Weirdly intense and antagonistic internet communists. Like, picture that guy you avoided conversations with when you were 19.
This is the answer. It comes with the territory when you have a demographic that is nerdy and terminally online. This demo has more pros than cons, but I do find myself using the "block community" option liberally.
It's why I've found myself gravitating to the less defederation-happy instances. But a new user wouldn't know to do that.
Counterpoint: new users who don't know the ins and outs of the fediverse might join an instance at random and see significantly less content.
Oh whoops, I thought this was a parent comment and was replying from my inbox. Haha, I wasn't trying to troll.
The flavor actually tastes very cruel