The internet is a brutal place at times. To some, it can ruin someone’s well-being. To others, it’s a Tuesday. But the apps I just listed can have stuff that makes you question humanity. So which one of them has the most comments that shows you the worst of humanity? And feel free to share examples and your reactions

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Here - I don’t spend any time at those other places so I have no clue what they’re saying.

  • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    Facebook makes me question humanity most tbh.

    IG’s algorithm is so well-attuned that I very rarely see content I don’t like.

    Twitter’s a dumpster fire I don’t touch. and Reddit is just phobic garbage nowadays.

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    Every platform has its crazies. Even here, I frequently come across takes so ignorant and disconnected from reality that I wonder if the commenter fell through a portal from some parallel dimension.

    Even on inane shit, the crazies really come out of the woodwork. I had someone suggest to me recently (on a different account) that I was a monster on par with Hitler for setting up Windows on my grandmother’s computer instead of forcing her to use Linux. She’s 87 and wants to type shit in word, she isn’t going to learn a whole new operating system and word processor for that when she can barely figure out how to log in to her email.

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    You didn’t mention it, but 100% Facebook. Twitter is 2nd, but the edginess explains some of it away as cringe insecure angst. Facebook is people who are largely just incredibly fucking stupid and sheeplike.

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    Twitter allows you to say the N word. And openly share racist shit. They allow you to dox and make threats to anybody that isn’t aligned with Musk. It’s also full of bots that retweet.

    The worst part is that it feeds Grok. So Grok-powered bots say racist shit that get fed back into Grok.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Instagram for sure. Insane amount of Nazi comment, ragebait, racism and overall hatred.

    I often feel like people on Instagram have not seen the sun light for a couple of months to a year.

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    23 days ago

    I see a lot of dumb or reactionary comments all over, but the most truly “what’s wrong with” ones? Here, unfortunately 😅

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    Definitely Lemmy. I haven’t really used Twitter or Instagram though. When I visit Reddit, it’s usually just through search results.

    Lemmy is often a very negative, dark place. It’s also lousy with armchair experts speaking with authoritative tone as if trying to demonstrate an example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

    I definitely don’t feel like I belong here, but I keep coming back for some reason 🙈

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      Really? I’ve found it to be the opposite. I left reddit because things felt so toxic with people yelling constantly about how we need to shut up and get with the program, don’t speak out, corporations are good, etc etc.

      Meanwhile here I’ve seen lots of people genuinely critiquing systems and lots of memes that are amusing. Are some of them darker? Of course, we live in dark times.

      But I also see many groups of people sharing information on alternative projects and programs to not be so reliant on the capitalist systems, sharing posts of how people are fighting back against the right wing fascist takeover.

      Hell, right under this post in my feed was this picture.

      I’ve found more hope and inspiration on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. Twitter was full of porn and Instagram is just a bunch of liberals (centrists) reposting reddit and facebook lol. Basically, a pressure release valve so you can post and “feel” like you did something without affecting any change.

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        I left reddit because things felt so toxic with people yelling constantly about how we need to shut up and get with the program, don’t speak out, corporations are good, etc etc.

        ??? Like I’m a reddit hater, but man you gotta go looking for that kind of agenda there

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    23 days ago

    I generally understand what’s wrong with people on every platform except for Lemmy. Lemmy has its own strange where you really have to work at how they got to where they are now.