Unfortunately (?) on Reddit a lot of the comments are from bots - not even just the “everyone I do not agree with must be a bot” mantra but demonstrably as in it is word for word repeated from a duplicate post made often years in the past, presumably resurrected to increase “engagement” and therefore profits.
^THIS. And my ax. I also choose this guy’s wife! => all counts as “engagement” from the perspective of an advertiser.
And the humans are toxic AF. I resolved to leave Reddit regardless of whether I came here or not, bc I didn’t like what all that argumentation was turning me into. Conversations are just flat better here.
Truthfully I miss some of the toxicity 😁 it’s so, so easy to win arguments with random strangers, so much wrong stupidity. I know some of them are not real. Yes lol this is much healthier.
To fill that niche, there’s always Hexbear, or diluted 1000-fold, the still Alt-Left lemmy.ml instance.
I don’t begrudge someone being “stupid” or ignorant, I begrudge them being obstinate and willfully remaining that way, especially when it crosses over into taking away my own freedoms.
Unfortunately (?) on Reddit a lot of the comments are from bots - not even just the “everyone I do not agree with must be a bot” mantra but demonstrably as in it is word for word repeated from a duplicate post made often years in the past, presumably resurrected to increase “engagement” and therefore profits.
^THIS. And my ax. I also choose this guy’s wife! => all counts as “engagement” from the perspective of an advertiser.
And the humans are toxic AF. I resolved to leave Reddit regardless of whether I came here or not, bc I didn’t like what all that argumentation was turning me into. Conversations are just flat better here.
Truthfully I miss some of the toxicity 😁 it’s so, so easy to win arguments with random strangers, so much wrong stupidity. I know some of them are not real. Yes lol this is much healthier.
To fill that niche, there’s always Hexbear, or diluted 1000-fold, the still Alt-Left lemmy.ml instance.
I don’t begrudge someone being “stupid” or ignorant, I begrudge them being obstinate and willfully remaining that way, especially when it crosses over into taking away my own freedoms.