Why is the culture of hate growing on Lemmy? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago by Tea@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Why are most people here are negative and rude?

Just to be clear here, I am not talking about instance, rather I am asking about the whole community.

There is no one I seen here who even had expressed any passion towards anything really.

I cannot understand how did that happen?

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[-] meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

You are correct in your history for sure.

My comment was more focused on Lemmy and the reason for occasional outbreaks of nastiness. There is no algorithm in the sense you describe on Lemmy.

I meant to convey that what we see on Lemmy is a property that emerges from human interaction through this medium.

Our conversation may be an example of this. I made a comment that was short, but I thought it was unambiguous. Your reply was thoughtful and topical. But a short text requires you to fill in a lot of context. So you may create a slightly different picture than I intended.

This is a deep cut sci-fi tangent, but it applies. Being pseudonymous and not having durable social reputation makes for different human behaviors.

True Names by Vernor Vinge exceprt

The full story is available with a search on the title and author.

this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025

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