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I definitely don’t hate either of those things, but OP describes Reddit as an “outrage machine”, and I’m just saying that we have the same thing going on here. It’s definitely not as bad yet, it’s just sad to see Lemmy fostering the same kind of outrage that Reddit has.
Redditors are migrating here, but still bringing typical “Reddit” behavior with them, dehumanizing their political adversaries in comment sections and spewing hateful rhetoric to anyone who disagrees.
Yeah I agree. Lemmy is rapidly mirroring Reddit from its early days. And without good mod tools, it's going to be tough to police such behavior as time goes on. Platforms are rarely the problem, it's the people posting.
Can you provide a specific example of rage bait? I'm all for punching Nazis, but that'd get me banned on Reddit for saying out loud.
Compare what you see here to Voat or 4Chan or similar "free speech" platforms.
I wasn’t specifically referring to “rage bait”, I was more so referring to the “chamber of anger” that OP mentioned. Navigating this site on the app I’m using is kind of buggy so it’s hard to switch from writing a comment to looking at posts quickly. Here, the second post that I looked at had a hateful comment upvoted to the top of the thread: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/134903/-/comment/532776
Same type of comment that you’d see on Reddit, sad to see this place quickly turn so hateful.