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.
While I agree, I feel like this is not a reddit problem and more a problem of the internet as a whole. The global population of english speakers on the internet has started trending to being madder and angrier over the past decade. I wonder if we make it out of this economic downturn and peoples lives become easier if it would start to get better? Fat chance of that happening though with Climate change going unaddressed and continuing to hurt the poorest of us.
Its just what happens when capitalism set it’s site on something it can extract capital from. The base utility behind the internet is the sharing of information. The only way to extract capital from the internet is erecting barriers to that connectivity.
Basically the only way corporations are going to profit from the internet is to destroy it’s base utility. This is true for those capitalizing the social aspects of the internet. Political entities want to isolate and indoctrinate groups. Turning forums from a place to discuss political discord, and into recruitment grounds and echo chambers.