I’m just done responding to assholes. Because that’s what most of the responses were - by assholes. Whether it’s passive aggressive or just direct, you’re still an asshole. It proves my point down to the tee about everything I’ve talked about here.
If you’re going out of your way to try and disprove someone by being an asshole, by being an asshole too. Guess what? YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE! So fuck you.
The fediverse is only better because it isn’t ran by Spez and his crazy dumb ideas, nor is it owned by shady companies with enshittification in mind.
However in terms of just online behavior with users? No, I feel that it is more or less similar than it is on Reddit.
Users prompting responses from me that they don’t like, so they go on downvoting parades. Yup, that’s a Reddit thing.
Users antagonizing me and of course, getting responses in reflection to said antagonizing before prompting with downvote parades. Yup, that’s Reddit too.
Users with twisted logic who engage with you just to take a shit on you and try digging for reasons to report and get you banned. Totally a Reddit thing too.
Oh I almost forgot, whenever you mention ‘downvote’, income the ironic users who’re like “D-DUH-DUH-DUWNVUTE!”
The only difference is that users of that caliber, can come from an different Fediverse server when everything is centralized on Reddit. The asshole volumes are just retained and that’s what the Fediverse unfortunately falls flat on.
Sure, call it an internet thing, but these are key platforms where people would prefer to spend their time on. One of which, people flocked to because the other decayed and corroded in time. But I’m having a hard time figuring whether or not it was the decisions Reddit made or the users.
I say the users.
It’s literally built in the image of Reddit. What did you expect? It to end up significantly different? Spez selling out was the most obvious and useless thing ever. It didn’t change online discourse. It only changed Spez’ bank account.
You should be happy there remains a platform where one fucking moron’s views of “discourse” isn’t the ONLY acceptable form of discussion.
Yes it should be different, not replicate the bullshit from Reddit.
Are you sure of that? I’ve monitored and check over the things I’ve said. I’ve noted that a lot of people really dig the shit I have said (evidenced from lots of upvotes) because that’s something either they would think or say themselves or what some agreed opinion others would say themselves.
That’s not a really good acceptable form of discussion, that’s called hivemind talk. That’s parroting what others say even if your intent is not to copy. It’s not strictly routed to Spez, it is what the users themselves that have crafted the community around and we’ve got years and years that can prove that, evidenced from what people say who come here disgruntled from Reddit who would share their experiences.
So because that the entire Fediverse operates similar in vein to Reddit in this fashion, the Fediverse has already failed.