Reddit community is probably the worst and most toxic group of people I’ve ever had the displeasure of interact with on my life.
It’s nearly impossible to have a serious discussion without a single rage bait comment.
I tried for the last time talking about a theory I made up, pretty serious post and a little long, then I go back to read if someone kindly tried to argue or show reason in the comments, the first comment I see is:
You don’t have a theory, you have a fantasy
It’s just insufferable, I don’t know why I keep interacting on that shitty platform.
While it’s true you see the same behavior on Lemmy sometimes, it’s incomparable to Reddit. I truly hope there’s not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it’s just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.
I’ve seen some Reddit-like toxicity here a few times but it was pretty rare overall. It’s a reasonable decent place to discuss and interact with others.
That aside, I noticed “brain drain” in my favorite technical subs. Serious drain, as in “commenters haven’t even read documentation,” much less contributed any code.
Also, my favorite fandom subs have gotten more… echo chambery? Fanatic? Star Wars fandom-like, perhaps. They have a really shallow depth of knowledge now, but they treat it like gospel. Novels? Speculative lore/fanfics? No way, not anymore.
…Not that it matters.
I’m perma-shadowbanned on Reddit, for no discernable reason. And no recourse. So I’m certainly not contributing any expertise.
The point of Lemmy is an alternative to Reddit without the algorithmic bullshit, bot flooding or extreme moderation. There are plenty of other resons for Lemmy, so pick your poison.
Just stop interacting with Reddit completely. Trust me, you will he better for it. It’s just a shadow of what it was and is just regurgitated bot slop that was sourced from Reddit to begin with.
I only wish Lemmy gets the same kind of traffic. I needed feedback for something and now that is gone. But you have a point of leaving Reddit
But Lemmy has built a somehow different community I can feel it.
It’s not just a replacement to me anymore, I see as something with true value that Reddit won’t ever provide. With its own issues as well.
But compared to Reddit omg, I don’t understand, it seems like Reddit people are constantly fighting and trying to kill each other, there’s no health discussion of any sort.
I guess I should value Lemmy more, at least for now, it’s a good place overall.
Reddit was always more toxic than not. Lemmy is still toxic in places, but the worst of it is contained in its own echo chambers. Lemmy has cross-instance drama more than cross-community drama.
It’s just easier for like minded people to congregate around the instance of their choosing rather than just a single subreddit or specific Lemmy community. That does cause community fragmentation, but personally, I would much rather it be that way.
My point is that people are still just people and that toxicity is still around. We are able to self-segregate, so that helps a ton.
It’s mostly the very popular subreddits that conflict is likely to be encountered, and where mostly the smart-aleck assholes come to congregate and try to pit themselves against another like in a PVP server.
I remember when Reddit PVP was just a fun April Fool’s game…
Yeah it has been rough. Decade and a half old account, frequent poster, moderater, went out my way to be open minded.
Never a single ban, until two years ago:
One ban for catching someone lying, they were friends with the moderator I learnt later.
One ban for crypto facism I think it was? Why? Explaining to someone what a certain right wing political faction in the uk was and the upside to them being a protest vote to put pressure on current government to do better. Not even my views, was just devils advocating for someone elses opinion.For reference I’m a left leaning libetarian, there was no argument involved, just a zealous moderator who seemed really young.
A ban on privacy sub for replying to someone who said something political, tbh, fair enough, caught a stray as did others yet can’t fault the logic, just the punishment (perma so hot right now)
Last was on a literature subreddit where the moderator made some questionable changes, I and some others politely discussed the changes, were upvoted for it, that ruffled mods feathers and so we all got a permaban.
When you become a moderator on reddit they give you resources telling you how to act, what the goal is, etc
It became abundantly clear that reddit doesn’t care to enforce that. It’s all just words to feel nice.
Echo chambers, ragebait, tons of bots and fake interaction.
I just had to find an alternative and here we are. You can tell the quality of discussion is so much better here.
I hate to say it but also gen z (and gen alpha) not knowing shit about fuck is part of the problem. It’s hard to describe without sounding like I’m shitting on them. Cuz it’s not their fault.
My brother in law is a university professor and told me yesterday that the students he’s getting now can’t even read. He’s contemplating retiring early because of this.
And the kicker, he says that a college education is a waste of money at this point. He says you can learn a lot more on your own with just internet resources and no distractions from the people who are in college now.
I would have never been able to predict this sort of comment from him. It must be really bad.
I keep saying this when I was on Reddit: just avoid the front-page or just don’t interact with anything from the front-page. It’s full of immature folks looking for shallow dopamine hit.
I truly hope there’s not a mass migration from Reddit to Lemmy in the future or it’s just the beginning of the end for Lemmy as well.
I have a mixed feeling about this. On the one hand, I want to interact with more people and hear various perspectives and see more interests. I wish that the community that I was part of in Reddit could come here. But on the other hand, I agree that it could mean the same troglodytes will also flood Lemmy.
Unfortunately even niche has issues like this.
