It's an environment that's mechanically centered around dunking on people. It's all upvotes, downvotes, and arguing. The design of the platform itself encourages it, because that's what it's built to do. Lemmy isn't really any different, it just hasn't had as long to develop the same level of toxicity. The same mentality is here too, though, and is growing pretty consistently.

A year ago Lemmy felt like a relative breath of fresh air in comparison to what it's quickly become. These threads are half arguments and the feeds are half people spamming 6 threads in five minutes to build up some sort of visibility.

Honestly I feel like Lemmy sort of tricked me into wandering into Reddit 2 after having mostly left Reddit.