Unpopular Opinion
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I mean, the hype I saw was about it not being corporate controlled. When I'd see someone saying something about it being a nicer place, it was more in the "and because it's so small..." line of thinking, way down the list.
Has the hype team changed their focus at this point? It's pretty rare for me to leave the fediverse for online boils human interaction at this point, so it may be what people are saying and I'm just not aware of it
But, even back before the reddit api wave, it had its own toxicity. After that, there was a surge where it increased, then it went back to its usual. This wave seems to be following the pattern.
Mind you, I still find it to be less toxic than reddit, here on lemmy and the threadiverse. If a day went by and someone wasn't being a douche, an asshole, or a fuckwit on reddit, it was a great day. I can sometimes go a week without encountering such behavior coming my way, and I'm a bit of an asshole. When it's directed at other people, it gets reported and eventually handled, so it seems fairly low toxicity compared to reddit.
I'd say the same about Mastodon and the microblogging side of the fediverse too. Lower than twitter was, and waaaaay lower than twitter now.
But definitely not so low it's some kind of oddity. It matches more of the levels of the old web, where forums were more distributed. Still lower than some of the old web chat groups, those could make 4chan look healthy. A bit higher than ICQ was.