My experience on this platform has been mixed so far but one thing I’ve noticed the most is a significant contingent of the user base is really reactionary in their discourse.

This is a very typical exchange I have here :

User: I don’t like this color because it’s red.

Me: I don’t know, looks more like purple to me. What about red is bad?

User: Why don’t you fuck yourself in the face you fucking cuntfuck!

Me: OK…

Like, what gives? I don’t have this experience on other platforms. I have arguments but never this shutdown meccanism.

  • TheFonz@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Thanks.

    The issue is I am argumentative. I like having disagreents and most of all I like hearing different points of view. If this sounds like a vanilla take, it’s because it is.

    If I disagree with people on fb or insta or ask to verify the facts of an event there I will get push back or I will learn something new. I will also hear some combative words. Nothing strange.

    If I ask about the facts of the matter here:

    • “blocked”

    • “troll”

    • “fuck you you cuntfuck defender of Kyle Rittenhouse. Eat dick.”

    • “I have you labeled as conservative removed

    On. And on. And on. But it’s OK, because apparently asking for facts is justification to garner this, right?

    What gives?