I was recently talking to some friends about Lemmy and the whole Fediverse idea, as it seemed like a really cool part of the Internet. As I was talking about it, though, I realized how unusually friendly this whole place is, and I joked that I “surprisingly haven’t found any bigotry.”

I’m wondering if anyone has come across that, by any chance. If it’s rare, my guess is that even though it’s decentralized, each instance has a set of rules and values that are shared throughout the Fediverse, and I’m guessing it’s easy to defederate with any seedy communities haha.

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    1 year ago

    Jeez, lots of comments to look through! I’ll definitely take a peek some more but a pattern that I’ve noticed from the few comments I’ve skimmed through is that it seems like a lot of toxic people do show up, it’s just that individual instances are good at removing them.

    I also haven’t been on Lemmy as much as I was on Reddit before I left, and I’m on a fairly small instance, so I guess that explains the lack of bigotry in my feed haha.