world has changed, real life is way more cringy than it was in 2010 too.

and if you don't embrace the cringe, people basically accuse you of being a bigot, that's the new thing.

Seeing the evolution of "cringe" has almost made me lose touch of what cringe even is. What do you classify as cringe...? Because for me it'd be stuff like copypastas :3 oWo XD. Roflcopter.

If you go to the right spaces (or the wrong ones, I guess) it gets a little crazy quick. Might be your instance blocks the really extreme instances which would mostly insulate you.

easy. say something that goes against lefty talking points, especially on a social issue.

easy example. when i first bought my condo i rented out the extra bedroom for a couple of years. seems a pretty innocuous thing, you'd think.

according to a large chunk of the lemmy users this makes me a sociopathic mass murderer who is morally unredeemable and must be murdered for my 'crime' of being an evil landlord.

not sure, but i never got that reaction on reddit for the fact about my life. or say you console game, use windows, etc. people here will come out in droves to tell you how horrible and racist and shitty you are. i'm not sure how using Windows/Mac computer makes you racist, but according to many weirdos here, it does, because their do these weird logical leapfrog arguments where a windows programmer once made racist tweets and therefore if you use windows at all ever in any capacity you are explicitly racist...

reddit was stupid but i hardly ever got the level of vitriol and insanity that I get here on a fairly regular basis for my 'normie' views/activities. I am way too 'mainstream' for this place, but on reddit I was considered a crazy leftist... so I just laugh, but it's still annoying and offputting.