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Does the threadiverse (Lemmy + Kbin) seem ruder the last few weeks? (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by Cube6392 to c/chat

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I dunno. I just feel less like I'm experiencing a fun new tool for communication the last few weeks. The communities here on Beehaw are still great and fantastic and aren't what I'm bothered by. It's just when I venture out in the world (which I often do) that I notice conversations are much more argumentative than I remember them being.

How's everyone else doing? Is this a minor vibez check?

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[–] Cube6392 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal approach has been that the history of the internet is fragile enough as it is. I've left reddit for good. I don't need to burn Reddit down in protest. I'm fine with it having a passive rather than active death

[–] Lowbird 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand this take. For me, though, I wasn't willing to let reddit to continue to make ad revenue from my posts/comments (e.g. from their turning up in google search results) or sell them for LLM-shenanigans (of course, my comments can be scraped off lemmy just the same, but at least a megacorp isn't claiming ownership over them).

I don't regret it at all, either. It feels rather refreshing to not have that trail floating around on the internet anymore (well, mostly. I'm sure I didn't catch everything.)

[–] Cube6392 3 points 1 year ago

I definitely hear this, understand it, and respect it. I'm never going to confront someone asking them why they did that, or telling them they were wrong to do. But sometimes I see someone getting on someone's case about "why are you even here if you don't hate reddit and YouTube and twitter with all your heart" and it just bums me out