"YOU" are not your argument. Disagreement is not an attack on you as an individual and should not be taken as such.

Good advice for life outside in the real world as well whenever possible. You can disagree without going thrermonuclear.

Lots of redditors are coming out of echo-chambers. In fact most of reddit has become one starting from a suffocating top-down control.

They've forgotten how Reddit used to be and so are astounded at how "uncomfortable" Lemmy is given its NON-pyramid like structure.

The discomfort is how the world and free speech needs to be and I'm a non-white Muslim typing this.

None of us is 100% right so we should always be exposed to other POVs and question ourselves to keep ourselves in check and evolve in objective ways.

I hope Lemmy keeps it this way and the money doesn't corrupt things as it always does. Believe you me, advertisers and nefarious actors are already reaching out to Lemmy authors to do exactly that.

It's nice to have a place where I can ask genuine questions without being called a complete idiot just for asking.

First thing I read on Lemmy and it's like I've found emotionally intelligent people finally.

I saw the same thing on Mastadon, just normal people capable of handling their emotions.

Western social media (and television) is promoting the worst in people and it can make users believe everyone is insane. So it's very nice to see this being posted.

Thanks!

this! I hope we stay such a friendly and open-minded community where one doesn't have to fear to say/write their thoughts.

Sounds pretty fascist to me /s

I've encountered some people who are not so... respectful with disagreements. I've made use of the report feature, however, it doesn't seem to be of much use.

Could we also have a rule saying that downvotes should not be used for disagreements? Downvotes should be meant for off-topic, or factually incorrect content. Disagreements should be debated in the comments, respectfully of course.