Lol people are toxic everywhere.

Every time we get a wave of fresh influx, it seems to bring a fair number of upset people here. I’m not particularly surprised, they’re coming from a less-pleasant environment just in general.

People do seem to settle down a little bit after they get some time to unwind from that all, though.

Honestly, I’ve found this place to be a lot more toxic than Reddit, especially when it comes to tech.

This place feels too political sometimes. I’m alright with being political, but just with the right amount.

The communities I frequented in Reddit were pretty positive. I see more snarky comments on Lemmy, but I’m posting more here, so maybe I’m just getting more interactions.

I thought so until I went back to reddit and saw the difference. Just today there was a post on PublicFreakout about Just Stop Oil sitting in front of a bus and over 300 comments wishing the bus driver would have ran over the protestors and killed them. It was actually insane.

No, but certainly seems that Reddit has turned into a cesspool of right wing ideology.

Kinda? Maybe not explicitly toxicity, but some passive aggressiveness.

I’ve grown pretty accustomed to stuff like that – you get used to it after spending so many years on open forums.

I used to try to “clap back” but I realized that’s a waste of time and it doesn’t help whatever situation the person on the other side might be going through. I now tend to just move on and keep myself busy with something else.

I’ve never see that much toxicity on Reddit to begin with. Most of us came due to Spez.

I mean, the toxicity wasn’t a reddit thing, it was the users. Reddit was big, so many were there. Some of those users moved. So it’s here on lemmy too now.

I’ve been called an idiot here a couple of times, but I think I’m drawn to the irrationally angry people

Me, i am the toxicity that migrated from Reddit, I am Dimethyl Cadmium.

I don’t know about toxicity, but I despise seeing the same damn low-effort, popularity seeking, and pointless questions on asklemmy as askreddit is polluted with. Really not a fan, and I downvote every single one.

I have gotten downvoted a good amount for comments that lean more right or contrarian, I don’t really know if that can be helped and that’s not the majority of my comments so it doesn’t ruin my experience or anything. But it does contribute to an echo chamber.

Mostly annoyed me because on the Liftoff app it wouldn’t show comments voted below zero on my profile and I used to want to check back in on the further discussions my comments spawned.

Are you asking about a specific episode or community of toxic behavior that originated there but has found its way here? If so, then my answer is no. Granted, I haven’t visited that other site in such a long time, I likely wouldn’t know if some specific instance of toxicity here was actually related to something over there. Also, I mostly avoid the communities here that are named similarly to subs over there which always seemed to be a magnet for drama or poor behavior. Mostly.

But if you’re asking in a more general sense, then my answer is yes(-ish). I have experienced and seen a fair bit of toxic behavior and numerous toxic users here. In many cases, the behavior and mannerisms mimic the toxicity I was used to seeing on the other site. So, I presume it’s something that originated there and then subsequently migrated here, but I obviously couldn’t say with complete certainty and absolute proof.

Granted, that’s not unexpected, and as other folks have already commented, toxic people and toxic behavior are pretty pervasive and ubiquitous on social media sites.