No, just an uptick in complaints about it.

Makes me pretty proud if my subscription list, honestly.

Not that I've noticed, but the whole world is growing more toxic as far-right ideology becomes more and more accepted everywhere, so I wouldn't be surprised.

No, fuck you

/j

It's more along the lines of people making an elephant out of an anthill. Your average person is a draa-addict

I've not noticed that in particular yet. but it might be because I block accounts that don't add constructively to the comments, so maybe I'm not seeing a lot of the worst behaviour.

There’s a setting in voyager that shows you how you voted on other people. I use that to block people… if you are -5 to me then I’ll never see you again 😘 Lemmings.world people are among the worst somehow.. just saying

Nothing outside the usual to me.

But that’s another good perk of Lemmy: if you don’t like this instance, join another or create your own.

Excuse me?! Are you saying I'm negative?! Are you trying to start a fight with me, bro?! I am THE, I mean THE most positive, fun and likeable person on THE internet, bro. THE.

I’ve seen a lot of hard exclusionary leftists making noise outside of the triad.

Reading the comments here brings up a question I've had. Does it really make any difference what instance I'm on? I thought the whole benefit of federation was that it does not matter where I'm coming from.

Re: the title: Yes 😔

Compared to election season? Nah. But everybody sees different stuff on Lemmy.

Welcome back, I've been here the whole time and currently it seems a bit more toxic and hostile than when RIF shut down, I feel there are a couple more contrarians now than before but it hasn't been a steady decline. There has always been the odd jerk and troll on this site. I would say the time Lemmy was most wholesome when !cat@lemmy.world flooded the front page with black cats, it was such a cute problem for us to have. Anyone else remember that?

Like others I'd say it's cyclical month to month. This year there's daily doom in the news with US politics. If you want to avoid that then block !news@lemmy.world, !politics@lemmy.world, !usa@midwest.social, and other news and politics if it fills up with Trump posts. 2024 was a lot more hopeful and I think that reflected in the average user's demeanor even if there was bothsidesism, Gaza stuff, Ukraine stuff and Trumpism stuff. You'll be informed of important developments as Trump stuff leaks out on occasion but you don't need to be constantly engaged. Also if you do curate your All/Local feed then maybe some new communities sprung up that need pruning to fit your desired vibe.

Also: If you see a crapton of comments on a post with low votes then you know best to turn and run from the thread where most of the comments are.

The world has been deteriorating a lot in recently years and inflation is high.

Seems the same as it’s always been. Was it always negative? Do I not feel like it’s negative currently?

I’m not sure.

I think it's always been the same. I've received weird ass hostility before but it's been consistently spaced.

I don't think so, it's just a dynamic that any platform (including Reddit) has, and like always, it depends on what community you join and what instances your account is federated with.

Things are quite politically tense right now, and it doesn't help that there are also a lot of issues outside of that sphere (enshittification, Windows 10 EOL, etc...) that could make people angry as well, and have heated debates.

Also, with any influx of people, there may be tensions as the userbase has more voices from different viewpoints, and some may escalate while others won't. You do have the ability to pick and choose who your admin is (instance), where you want to post, and where you'd like to visit, and you can make your own community without restrictions, so if one method of moderation in a community seems out of your preference, feel free to explore an alternative.

Yup, lost of people here accusing others of being "genocide apologists" for expressing even the slightest approval or agreement with Harris or Biden on anything. Yet, somehow, they don't seem to want to criticize the current administration, blaming everything on the liberals as if they're the ones solely responsible for this mess. Curious, isn't it.

Lately? Were you not here during elections when a bunch of kids were accusing everyone of supporting genocide?

Not really. But I purposely avoid any politics related community.