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Reddit slowly became filled with hate (lemmy.world)

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I have been on reddit for just about 12 years now. Something I've noticed over time is just how hateful the place has become. A complete outrage machine. Every single sub became filled with it. I've filtered so many subreddits over the last few years, it's insane. I don't know enough about this place to be sure, but I do hope it doesn't become the same type of echo chamber of anger.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Even on Lemmy, I've been seeing a bit of this. Like on the front page, for a day or two, there was that meme from LemmyShitpost about US incarceration rates titled "Happy Freedom Day... I Guess"

Come on, do people genuinely want to shit on a country on the day of it's independence that millions of people look forward to celebrating? Can they not keep their negativity and hate to themselves? Any comment that called out this circlejerk was just downvoted and was told that "Lemmy isn't the platform for you" and that Lemmy is only for "People that live in reality". Verbatim.

It's just saddening to see, and it reminds me why I just curate my subscription feed and never look at the general front page. Like yes, a collective outrage at the Reddit admin is what drove the spike in users as of late, but it feels different when you're shitting on other people and the things they're passionate about, for something undeserved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yaron Lanier said that all social networks spiral down to the rabbit hole of hate. Even faster when helped by bots.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

To be honest, you can say the same about Twitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it was gradual, it was an active admin corps that tried to build balance with progressive Redditors by allowing Nazi thugs free rein to brigade, troll, and spread their hate.

Yes it patently and profoundly idiotic to try and counter empathy with Aryan Christofacism.

And so we find ourselves in the Fediverse and hoping it won't go the same way again.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think it's universal across the internet. I've seen the comments on ig get more an more aggressive too. I think we're all subconsciously anticipating conflict

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reddit's the new facebook. You're racist uncle will be talking about it the next Thanksgiving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I agree, I feel like this is not a reddit problem and more a problem of the internet as a whole. The global population of english speakers on the internet has started trending to being madder and angrier over the past decade. I wonder if we make it out of this economic downturn and peoples lives become easier if it would start to get better? Fat chance of that happening though with Climate change going unaddressed and continuing to hurt the poorest of us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its just what happens when capitalism set it's site on something it can extract capital from. The base utility behind the internet is the sharing of information. The only way to extract capital from the internet is erecting barriers to that connectivity.

Basically the only way corporations are going to profit from the internet is to destroy it's base utility. This is true for those capitalizing the social aspects of the internet. Political entities want to isolate and indoctrinate groups. Turning forums from a place to discuss political discord, and into recruitment grounds and echo chambers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Whoa, don't you dare to disagree with the Reddit Hivemind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not a great place anymore, mind you it hasn't been for some time but now it's a shit show!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I found a lot of Reddit was around "This person bad" for whatever of a million reasons.

And, of course I got downvoted for saying so on Reddit.

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