I've really had it with Lemmy. I tried pretty hard to enjoy myself using this service but the people that have migrated from reddit are the worst of the worst. The constant US election bullshit and focus, the harassment communities, the drama, the targeting people I like has gotten to me in a way that I don't like and I don't know if I'm coming back.

I've been donating to the devs, running an instance and trying hard to participate in good faith. What did I get in return? A literally crazy person who pretended to be my friend then went nuclear and used alts to try and manipulate me and my community when it didn't go her way. That in particular made me sick to my stomach, they literally pretended to be my friend just to turn around and go to manipulation instead of discussion. They are one of the most active posters with a stream of low effort shit that no one really needs to read. Highly upvoted. I could have seen that anywhere else. Pretty soon after a bunch of people who focus on bullying users who are my friends was the end of the fucks I have to give. I feel like I've wasted my time and money here and I'm not really sure what my next steps here are.

Some loser I interacted with was the last straw, gaslighting me saying that because a thread was about the civil war that a discussion between two people one of who was saying chemical weapons was bad and the moderator of said community clearly saying how they work well against people in bunkers while running a community about military defense memes was too much. You fucking fascists and your plausible deniability behind shit posting is the worst and it isn't my reading comprehension, it is you being an inhuman fuck. This guy literally is a fucking basement dwelling troll with no life and why would I let them make me mad? They are the most pathetic person in the world and I hate them, this is a waste of my emotions. Honestly if I was online as much as that person I would be ashamed of how I was living my life. But they're not alone in their petty bullshit and hostility. The general community here is vicious with their down votes and silencing tactics and it really seems like there is a concentration of hopelessness and depression here. Especially the way people here are promoting a war in other places with all the mass death and destruction it entails while viciously silencing calls for ceasefire and peace make me sick. The fact that any view coming from anyone is smeared as Russian really speaks to how much American propaganda is infesting this place and their minds. In the end of the day, isn't it convenient how they can all sit in their homes thousands of miles away playing video games while promoting war, it is disgusting. If you support war get off your loser ass and go fight and see how it is. I can tell you as someone who has had a military destroy their family that no war is worth it, ceasefire is always the best solution to save lives. I wish I could just block and filter it all but then there is literally nothing left being posted it seems.

I had enough, I had enough with the Americans who dominate it. I had enough with the ratio of bullying to content. The way this is going has no future and I am tired of wasting my time. I like the cooking community and I will see if there is a way I can life boat that elsewhere but I for sure am not going to be posting on other lemmy instances anymore. You dipshits won. I'm sure these terminally online losers who dominate this service will be happy to sit there and post to themselves in a never ending circlejerk.

I'll see ya'all later when I have some food to share, otherwise I'm done.