Reddit community is probably the worst and most toxic group of people I’ve ever had the displeasure of interact with on my life.
It’s nearly impossible to have a serious discussion without a single rage bait comment.
I tried for the last time talking about a theory I made up, pretty serious post and a little long, then I go back to read if someone kindly tried to argue or show reason in the comments, the first comment I see is:
You don’t have a theory, you have a fantasy
It’s just insufferable, I don’t know why I keep interacting on that shitty platform.
While it’s true you see the same behavior on Lemmy sometimes, it’s incomparable to Reddit. I truly hope there’s not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it’s just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.
I’ve seen some Reddit-like toxicity here a few times but it was pretty rare overall. It’s a reasonable decent place to discuss and interact with others.
But Lemmy has built a somehow different community I can feel it.
It’s not just a replacement to me anymore, I see as something with true value that Reddit won’t ever provide. With its own issues as well.
But compared to Reddit omg, I don’t understand, it seems like Reddit people are constantly fighting and trying to kill each other, there’s no health discussion of any sort.
I guess I should value Lemmy more, at least for now, it’s a good place overall.
Reddit was always more toxic than not. Lemmy is still toxic in places, but the worst of it is contained in its own echo chambers. Lemmy has cross-instance drama more than cross-community drama.
It’s just easier for like minded people to congregate around the instance of their choosing rather than just a single subreddit or specific Lemmy community. That does cause community fragmentation, but personally, I would much rather it be that way.
My point is that people are still just people and that toxicity is still around. We are able to self-segregate, so that helps a ton.