dive into nuclear waste before opening a reddit account again

When talking about non-political issues everyone seems pretty nice. But… nothing in the west should be taken for face value.

Yes

Yes. I feel comfortable to deal with some very personal issues here. When I asked for help on the grad I received tons and tons of advice and support. When I made similar posts on Reddit I was either attacked, harassed or ridiculed.

Yeah, even in the so called “progressive” communities. A great example (well, for me at least) is the /r/brasil subreddit. While technically you have a majority of left-leaning people there, often you have to engage to the most brain dead discussions and toxicity, specially when it relates to the Ukraine war and China. I can’t count how many times I’ve been called a tankie or something because I pointed out things are not simple as black and white.

Mostly on the main subreddits