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Another reason to leave Reddit: I forgot how hostile it can be (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by xray@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I've mostly left reddit and switched to beehaw, but I posted on somewhat of a niche tech-related subreddit today since there really isn't a community for that here yet. And wow, I got instantly downvoted twice and the first comment response was rude and hostile. All I posted was a feature suggestion for software that I thought would be useful and that a good amount of people would like based on other feedback I've heard. This is not the sort of topic that should be controversial or aggravating, and it wasn't like I made an ignorant post suggesting a feature that already existed or otherwise wasn't well researched.

This type of instantly hostile response has happened numerous times on reddit for various different topics, but I just haven't posted for a while, so I forgot just how shitty it can feel. It makes me really appreciate how friendly and respectful the community is here on Beehaw and on Mastodon. People seem to have good faith in one another similar to how the internet used to be in the old days.

Have you had similar experiences with Reddit and similarly opposite experiences here on Beehaw/Lemmy?

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[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Reddit was really good at the start, but they took too long to react to communities like: FatPeopleHate TheDonald FemaleDatingStrategy The child porn reddits

These people stretched their tendrils or worked around the admins, and eventually, were deeply engrained in reddit.

I'm not even sure why they didn't react immediately. But, I feel like allowing these communities to fester for years had real life consequences too.

I don't like that we can't make communities in Beehaw ourselves, but maybe, it is neccessary until later to prevent communities from showing up

[-] deephurting@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I've read that Aaron Swartz was tolerant of free speech in any way shape form, thus the acceptance of anything under the sun.

[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure about that, but definitely possible (free speech always sounds great, until the racists take over)

But, I did love how the toxic bigoted crowd all turned on Ellen Pao thinking she was stifling their speech (and probably because she is a woman), only to discover she had seemingly actually protected a lot of it, and then getting their communities banned soon after (not to the extent Steve needed to ban them though of course)

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