I’ve noticed that there seems to be an emphasis on being extremely serious at all times, as if every single comment is a PhD dissertation being evaluated or something. There’s like this weird, subtle one upmanship about every little thing and a lot of people are very nitpicky and judgmental. It kind of takes the fun out of being on here, TBH. Or am I the only one experiencing this?
I feel for certain instances this is true. I’m not sure if it’s people treating this place like Reddit in some ways, or if it’s people/bots trying to bully others out for not sharing their specific views, whatever the topic
I think there could be some bad actors at play trying to drive people out of the Fediverse; making it more Reddit-like with the bot bullying style would be an effective way for them to drive people away that don’t share their opinions. Mass downvoting your comments or posts can be part of the dog piling.
I see the behavior a lot more on Lemmy.world, hexbear, .ml, and .grad instances.