oldie meme but needed to bring this back due to recent incidents 😭

  • renrenPDX@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    What…. This is on par with any kind of internet discourse. It’s pretty much why I hardly ever post prior to Lemmy. It doesn’t matter how well articulated the post, SOMEONE will find the need to correct or clarify unnecessarily.

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      5 days ago

      it’s really sad because i take great pride and pleasure from reading other people’s thoughts and posts. but when i try to give back, it’s immediately jumped on by dogpilers and “oh you actually meant something else…” people. and when i do the bare minimum to defend myself, they slap back with the “okay buddy, sure” and downvote my defense so it’s invisible to other readers.

      needless to say my blocklist is nearing 100 users.

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        4 days ago

        and downvote my defense so it’s invisible to other readers.

        Lemmy isn’t an endless torrent of comments. Even downvoted ones get reached.

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          4 days ago

          hmm i honestly just don’t understand what the post is trying to say. it’s a bit unclear to me but im sorry there was confusion and hard feelings going on

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              4 days ago

              see i agree with that statement when written out like that. the post doesn’t really do anything to get me to that notion on its own though.

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                4 days ago

                Hm. Maybe it was too subtle? Cunk is explaining why “trolls pretending to be trans” is supposed to be a problem on Lemmy, using her usual brand of accidentally telling it like it is. Lemmy only has a “troll problem” because Lemmy users hate trans people. No trans hate, no troll problem. If everyone respected trans people, nobody would be getting called a troll. If anyone actually tried to troll that way, they’d be met with acceptance and have no power.

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                  4 days ago

                  hmmm try workshopping different ways to express this thought, i’m quite lost sorry :(

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                    4 days ago

                    All drag’s friends on Discord understood the joke on their first read. Drag isn’t sure where the misunderstanding is. We’re currently in a voice call trying to figure out why anyone doesn’t understand this one. Drag’s friend suggested maybe you don’t think Lemmy is full of transphobes, but drag thinks you do, since you’ve said Lemmy is very misogynistic, and those two things go together. Maybe you didn’t understand that Cunk is supposed to be wrong about the trolls actually existing but right about what the problem the users have is?