I had interactions like this person: https://lemmy.world/comment/13434977

A lot of them seem to be like the crazy Facebook crowd (not all).

But that being said, unfortunately, as Lemmy grows, I’m seeing more of that in general where we slowly move away from a “scientific” oriented approach, to half-truths and biased information.

So you’re probably right.

But yeah, people do complain a disproportionate amount about them (I feel like a lot of people screaming “tankie”, are similar to the trump crowd people)…

It’s been far better the past few days without them.

Honestly some of the discussions I have with lemmy.ml people don’t make sense in any capacity

I never saw the thread, but based on what I’m hearing, it’s animal abuse.

If you look at Reddit and Facebook they’ve both been mostly consumed by anti science communities which put people in real danger

We see communities like this create an echo chamber which grows and make it impossible to argue sanely.

The fact is, I have seen some increasingly toxicity in some vegan (and some other) communities on Lemmy too. And it is one reason why I left beehaw. Because they allow toxic communities to flourish (as long as they were driven by a minority).

I’d even go as far as the behavior of some of these communities look like femaledatingadvice/thedonald on Reddit slowly. It’s ok to have disagreements, but nobody and no animals should be put at risk.

The biggest issue with Reddit and Facebook was that they let stuff like this stick around it and eventually consume it.

It’s a good policy imho, and I’m happy to see it

Science should prevail