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I kinda made this post out of spite for the fact the most previous post in this community, whose title I quoted/copied, was getting so many downvotes… At the time I posted this, the previous post had about a 30% downvote rate, and it really, really made me mad.
I am relieved tho to see people in the comments here who have real, actual empathy for their fellow humans. Thank you for contributing here.
It blows my mind how normalized it is to hate on those who are struggling. Especially in 20fucking23 when so many of us now are on the verge of it ourselves. Let’s be better, everyone - to everyone. I beg you.
One good thing about Lemmy still being a relatively small community (at least compared to major social media platforms) is you can actually recognise people and get to know each other. Sort of like old-school forums
I feel that, and I’m trying to be better about that here than I was on reddit. But…reddit had me used to not caring about usernames at all and it’s a hard habit to break.
There’s definitely a number of people here on Lemmy tho that I get excited about when I see them post or comment. And I’m trying to be better about recognizing the rest of the wonderful folks here too.
Yeah same for me I wouldn’t really look at usernames much on reddit because I wouldn’t recognise them unless they were “famous” accounts like the poem guy or whatever. Here I definitely do see the same names pop up often which is nice. It’s something I missed a lot when going from late 00s/ early 10s forums to reddit.