Aight I’m out. Deleting my account. Happy?

Thank you for your comment. It was talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been said before, unafraid to reference or not reference, put it in a blender, shit on it, vomit on it, eat it, give birth to it. Missed the point completely.

I don’t care about internet points, I care about the behavior. I strongly dislike having someone get upset enough to go through my profile and interact with my other posts. It’s worrisome when it’s over something this small because it’s likely worse when it’s something bigger.

Come back when you’ve had to file a police case when someone tried to dox you and messaged your boss on LinkedIn because they lost an argument and thought I shared confidential client information for something easily publicly verifiable. People who act stalkerish online need to be called out and banned when it becomes a problem.

Holy fuck, ~56 in Canada in the 21st century. We had 3 months last year that beat Canada’s total.

Sorry but I’m not going to put in effort into a post if I’m just going to get shit on. There was a comment I made a month ago on c/technology where I replied to someone calling another user an idiot fanboy. I basically said that user’s comment was well-written minus a few things so they were being a little harsh and that people can have their preferences at the end of the day with owning a MacBook.

Big mistake. Checked my phone a couple hours later and my inbox had 11 replies all shitting on me and OP. Might have been my biggest negative ratio on here to date (~5/40ish up/down). So definitely more than 3 people lol. It’s why I don’t post/comment there anymore.

I am literally Lemmy’s target demographic (non-binary/queer, Linux user (arch btw), mid-20s, leftist, etc) and I still feel like I have to watch what I say. At least nobody has tried doxing me yet on here and made me file a police report like on Reddit, so yay?

I’m not, but downvotes are rare and are separated from upvotes in my app. So when I see a bunch out of nowhere when there were none before then it’s obvious someone got a little unhinged. Sorry I’m aware of my online presence. Having internet stalkers will do that to you.

Yep, it’s really frustrating. I used to be a decent contributor in statistics, analytics, machine learning, and Linux oriented communities on one of my Reddit accounts before deleting it in June. Thought I could find a better home here but I’m not interested in contributing if the culture is so negative to anyone who doesn’t fit the FOSS/Linux crowd. Like seeing mass-downvotes of well-written contributions along with rude/dismissive comments screams “you don’t belong here” to people and will absolutely inhibit Lemmy’s long-term success.

Don’t care about the votes as much as I care about someone being unhinged enough to go through and interact with my entire post history. Dealt with enough weird behavior here.

They used the same name on their alt instances

I hate my face too, you ain’t special

Maybe I should add a little context, as honestly it’s much more around the annoyance of having to deal with people that are unhinged online. Dunno what it is about Lemmy specifically, but I’ve definitely encountered more people here per post that will go through my comments/posts to comment and downvote over nonsense than elsewhere.

Like in December, I had the audacity to ask if someone’s post really belonged in the community they posted it in. He proceeded to harass me by downvoting and commenting on my stuff across THREE accounts with no repercussions from admins on either the LW or Reddthat instance their accounts were on. Mods temp-banned him from a few communities it took place in and it calmed down once I blocked the third account and stopped posting for a bit. Then I had a mod on a power trip delete and downvote some of my comments before I got him banned less than a month later over covid misinformation.

It’s one thing if it’s just downvotes on a single comment, but it’s uncomfortable having someone go through my stuff and be that upset at me over nothing. People on Reddit and Twitter have tried to dox me with one dude messaging my old boss on LinkedIn trying to get me fired for discussing why Reddit is severely overcharging compared to industry partners I work with during the API fiasco.

Lemmy needs to make it a lot harder to interact with post/comment history through profiles, as having at least some barrier would help offset the more mildly-unhinged people.