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.
Just check out /r/politics here, it’s not reddit-specific.
Seems tame here? Unless you hate women or healthcare, then I guess it could feel biased.
I definitely don’t hate either of those things, but OP describes Reddit as an “outrage machine”, and I’m just saying that we have the same thing going on here. It’s definitely not as bad yet, it’s just sad to see Lemmy fostering the same kind of outrage that Reddit has.
Redditors are migrating here, but still bringing typical “Reddit” behavior with them, dehumanizing their political adversaries in comment sections and spewing hateful rhetoric to anyone who disagrees.
Yeah I agree. Lemmy is rapidly mirroring Reddit from its early days. And without good mod tools, it’s going to be tough to police such behavior as time goes on. Platforms are rarely the problem, it’s the people posting.
Can you provide a specific example of rage bait? I’m all for punching Nazis, but that’d get me banned on Reddit for saying out loud.
Compare what you see here to Voat or 4Chan or similar “free speech” platforms.
I wasn’t specifically referring to “rage bait”, I was more so referring to the “chamber of anger” that OP mentioned. Navigating this site on the app I’m using is kind of buggy so it’s hard to switch from writing a comment to looking at posts quickly. Here, the second post that I looked at had a hateful comment upvoted to the top of the thread: https://kbin.social/m/politics@lemmy.world/t/134903/-/comment/532776
Same type of comment that you’d see on Reddit, sad to see this place quickly turn so hateful.
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As someone who hates both women and healthcare I can confirm r/politics feels very biased.
I won’t fall for your ruse for a second and propose that in fact you are just getting your jollies with us, and hoodwinking us into thinking you really do, when in fact, you don’t!
Unrelated, but it’s kind of weird that !politics@lemmy.world is US politics even though there’s nothing American about lemmy.world
Probably due to reddit’s r/politics being centered on USA politics. A lot of communities are redditors migrating their subreddits to a lemmy instance, and lemmy.world is the most popular with them.
The web is American.
The web knows it is American because it knows what isn’t American and it also knows what it means to be American by knowing what doesn’t mean to be American.
Yeah in the short month-ish I’ve been a part of a few different lemmy instances the level of “political empathy” has taken a nose dive in the past few days IMO. I think that sadly with such a fast migration from reddit the opportunity to form a different culture here is simply drowned out.