Reddit has been dead for a long time.
It's filled with an extremist monoculture. The mere idea that someone might believe something different than the Reddit monoculture is thought of as if you're trolling, they are so used to seeing nothing but their own opinions that the only reason anyone might have another opinion is that you're trying to attack them.
For a long time I had a reddit account, and it was my main place to see things and have discussions about things. After a while I started to erase my account every few months because there was a very real threat of having some psycho track down where I lived based on hints in my posts. Eventually I deleted my account for the last time, because there was only one opinion you were allowed to have, and if you didn't have that opinion you'll be down voted into oblivion, banned from a subreddit, adjust face a torrent of low effort "refutations" that essentially beg the question -- the assumptions built into discussion mean discussions can't even take place.
A lot of redditors moved over to lemmy, and now lemmy has the exact same problem. There were once a couple decent instances that got chased off the platform, and the large reddit population now socially polices that platform too.
I have ended up on the fediverse, and it's absolutely incredible. The level of intellectual diversity is beautiful, I'm mutuals with on one hand people who have hammer and sickle in their name, and on the other hand people who have black suns and swastikas in their name. That doesn't mean that I endorse either ideology whatsoever, but it does mean that all across a broad spectrum I can see all kinds of different opinions and that's kind of what I want.
It's filled with an extremist monoculture. The mere idea that someone might believe something different than the Reddit monoculture is thought of as if you're trolling, they are so used to seeing nothing but their own opinions that the only reason anyone might have another opinion is that you're trying to attack them.
For a long time I had a reddit account, and it was my main place to see things and have discussions about things. After a while I started to erase my account every few months because there was a very real threat of having some psycho track down where I lived based on hints in my posts. Eventually I deleted my account for the last time, because there was only one opinion you were allowed to have, and if you didn't have that opinion you'll be down voted into oblivion, banned from a subreddit, adjust face a torrent of low effort "refutations" that essentially beg the question -- the assumptions built into discussion mean discussions can't even take place.
A lot of redditors moved over to lemmy, and now lemmy has the exact same problem. There were once a couple decent instances that got chased off the platform, and the large reddit population now socially polices that platform too.
I have ended up on the fediverse, and it's absolutely incredible. The level of intellectual diversity is beautiful, I'm mutuals with on one hand people who have hammer and sickle in their name, and on the other hand people who have black suns and swastikas in their name. That doesn't mean that I endorse either ideology whatsoever, but it does mean that all across a broad spectrum I can see all kinds of different opinions and that's kind of what I want.
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