Some subs are awesome, r/olkb, r/linuxmint to name 2. But bigger more general subs.... They can be shocking, I generally didn't bother with them.
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The good news was that it depended on the subreddit. Lots of small subreddits didn't have this problem. However, there were a number of large subreddits that exists for exactly that reason.
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I had to start sorting by controversial to find comments of interest in many threads since most the conversation was so generic and sanctimonious. That’s a big part of why this is a digg moment for me with reddit.
That's why I used third party apps and RES. When I left, I had filtered hundreds possibly thousands of subreddits
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It is same thing on every social media platform. The reason why I deleted Facebook and Twitter because I was getting angry all the time.
If you want to go way back, take a look at old BBSes or Usenet. The flame was commonly deployed. For many decades now people have used the internet to look at pictures of cats and also to talk trash or otherwise say horrible things. I don't think Reddit is different in any major way, except that on subs that were decently managed, many of the worst commenters were banned and the worst comments were often down voted into oblivion. It really did depend on the subreddit.
The fact that some people behave like assholes is not in itself anything indicative about a website working well or poorly. In real life some people behave like assholes some of the time too. Of course we have and should continue to take reasonable steps to deal with much of the badness, but we should never expect or aim for perfection on this front.
Can confirm, I've grown to really hate redditors over the past 13 years.
The users of reddit in no way mirrored the real world. I consider myself an indepentant in real life, I vote based off of issues that are important to me, I get my news primarily from Reuters and the AP, but I found myself filtering out more and more subreddits as they became filled with hate.
Neutral sounding subreddits such as Politics and News became hate filled groups that attacked anyone right of the far left.
I've abstained from contributing to reddit for years due to this and hope Lemmy doesn't experience the same hate filled fall.
I don't think it was gradual, it was an active admin corps that tried to build balance with progressive Redditors by allowing Nazi thugs free rein to brigade, troll, and spread their hate.
Yes it patently and profoundly idiotic to try and counter empathy with Aryan Christofacism.
And so we find ourselves in the Fediverse and hoping it won't go the same way again.
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