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Have you noticed basically no one downvotes here? The user base seems to be more accessible and emotionally mature in general so far.

I had an account from 2010, and over the course of the 2016 US presidential election is when I started noticing the shift. Society seems to have shifted in general. MeToo and BLM coincided around that time, as well.

kbin could be a bit bigger, but the collective reddit personality is downright insufferable, and I suspect it’s largely because of its size. There are just too many people with opinions as strong as they are different, and we’re often not any better off after our interactions with them.

Plus all the troll bots and fake AI posts.

It turns out, you just need to find some people who bite their lower lip when they see the whip come out.

I tried for a hot minute over COVID, and it was buggy as hell, but overall, a fun and active environment before they scrapped it.

I’ve been part of Discord for a long time, but it feels like there aren’t many general chat options, they’re all based around a thing I’m not familiar with and don’t like. And then so many servers seem to be children.

I’ll say, those chatrooms really helped get me through 2020. I found them a couple months before COVID struck and the lockdown was a lot easier with the friends I made in those chatrooms. It’s not something I think should be forced, but if it looks like the support is here, I’m making it known early on that I’m for it and would love it.

I do miss hot singles being in my area. I never met any, but it felt good knowing they were around.

You are root.