scrolling in the comment section of this news article, i've only seen people either being concerner/shocked, and some sarcastically talking about recycling or something. Nothing about masturbation.

And if your criticism of lemmy is that it's being reddit with elitism, then why try to gatekeep the way people are going to react to an article on c/science? Are we all supposed to have degrees in chemistry or biology before making a comment?

Believe it or not people take heavy news a million different ways and react differently. People ending up making a masturbation joke after discussing microplastics in testicles (i assume this is what happened) harm nothing and no one.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've already blocked them so I can't link though I reported it too so maybe some mod woke their lazy ass up and deleted it as they should have.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That lazy ass is a volunteer spending their free time filtering our crap.

That mods (need to) exist is also a symptom of bigger issues, ideally we don't need mods and are capable to self organized in a respectful way.

This is not reddit, you have the abilities to make a better science place on the fediverse, be the example of how you think it should be done. (Get off you lazy ass or understand that life for most is more then social media.

Its not perfect but its that freedom to disagree and build your own that sets us apart.