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Jesus Christ, I could barely use Reddit when it was free. Can't imagine being such a tool I'd pay for the privilege of browsing that fucking ridiculous echo chamber. Moving to lemmy was the best thing I could've done. Wish I'd known about this place sooner. So much less ridiculous nonsense infighting and parroting basic ass taking points.
I'm not certain their point was the anti echo chamber thing. In other words the phony "free speech" thing that means you have to let bigots ply their rhetoric.
Reddit has serious problems localized extremum. To detach it from politicization take the 3D printing subreddits for example. For a while they were convinced it's the second arrival of Jesus. At one point it was said every household would have this appliance. Like a washing machine or refrigerator. You must conform to the talking points. Cryptocurrency is a recent one. There is no talking like normal people in those subreddits without being faced with scripted rhetoric. Real life isn't like this. In real life people don't talk like stump speeches.
That wasn't an attempt to be disingenuous. It was to mark a reference point in your text. You're trying to extrapolate arguments where there may or may not be any. That's no better than how reddit is.