I have been on reddit for just about 12 years now. Something I’ve noticed over time is just how hateful the place has become. A complete outrage machine. Every single sub became filled with it. I’ve filtered so many subreddits over the last few years, it’s insane. I don’t know enough about this place to be sure, but I do hope it doesn’t become the same type of echo chamber of anger.

  • @JusnJusnEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    I definitely don’t hate either of those things, but OP describes Reddit as an “outrage machine”, and I’m just saying that we have the same thing going on here. It’s definitely not as bad yet, it’s just sad to see Lemmy fostering the same kind of outrage that Reddit has.

    Redditors are migrating here, but still bringing typical “Reddit” behavior with them, dehumanizing their political adversaries in comment sections and spewing hateful rhetoric to anyone who disagrees.

    • @app_prioriEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Yeah I agree. Lemmy is rapidly mirroring Reddit from its early days. And without good mod tools, it’s going to be tough to police such behavior as time goes on. Platforms are rarely the problem, it’s the people posting.

      • @JusnJusnEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        I wasn’t specifically referring to “rage bait”, I was more so referring to the “chamber of anger” that OP mentioned. Navigating this site on the app I’m using is kind of buggy so it’s hard to switch from writing a comment to looking at posts quickly. Here, the second post that I looked at had a hateful comment upvoted to the top of the thread: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/134903/-/comment/532776

        Same type of comment that you’d see on Reddit, sad to see this place quickly turn so hateful.