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.

  • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Yeah to be honest I was deluding myself for a long time, I mostly just answered questions and stuff there about software, audio, music, graphic design or talked about movies and music, I would rarely ever get a thank you or even an upvote for spending time to answer people. I know it’s not the point, but it just suggests a pattern of rude behavior as a whole. I don’t know why people feel the need to attack each other all the time, you can attack the ideas of the post or whatever, but now people have a tendency to make it personal right away. It’s no good.

    • lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I don’t know why people feel the need to attack each other all the time

      For some, Reddit is but a PVP server of an MMORPG. Never a shortage of assholes thinking they’re smarter than the billions on Facebook.

      • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It does feel that way. I just wanna share opinions, I don’t want to debate people I didn’t sign up for that. Especially from debaters who start with an insult and then go on with every logical fallacy there is.

        • cinoreus@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          True, reddit does feel a lot more aggressive when you try discussing something, not just politics. Like that tone itself, something like " anyone who does this or doesn’t do this is really dumb/ piece of shit)" I have seen this sort of comments everywhere. I don’t like the subtle aggression it shows. I’ll be honest, lemmy has their own share of it, but it’s a significantly smaller share of people than on reddit.

          • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I’m guilty of it myself sometimes, but I recognize it and I’m trying to work on it, probably from spending so much damn time there.

    • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      I also like to help people there, but it’s not even worth it anymore.

      Sharing solutions or creating content on Reddit just helps to keep the platform relevant.

      Once people see there’s no value on Reddit they’ll go after different platforms, some of them naturally finding Lemmy.

      I like to help people but on this context it’s just not worth it.

      • etherphon@piefed.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Right, so after 15 years of doing that I was banned for wishing the president would have a heart attack. So I haven’t really been back to help out haha.