People are just going to disagree with you, argue, insult you, and at the end, you’ve wasted your time for absolutely no gain to anyone. There’s no benefit to posting anything on Lemmy, unless you need external validation - either confirming your perspective, or seeking praise from a third party.
Exceptions are when your profile is associated with some larger organization, scheme with an obscure goal, is an attempt to gather information, or the literal goal is to waste time, your own or others.
This means that every post not meeting those exceptions is an altruistic act that you should consider being grateful for. Someone expended time and effort for the purpose of entertaining you, a complete stranger, they’ll likely never know and never meet. They wasted their own time so they could improve yours.
Oh, wow, you have the patience for the bigotry of Facebook? That was the first platform where I lost all faith in humanity. Posting there in an attempt to combat maliced views felt like emptying the ocean with a leaky bucket.
That is my favorite aspect of Lemmy, too. I wish there were more places like it in the world.
I still use Facebook for a handful of more niche RPG fandoms, mainly centered on the World of Darkness game lines, its the only place I could find a moderately active community. But most of the time when I’m confronting the bigotry, its me just recommending people take paul’s advice in Galatians 5:12, which is basically Paul saying “yall assholes are quibbling over who is and isn’t Christian because of circumcision, instead of being good people, so just finish the job and make yourselves eunuchs.”
Oh, I saw a World of Darkness total conversion mod for a game I play just yesterday. I hadn’t considered it was so obscure that one would need to willingly traverse the cess pit that is Facebook in order to converse with fans. I hope that one day they have a thriving community in a permanent, respectable home.
That sounds as effective as it is fun to type out repeatedly. I don’t think becoming a eunuch would actually have that effect on a person, though, otherwise all women would be good people by default and that sadly is not the case. Unless there’s a womanly version of being a eunuch? 🤔