people posting here are going out of their way to post – and it feels like every thought has more weight or sanctity or meaning when it’s being posted here, at the dawn of a new era and the fall of an old.
i’m spending more time actually reading and engaging with every comment, parsing the details and thinking about it, conceptually. versus just looking at garbage all day, garbage with a little bit of fentanyl in to keep you hooked
100% agree. I’ve been around long enough to witness the rise and fall of many social services, even “pre-internet” such as Compuserve and QuanumLink. As they grow, civility has a bad habit of declining. It’s a pipe dream to believe that Lemmy will forever remain pristine but I want to believe federated services have a better shot as mods and admins don’t have to be nearly as tolerant of bad behavior as on the major services. There’s no business pressure to allow toxic communities to live on simply because they generate clicks and, as a result, revenue.