I deleted Reddit from my home screen when the mods did the fake strike and I’ve mostly kept off of it since then, but in the past few weeks I’ve opened it out of boredom and holy God is it just a truly awful place. My only explanation is that it’s a window into the psyche of the American middle class email job worker and they’re so fucking brain rotten that it hurts to even look at.
I thought I was misremembering or that was just a good meme, but that site really does represent the absolute worst of American liberalism. I don’t even have anything specific to say, I just need to scrape out the festering mass that a 15 minute scroll session there created in my brain.
Since the API thing it’s all bots and angry people.
its soooo angry in there. I use it to keep up with manga and game communities mostly, dont feel like having 8 discord instances just to know when a new chapter drops and the difference in tone on reddit versus something like tik tok is nuts, the redditors are constantly in a near catatonic rage state. It feels like a recent development too, I dont remember it always being like this.
It’s always been a rage bait generator. I’m sure it’s gotten worse, but people interact with reddit most when angerry enough to make comments. Always has been.
I really do think that made a difference. Don’t get me wrong, it was always shitty, but I think the people who stuck around and keep commenting are mostly the ones so addicted to arguing online they downloaded the official reddit app to keep going, while the slightly less brain broken people just said fuck it.
I gave it a chance because lemmy wasn’t quite ready yet. It’s better here now and I’m slowly spending more time here than there.
I’ve always preferred smaller online communities. I think you’re right though, there’s a sweet spot.
I went back a couple times because no instance has really got a large MMA community at this point and reddit had an active sub on r/mma.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been away for a while, but it did seem like there was a lot of anger.
Yeah I pretty much only use reddit for sports stuff and I’ve noticed there being a lot more aggressive weird shit on there lately. People are talking about sports like it’s politics. Maybe they always have and I’m just noticing it now though.
