I’ve treated Lemmy as a fun, silly blog since I made my account. I love how you can freely post anywhere and as much as you like, unlike on Reddit. I’m also a teen who grew up online with unrestricted internet access and does online school, so I’m a bit addicted to being online. I love how much more interactive the comments feel here, despite it being a smaller platform. I’ve had fun reading and interacting with people. But I think I might delete my account and everything, because people analyzing my behavior and accusing me of things has started to get to me. Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender. All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles. I’m wondering if you’ve ever felt something similar.
Just block people.
And they can block you too.
There’s a lot of weird people on Lemmy, that’s not a bad thing, it’s normal for online spaces at this stage. But some people will dominate your time if you let them.
Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender.
“Online no one knows I’m not a dog”
That type of stuff rarely comes up, so when people just constantly mention it, it gets noticed.
So just stop saying it, and problem solved
Websites aren’t real.
Block the haters. Do what you want.
When I switched from Reddit to Lemmy, it was my opportunity to start a fresh feed.
I stayed away from things like relationships and AITA, because they usually just got me pissed off and fighting with people.
I keep a few political things because I do want to hear what people are saying about current events, but most of my feed now is jokes, and fun conversation.
The AITAs developed into Chatgpt testing grounds, so many stories that were clearly fake
Quite a few really good ones, though. I appreciated them as good short fiction.
I feel that whenever I scroll on a community that allows US politics.
I find it amusing when people try to analyse me. They spend all that time and effort only to be that wrong.
Anyway keep up the good work, you’re one of the funny people here even if you’re a Republican Chinese communist feminist MGTOW spy here to cause disharmony in utopia.
It’s interesting how negative comments affect me so much more than positive ones. I’ve definitely received far more positive feedback during my time here, but for every 100 positive comments, that one negative one really sticks with me.
If Lemmy is a service you’ve enjoyed and you aren’t trying to hurt anyone, why let random jerks ruin it for you and chase you off? Just block them and forget they ever existed. This is the way.
True. Maybe I’m just softer than I thought. But having someone write a whole accusatory paragraph about me when I’ve never even stirred the pot feels pretty bad.
Bruh it’s the internet. I’ve had people make entire websites dedicated to shit talking me
Don’t feel bad about it. He’s basically saying he thinks you’re too cool to actually be real, so you must be fake. Seems like a compliment to me.
I let Chatgpt do an analysis of you. It says you’re:
Thoughtful and reflective. Curious about people and perspectives. Comfortable blending humour with deeper topics. Independent and self taught. Enjoys engaging with social discussion and community.
It also guessed you’re an adult Internet user 20-40.
Did Chatgpt do a better job than your hater?
Chatgpt doesn’t do a better job at anything
because no matter how many you block they are starting to make up the majority of the replies/comments you see on threads.
plus there are unhinged folks who will go around harassing you, making up alts, and replying/downvoting you and taking something about your internet persona super seriously and personally.
Delete your account and create a new one. Problem solved.
But also, two things. First, always be questioning yourself. Those jerks might have a point. But second, jerks are jerks and you shouldn’t listen to them or be bothered by them.
If you can balance those two ideas, you’ll do really well online, and probably in real life too.
The jerks don’t have a point if they say you’re fake and pretending you’re younger than you really are, as OP mentioned elsewhere. There’s no reason to introspect if these are the accusations.
I have been online since 1993 and had been taught and continue to treat everything I post as if it will never be deleted. I don’t see a point in deleting my accounts when the data has very likely been duplicated the instant I sent it and could still easily be reposted or used by whoever has access to the database it is stored on; let alone the multitude of unknown bots and agents that may have duplicated it independently.
So, no. It never even crosses my mind because I think it is rather pointless. Of course, it is also because I don’t really talk about my personal life in detail enough, or use my real name online so my online identity can be linked to my real one and don’t have any fear of something I said when I was 9 being used against me now that I am 41.
The tech to link anonymous profiles to real identities end masse might not be ubiquitous, but I saw an article recently that says it exists using AIs. However, most AI is ridiculous so I’m not sure.
That’s why you gotta post using different posting styles, punctuation, slang, hobbies, and post times on different web sites with different accounts for the past 28 years (I am mentally ill)
