Does the reddit style format inherently make for a toxic environment? Or is it a culture of toxicity from the influx of reditors? For lack of a beter example, on stackoverflow, when someone down votes you, it comes with a comment saying how to improve. On mastodon, people can’t downvote you. These platforms are a joy to use, lemmy is depressing if you post. Its depressing because every post or comment, no mater the quality comes with downvotes, and usually no criticism to accompany it, you are left not knowing if youve made a mistake, or if its just trolls, bots, or idiots. At the end you feel insulted not improved. What do you think?
the development on voat was incredible. once the hoards moved it went off a cliff within hours or a day or two.
I am fairly sure it is because of the instance I picked. when I click on Local instead of Subscribed my mood goes down. once in a while there is some spillover, and it seems to be following quite specific topics. So either I am out of touch with today’s youth (if the crowd on my home instance is representative), or there is a bias of the active users there and they are hungry for those topics.