Take a look over one of those huge toxic threads, and count up how many people are being assholes, and how many people are just there to type their happy little comments.
In my experience, the number of assholes is in the low single digits. It’s actually not that bad. It’s just that anyone who’s an asshole tends to amp up other people into a big spat, and also that they stick out (and attract more attention and replies) than the normal people. But there really aren’t that many of them. They’re just noisy.
Also, it helps to stay away from lemmy.world. For whatever reason, the shouty bad-opinion people tend to congregate there. I recommend Beehaw.
Take a look over one of those huge toxic threads, and count up how many people are being assholes, and how many people are just there to type their happy little comments.
In my experience, the number of assholes is in the low single digits. It’s actually not that bad. It’s just that anyone who’s an asshole tends to amp up other people into a big spat, and also that they stick out (and attract more attention and replies) than the normal people. But there really aren’t that many of them. They’re just noisy.
Also, it helps to stay away from lemmy.world. For whatever reason, the shouty bad-opinion people tend to congregate there. I recommend Beehaw.