• iByteABit [he/him]@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    People here are way to eager to get into political arguments out of nowhere, usually in bad faith. The front-page is covered with doomscrolling content, being here too long makes me miserable and hopeless. The rest of the content is mostly tech stuff, which can only be interesting for so long.

    What I miss from Reddit, is the variety of diverse communities, people having fun and polite conversations, a sense of humor, and a lot of happy content or stuff that’s interesting but not limited to tech.

    At this point, I feel like the technology is much better and the user base much larger, but the user group is so extremely specific.

    I wish people from all political spectrums would engage in a civil conversation here and not reduce it to mockery and attacking. What’s the point of discussion if no one leaves with something new to think?

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      1 year ago

      Where on reddit were you having political conversations that were “civil”? That was certainly not my experience.

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        1 year ago

        I feel their point (and my opinion too) is that the diversity of content on reddit makes the political conversations a lot less front-and-centre.

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      Unfortunately, the centrist viewpoints are the ones you get when you sort by controversial on Reddit. But they’re there and oddly, they’ve usually got a few up votes these days.

      Lemmy, or at least lemmy.world is ultra liberal. I’m liberal leaning, but if you disagree here you are smashed into oblivion.

      I guess it’s good there’s not a general karma system here.

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      1 year ago

      I highly disagree Reddit is diverse with more civil and polite conversations, I would agree ten years ago and right now is far left with more bans from power tripping mods.

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        I don’t agree with the “far left” part but I do agree that the last couple of years have gotten ridiculous with the bans from power tripping mods.