I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it’s rather cute!

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      Well a few months after leaving reddit I do feel a lot better in general so I’m not surprised.

      I go back occasionally to check for something or just to see what things are like. I dunno if it’s just gotten insanely more toxic since July or if it’s just been that way for a long time but oh my god. Every comment section is just angry and bitter and hateful. I was looking at a post yesterday and thought it was cute and interesting so I open the comments. Every single one of them were either saying it was fake, that it was stupid, that it was cringey, that it didn’t make sense, etc. It’s like no one has an ounce of positivity on that site.

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        8 months ago

        They banned those of us who were challenging the bitterness and hate. Whenever I’d argue against bitterness, they’d call me a bootlicker, and within a couple of comments, a nazi.

        Eventually, I got banned from reddit for being a nazi.

        So now that their “hey maybe stop being so bitter and take responsibility” nazis are all gone, they’ve concentrated themselves into an echo chamber based on resentment.

      • Nepenthe@kbin.social
        2·
        8 months ago

        It’s really a mix of both. More heavily the way the site has been for years because people love drama more than anything else. If you want the sweet serotonin of karma, you’ve gotta be simultaneously the funniest, meanest, and most jaded person in the room, and everyone is jockeying for that position.

        It just breeds assholes by design. I’ve noticed my own behavior has changed, too, since leaving that place, although partially that’s because I just didn’t want to be like that anymore.

        But it really has been noticeably affected since the protests. I was originally trying to stay for one single sub I was in, because they were the kindest, calmest community I’d met since back when forums were a thing.

        Just the best group, for reasons none of us really understood and some of us kept trying to find psychological commonalities to explain. Truly 98% of them were people I’d chill with irl and I still know a few on discord. And also here. If you’re reading this, hello!

        But the migration away was enough to completely alter the atmosphere imo. A lot of the more conscientious users left for other pastures, leaving behind those that were more neutral or even openly hostile about the protests.

        There began to be fights and insults thrown where before this, any aggression had been unusual. The posts took a turn that reflected that feeling and I really stopped bothering with the place after a few months. I’m still a bit sad about it and there are things that I miss, but there just wasn’t enough to hold me anymore. It seemed to increasingly echo every other part of the site.

        For the moment, this place is quieter but better. We still get dumb shit every now and then, but it’s not to the same degree and hopefully never will be. As above, I blame the demographic. We’ve grouped all the people with stubborn morals into a little room and it turns out they have things in common. I do miss a couple people I used to see everywhere all the time when kbin first ramped up, but we run in different circles and they’ve gotten lost in the crowd.

        And yes, btw, I am also going to name you one of my favorite users to see around. You seem as kind as you are prolific.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I dunno if it’s just gotten insanely more toxic since July or if it’s just been that way for a long time but oh my god.

        I feel like it’s a mix of both: the community there became bitter, more aggressive and more assumptive, while we (people who migrated out) got less used to how things work there.

  • SolidGrue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

    Most of you are alright.

  • BiggestBulb@kbin.run
    18·
    8 months ago

    Sometimes I feel like @The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website literally keeps my feed (and all my subscriptions) alive. Thank you for your service 🫡

  • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    I have a really bad habit of never looking at anyone’s names…

      • PorkRoll@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        8 months ago

        You’ll be having a perfectly nice conversation only to look up and see you’re talking to “uwu_yes_daddy” or “aryan_enjoyer88.”

    • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      There are specific users with emoji names that stand out a lot all of the time.

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Interesting! I wonder if the Eternity client doesn’t show that? I have never noticed it at least. I am also in the habit of never looking at names though. Maybe it is good to be in the habit of remembering names because it humanizes the people on the other end or so?

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      I view knitting as a state of mind. I think people are thrown off by the fideverse when others try to explain it to them, but once they use it they realize, much like the social media of old, they don’t need to fully understand how it works to enjoy it.

  • ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social
    13·
    8 months ago

    I wonder if others have some favourite posters that you they quite often?

    For me, it’s @Stamets and ThePicardManuever but I’ve noticed a couple other prominent posters lately although their names haven’t stuck for me just yet.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    8 months ago

    Yup, it’s fun. And im happily blocking all the tankies in between the great people. Account name like StalinSomethingSomething… nope.

      • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Yes but the glorification of the authoritarian all stars is so sad.

        The premise is “the west” is evil and anyone opposed to that is a hero and can do no wrong. No matter that these heroes and their actions usually conflict with all other ideals they claim to have.

        • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
          01·
          8 months ago

          Or you know… It could be that your impression is colored by ignorance on some of these issues, leading to false assumptions about what other people think.

    • Flax@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      I had a dream that I had a classmate who cosplayed as Mao Zedong constantly and even had the hair