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Question to the ones that fully left Reddit
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this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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I left two or three years before the big wave, for precisely this reason. It really is a toxic culture – it seeps into your brain that you cannot say something mildly wrong or controversial without the mob snowballing your comment to death.
No one affords others any goodwill, because not doing so makes their own number go up.
I was on Mastodon for quite a while, because Lemmy wasn't a thing yet. And over there, you can only make people's numbers go up and the culture reflects that.
I do feel like the Lemmy model works better for unearthing content (Mastodon is more about people), but I can't help but feel like there ought to be a path in the middle.
It wasn't like that over here a few months ago, but unfortunately that's starting to change.
From my view the more of Reddit that comes here the farther right we go. My first experiences on Lemmy were somewhat off-putting because it was so far left I couldn't relate, like literally just ignorant anarcho-commie shit that doesn't have any basis in reality. Now I'm seeing more and more centrist and far-right-too-comfortable-with-fascism shit that I also can't relate to and feel repulsion from. Not sure what the perfect balance would be, but I think there was a day or so there where it might have existed on Lemmy.
Huge swathes of Lemmy are deeply transphobic. I've never seen such bullshit on Reddit. I agree there are more communists, and that's great, but unfortunately there are a lot of politically engaged and deeply ignorant people running large instances.
You missed it then because it was definitely there.
Yeah, that big wave brought a lot of that culture over here and it might be self-sustaining...