A little maybe, but not much.
I’ve seen people say they left reddit to join Lemmy because of the toxic users. To each their own, but I personally think Lemmings aren’t much better. Some people over here can’t understand that sensitive questions can be asked without bad intent. People are way too defensive about their opinions.
It is disappointing, but it’s the better option.
It’s all kinds of people so naturally there will be all kinds of views, even those you disagree with. The alternatives are niche communities, in which you will no doubt also find people you disagree with, or corpo propaganda slop or echo chambers.
Ofcourse. I’m all for diversity.
But in a post I made, I didn’t even state an opinion, I just asked people’s opinion and I had an annoying guy accuse me of shit I didn’t do.
Unfortunately “I’m just asking questions” got co-opted by some awful people, and now the rest of us are stuck on the defensive, having to overanalyze “innocent questions” for underlying motive and potential "gotcha"s