If it’s just about intrusive off-topic political discussion, then I fully agree with you: it’s far more common in Lemmy than in Reddit, and sometimes it reaches a point that even people who’d otherwise enjoy discussing politics roll their eyes and say “not this shit again”.
However, if “toxic” includes other forms of undesirable behaviour, then Lemmy is considerably less toxic than Reddit. For example: sometimes you see here that sort of disingenuous and deliberate stupidity, where a user distorts the OP or a comment to back up their [often idiotic] conclusion. In Reddit though? It is not “sometimes”, it’s all the bloody time. Same deal with “waaah TL;DR!!!”, the “I don’t understand” conveying disagreement, passive aggressiveness (considerably worse than open rudeness), so goes on.
It depends a lot on what you consider “toxic”.
If it’s just about intrusive off-topic political discussion, then I fully agree with you: it’s far more common in Lemmy than in Reddit, and sometimes it reaches a point that even people who’d otherwise enjoy discussing politics roll their eyes and say “not this shit again”.
However, if “toxic” includes other forms of undesirable behaviour, then Lemmy is considerably less toxic than Reddit. For example: sometimes you see here that sort of disingenuous and deliberate stupidity, where a user distorts the OP or a comment to back up their [often idiotic] conclusion. In Reddit though? It is not “sometimes”, it’s all the bloody time. Same deal with “waaah TL;DR!!!”, the “I don’t understand” conveying disagreement, passive aggressiveness (considerably worse than open rudeness), so goes on.
Yeah that is pretty much what i meant.