Watch for this behavior and you will see it often.
If a Lemmy user can call out the age of an account he or she will use that as a way to dismiss and degrade the post that he or she does not agree with.
Y’all would enjoy Lemmy a lot more if you just focused on the post and stopped feeling compelled to rummage through someone’s post history.
Sure, if that person has extreme political views, is a Nazi, or is astroturfing then maybe you have cause but clicking every single profile to find dirt to make an argument showcases your poor debate skills.
No, it’s because if someone makes an account for just one post, they’re most likely trolling, banned from the community on their main account, or just have such consistently terrible takes that they always get heavily down oted and they care too much what people on social media think.
If you stick to the same account and keep posting, people will block you, which gradually increases the amount of people who see your post and agree with it.
If you keep making new accounts to complain about shit, the same people are going to keep down oting you, because they can’t block you.
It’s really not complicated, but a very very small amount of people just can never understand it.
Facts.
Personally I think it was less of a problem before the influx of people from reddit, a portion of whom imported their bad behaviors. Several lemmy communities were much nicer prior, and now I don’t participate in them anymore.
(I am aware of the irony of my using a new account right now, but I was the same name on lemmy.world prior to giving piefed ago)