That's so true. There was this time I was checking a Linux community here on Lemmy and someone made a post saying he was trying this new Linux distribution and said he was having fun with it. I genuinely asked what he meant by "having fun" and I received downvotes and no replies. Then, replied my own comment saying "Oh my, downvotes and no replies, what a lovely community" and my comment was modded out. That totally killed my interest in Linux.

[–] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah people on the Internet tend to be very very jumpy at anyone It could very well have been that people just took your tone as condescending or whatever better adjective describes it. It isn't your fault

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah. Just got back for a 1 month ban from this community for transphobia when my attempt to call out J. K. Rowling for being transphobic was misread as defending her.

That was far from the only incident I've seen of people, especially on Lemmy, taking half of a comment out of context and getting mad at people for shit they didn't say. It's unfortunate.

No hate to the mods, especially seeing how common it is from everyday Lemmy users, but.. I'm just kinda sad.