Obviously, the internet has always been a toxic place, (the phrase “flame war” has been around for decades,) but it seems to have gotten so much worse over the last few years. I used to think decentralization of the internet would fix the worst of it, but Lemmy seems to have gotten worse alongside the rest of internet culture, proving me wrong. How do we fix/improve this culture of toxicity?
Yes, I notice when reddit implemented that version of blocking… things got much worse. And people just started blcoking anyone who remote disagreed with them… it was suppose to be for preventing people from harassing you, but that’s not how people used it.
pre-block reddit was a lot chiller place. it was much more interested and diverse and for me was a good learning place, but once people started echo chambering themselves in my communities, it got nastier and nastier and the qualify of content and good faith exchanges dropped and hostility skyrocketed.