Was this you?

Don’t even pay attention to downvotes, they don’t really do anything unlike reddit

My guy if you can’t handle 2 or 3 comments being harassed by trolls or vote brigades (that don’t even do anything) you are gonna have a shit time literally anywhere on the internet

Also instance and user block feature. Use it.

I guess it depends, personally I find it way better than the alternatives. Sure you have people with different opinions but thats a good thing, just block the trolls and assholes and carry on.

Well I mean when I read through your posts you’re pretty hostile to lemmy.

So maybe it’s you.

Nobody can force you to stay here if you don’t enjoy being here anymore.

That being said, your post history isn’t that bad at all. We all say things that garner heaps of downvotes sometimes, and that is especially going to be the case in more heated communities like those related to politics. Honestly, I don’t even think up/down votes should even be a thing here and copying them from Reddit was just importing toxicity, but that’s just my two cents.

I care. Sorry to see you go. The fediverse can still grow, I suggest you at least stay to lurk and see. It’s just not happening at the pace we were all hoping for at the time. Is reddit really that much better? You’re not an asshole for being honest

I’m in no position to tell you to stay or go, after all it’s your life to lead, nobody else’s…

Having said that, I can’t help but notice from taking a rather cursory glance at your post history that most of your posts are pretty well up-voted.

The only posts where you seem to be heavily down-voted are political posts, which by their very nature will invite disagreement - this is especially true when the posts you’re making touch upon rather controversial/inflammatory topics.

And if that’s what you’re complaining about being down-voted for, then you’ve really only yourself to blame for inviting that disagreement into your life.

Looking from PieFed I see this at your profile page : Joined: a year ago - Attitude: 91%
That is a pretty high score. In your Lemmy settings you can disable downvotes or any votes, or choose to only see percentages. Some Lemmy instances like Reddthat.com have no downvoting enabled at all.

I partially agree. I do think that people in Lemmy - including me - are getting more hostile than before, but I also think that this doesn’t tell us the whole picture.

Lemmy is slowly developing its own social norms, apart from the ones in Reddit. This means that a lot of behaviour and discourses that would be accepted in Reddit aren’t accepted here, and vice versa.

I’ll give you two examples of the later. I don’t know if any applies to your case - again, those are examples.

1. In Reddit, it’s common to use certain disingenuous forms of argumentation, such as using “I don’t understand” to convey “I disagree, but I expect you to waste your time explaining your view in minimal details while I keep distorting it”. (It’s a type of sealion BTW.) Here people are far more eager to call you out.
2. If you derail a non-political discussion in Reddit with intrusive politics, there’s a high chance that you’ll be downvoted or even told to fuck off. Sadly, here people are a bit more eager to give you a free pass, as long as they agree with your political view.

There’s also a third factor that likely plays a role: here you can see the exact amount of downvotes. In Reddit you don’t, you just see the total score. So for example, a post at +25-10 here will show that you got 10 downvotes, but there it’ll show simply “+15”.

Maybe you are gone already so won’t see this.

But I actually agree with your central point that the politics and tech communities on Lemmy are full of strife and hostility that doesn’t need to be there. Actually most of the rest of it seems fine, but if you care about politics or tech, the quantity of dickheads get hard to ignore.

My strategy has been to pretty aggressively cull some communities out of my subscriptions, and then make a little hobby out of attempting to disagree with some of the dickheads good naturedly in places I still subscribe to. Be the change you want to see in the world and etc. I don’t always succeed.

I have to say, skimming over your user, that it looks to me like most of the time when you get downvotes, it’s not because of anything opinion based, but because you’re being hostile and dismissive of the other person’s point of view – sometimes like instantly right out of the gate, like “oh great I’m sure this thread is going to be FULL of people saying wrong opinion X which is obviously wrong”… which is exactly what you’re saying you’re sick of. IDK, man, you could be right or wrong. But being hostile about it and actively trying to pick fights with the other viewpoint even before anyone has shown up to express it seems like it’s not exactly gonna draw people gathering around you throwing roses and warmly embracing you if that’s what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for lots of fighting then sure but it sounds like that is not what you are after.

Like I say I gave up on certain communities because of what you’re saying. I won’t say at all that your assessment is wrong. But also I do think there’s a certain degree to which (again just saying what I’ve seen looking back a little) you’ve created exactly the strife as well on your side.

Do we have a justunsubbed magazine?

Is it surprising to you that posting this right wing shit got you down voted? Denying the lived experiences of residential school survivors?

Bye now…

You’re not wrong. It’s just reddit 2 now here. I barely post anymore with all the tankies, trolls, and idiots.

80% of the Internet is troll farm owned.