Has anyone else noticed this, across the fediverse, Lemmy specifically. A lot of new users, but also a lot of first posts that are very inflammatory/rage baity.

Do we have another legit influx of new users? Or do we just have some bad actors trying to stir the pot? Or maybe I'm imagining it.

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's not only about many people here being technical, of course you're right that it plays a big part, and it's also that the Fediverse is a rejection of for-profit, closed social media, so there's a HUGE crossover between its users and the FOSS community (including Linux users) who really take strong issue to many things about Windows (and Mac) that Windows users consider to be normal. And with Lemmy especially, the initial userbase was largely anti-capitalists, since Reddit was banning many of their subreddits and was exploiting their users for profit with ads, blocking third-party apps, and bending to the demands of media companies and their owners. So plenty of people here are political about software.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 3 points 1 month ago

I totally understand, but it is also why many people I know come, have a look around and are swiftly gone... I was trying (badly) to be pretty generic in my point, you said it a lot better than I could think of at the time

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Nah im greatful, someone said "your first problem was using windows" 7/8 months ago here and I was you know what let me try linux just to complain about it to you, and I never went back lol