This is not a SFW instance. NSFW communities will be tagged, and efforts will be made to keep SFW communities clean, but proceed at your own comfort level.
Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don’t support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.
And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it’s debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.
For people wanting the answer this was the subject of a Veritasium video.
for people who don't want to click the link
It’s B.
Don’t support Veritasium
What’s the story? What’d they do?
Sold out to some venture capital firm.
I hate this so much,
Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don’t support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.
And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it’s debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.
Lemmy sometimes feels like one big ball of barely seething social outrage.
So many didn’t grow out of their “I’m so special and unique, I don’t follow the mainstream” teenage phase and it really shows.