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Anon uses reddit (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just like literally everywhere else

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

You do see plenty of that in most places, but I feel like it's way worse in Reddit. As if there was something there reinforcing it. (Perhaps the local culture? I have no idea.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's the voting system. Truth is not democratic.

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

I don't disagree that the voting system (specially karma) plays a role, but I think that Reddit embraces oversimplifications a bit too much, and that's part of the problem - because then you get both sides discussing if 2+2 is 3 or 5, and if you say "it's 4" nobody will bat an eye (except to screech at you).

In special, three types of false dichotomy:

no gradation: 50 is either 0 or 100.
no third category: since apples and bananas are different from each other, then grapes must be either a type of apple or a type of banana.
no superset or subset: if all bananas are fruits, then all fruits are bananas.

You do see those things in Lemmy too, but nowhere as much as in Reddit; and it has consequences everywhere, including political discussion. Or in 4chan - as much as their userbases hate each other, they fall for the same logical traps.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

reddit attracts a certain special kind of moron, it's like a honey pot for them

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Source?

[–] M137 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's just as bad everywhere else online, IMO. Youtube and Facebook (including instagram, etc.) comments are unusually bad, though. The general feeling on any social media is that seemingly everyone is falling over themselves and others in a race to be so incredibly stupid and ignorant that it's gone several levels lower than should be possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I would classify the people on YouTube and Faceboom as a completely different class of special morons. They are all unique in their stupidity.