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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’d say it’s roughly my experience with Lemmy as well tbh.

There are some good discussions to be had here, but I don’t think they’re necessarily wrong about the issues, just a bit overblown.

I think Reddit’s far worse in general though. I think it’s gotten particularly worse over the past few years, it’s almost Facebook levels of people looking at stuff just to make themselves angry.

Half of the /all feed is about obnoxious people and fights these days.

[–] Thrillhouse 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The r/Canada subreddit was taken over by far right wing mods and astroturfed to all hell with Conservative nonsense and Convoy support. I found myself speaking up more and more there because it was full of homophobic, racist antivaxxers and that is not an exaggeration.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Didn't help that most of us gave up and stuck to /r/onguardforthee

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

~~I don't see those fights you speak of, maybe I managed to avoid them ? Genuinely curious. ~~

Edit: I am a moron and cannot read. Thought the poster above was talking about Lemmy...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Half was a ridiculous over exaggeration, but I see so much /r/crazyfuckingvideos and /r/fightporn, /r/imthemaincharacter is another awful subreddit.

Recently people were getting whipped up about that YouTube prankster who got shot, it was posted a ridiculous number of times.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I am sorry I misread your post and thought you talked about lemmy... Haven't been to Reddit in ages...

Nevermind my question then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Was there an actual video of the shooting?