Posted this on shower thoughts but Ig here is more appropriate, I feel like lemmy is not the place I remember it being last year.

I really liked the atmosphere of civil arguments and understanding here, which is the reason I started posting actively as well, even though I have always been a lurker, but I feel like I have stopped feeling happy but instead more and more agitated when browsing, I remember people having civil discussions and willing to listen to others, content was low, but what each post produced was really high quality, nowadays though I rarely feel like it

People here have now started acting like as if they are some sort of god gifted individuals who are right in every regard, they love to throw the word ‘propaganda’ around but fail to acknowledge they could be a victim of it as well, I remember we could still have discussions about controversial topics without things getting ugly, nowadays it is not like that, comments get weirdly personal and sometimes even turn into insults and even phobic, people are hell-bent that they are right on certain issues, and never consider any other opinion or that something might be more nuanced than they think

I can be a victim of propaganda too, but what I really loved is that you were able to have healthy discussions and put forward your opinions, which meant you were much more aware of everybody elses opinion and their reasoning, which meant you could see things with different perspectives, nowadays though it is very different, you say something slightly controversial and be prepared for the hate comments (remember the mildy infuriating post? The guy ended up deleting it)

I have learned a lot from lemmy, and I have had wonderful conversations with some of you but I feel like the days where we all were collectively trying to build a good, happy and accepting community are gone, I won’t be surprised if any redditor looked us and thought we are a group of really closed minded people who wont accept anything that is not the common sentiment here

I was a little kid when reddit was gaining traction, so I have no Idea what sort of thing happened, maybe it was similar to this? I would really like if some early reddit adopters who also came here add their comments

One of my favorite moments I remember here is when there was some sort of meme about Ramadan, I clicked hesitantly thinking it’s gonna be a war zone, but I was surprised to see people having fun discussing how people deal with fasting where the sun never sets for months, that feeling was beautiful, I guarantee it will be a different situation now

    • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      This right here is the kind of nastiness I don’t want to see on lemmy.

      You can call out bad behavior without using personal attacks.

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        I think it’s a bit of a stretch to call it a personal attack.

        OP comes in and says “Smells like shit in here”. This commenter just checked OP’s shoes.

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        Decorum is for keeping reasonable conversations on track, not defending proponents of public executions from criticism.

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      9 months ago

      I am not ‘butthurt’ with people disagreeing with me, I am ‘butthurt’ that some people have lost all sort of civil sense

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        You made a long ass post about people not being civil when you promote violent public state sanctioned murder. Your terrible opinion does not deserve civility any more than someone promoting lynching, which are the non-state sanctioned version of the same thing.

        Asking if lemmy has peaked because of people criticizing your shitty opinion is the most butthurt thing you can do.

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          when you promote violent public state sanctioned murder

          I read OP’s post and must have missed this. Where did OP promote violent public state sanctioned murder?

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            It was in an earlier post about taliban publically executing a murderer, I said that I don’t know the exact circumstance but I can definitely see reason why you might do something like this, regardless whether it’s right or wrong, I find it hilarious that this person disagrees with me but also think I don’t deserve any respect because I hold an opinion contrary to him, and thinks the way to change it is calling me names

            A lot of people actually were providing pretty good arguments but I don’t really want to participate anymore

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              Please provide evidence of a single name you were called in this thread.

              Just one.

              Otherwise I think I see the problem.

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              So… You can accept people publically executing people, but people calling you names is a step too far? Am I understanding that right?

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                I am saying that people who think that people who don’t agree with them don’t deserve respect should not say that executing murderers and rapists is bad, I’d rather hear arguments of people which have a higher moral standing and provide arguments rather than descending straight to insults

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                  So, that’s a yes, then. You seem to think that defending public execution gives you a higher moral standing than someone calling you names.

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                    That’s just my opinion, if the guy had said ‘I dont agree, here are the reasons:’ he would have my respect, I don’t remember tho claiming anywhere I am absolutely correct 100% or me calling others butthurt because they disagreed with me, nor do I remember executing anyone

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              So if a lot of people were providing good arguments, why not just ignore the haters, and focus on the debaters?

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                I made this post because the ‘haters’ have slowly been rising (this post itself makes a pretty good case), ofc I wasn’t taking them seriously there, but they certainly wrecked the mood here

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          Well you and I can both have a long discussion about this, but the thing is you are not responsible for my opinions/beliefs/actions or vice versa, so I am not gonna bother, nor am I in any political field