I notice this especially with my Norwegian learning. People are rude, call me names, or make fun of me on Reddit for using the wrong word or “en” vs “et” or using a direct translation because I don’t know how they say it in Norwegian, like saying somethng like «Ingen av bedriften din!» instead of «Dette er ikke din sak» (according to the casual version of Bing Translate) whereas a Norwegian-speaking Fediverse member would just say something like “You’re doing good, but it’s actually _____.”
there are still some pretty cool posts with interesting comments, a lot more than reddit.
but there as it grows there are more and more stupid people who are just here to be angry and hateful, who think anyone who doesn’t agree with their biased agendas is hateful and angry and who just sling personal attacks at other commenters. because they aren’t interested in the issues at hand or discussion of them, they are just interested in feeling superior to the ‘enemy’. and their post histories are usually quote pointed in regurgitating whatever grievances they have, like thinking everyone who doesn’t agree with them 100% is a Nazi, and deserve to be subjected to violence…
my first sitewide ban from reddit was 5 years ago and it was because I have an outdoor cat, and the ‘cats must always been indoors’ nutbags reported me for promoting animal abuse. was a real wakeup call to how incredibly toxic people can be over other people being different than them and how willing they are to use violence and harassment to silence others… over a difference of animal care choices. God, I own a dog now and I have had ‘raw food only’ idiots lecture me how I’m abusing my dog for feeding her regular dog food… and then they go on and on about if you can’t spend $500/mo on BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) you shouldn’t’ be allowed to have a dog…
to me it feels like the idiot nutbags I knew in college who would come into the cafeteria and scream about how they were on hunger strike and if you weren’t too you were evil, are now literally everywhere.