I get it. This is the only place on the internet that has content that I dig, and it's a cesspool. I think this is mainly an online problem. I run into it in pretty much every group I'm in. Even ones that claim to be about peace and love. People love the anonymity of places like this so they can do drive bys on the "others" and they hit that dopamine button.
It's sad. I really want somewhere to go that isn't just completely saturated in irony and their own in-jokes. A place that when you call them out, they don't just say "it's just a joke bruh"
I feel like I'm tiptoeing around everyone else all day, but the second I try to be assertive, it's like I kicked a puppy. I'm never holy enough for the holier than thou crowd
When people engage in good faith, you engage, otherwise, it's best to just ignore it. As long as the mods are keeping out the Nazis and libertarians, I can deal with pretty much everything else or ignore it. Otherwise it's, ironically, abit of a game of ':mao-wave:' but that is every anon volunteer internet forum, so it doesn't make this place special. It's literally part of the medium. Unavoidable by it's very materialist conditions. Idk though, I've never had anything that got me banned despite bringing up issues before, so maybe I'm just not online enough (I am pretty sure I am too online).
I get it. This is the only place on the internet that has content that I dig, and it's a cesspool. I think this is mainly an online problem. I run into it in pretty much every group I'm in. Even ones that claim to be about peace and love. People love the anonymity of places like this so they can do drive bys on the "others" and they hit that dopamine button.
It's sad. I really want somewhere to go that isn't just completely saturated in irony and their own in-jokes. A place that when you call them out, they don't just say "it's just a joke bruh"
I feel like I'm tiptoeing around everyone else all day, but the second I try to be assertive, it's like I kicked a puppy. I'm never holy enough for the holier than thou crowd
When people engage in good faith, you engage, otherwise, it's best to just ignore it. As long as the mods are keeping out the Nazis and libertarians, I can deal with pretty much everything else or ignore it. Otherwise it's, ironically, abit of a game of ':mao-wave:' but that is every anon volunteer internet forum, so it doesn't make this place special. It's literally part of the medium. Unavoidable by it's very materialist conditions. Idk though, I've never had anything that got me banned despite bringing up issues before, so maybe I'm just not online enough (I am pretty sure I am too online).