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?
Hostile? Yes, in the sense of purity spirals spiralling. Sometimes.
Insular? Maybe, but I already know I live in a bubble.
And then there are communities on Lemmy which feel both hostile and insular to me, like the one with “cars” in its name…
I’ve heard of “purity rings” but never “purity spirals”!
Everyone lives in a bubble, and that’s fine. What’s superlative is to actually check what bubble you’re in, and peek outside of it every once in a while. If only more people did that.
Any community that’s against something seems to end up that way. Even mildlyinfuriating, which is supposed to be just a lighthearted, general thing slides into rage jerk sometimes.