

Those people purposefully bait confrontation. They go to where they know they are of the unpopular opinion, and loudly and obnoxiously escalate their bigotry until there’s confrontation.
Test this by calmly approaching them and asking what they feel they will accomplish with this- and see how quickly one of the “onlookers” whips out a recording device.

I’ve heard the differences as:
“Lemmy is where dumbasses go to act smart, and Reddit is where smartasses go to act dumb.”