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I think the influence on Reddit was deeper than a lot of people have considered. The hivemind was so strong it made it difficult to have decent and useful discussion, even the puns that muddied down nearly every post's comments achieved that end. The amount of posts I've seen of people feeling much more comfortable actually interacting on Lemmy, in my mind, lends weight to how Reddit wasn't a place for objective dialogue. That's why it felt so adolescent, like sitting at a high school lunch table.
Yes, I got ground down by the same same discourse and tropes on post after post. I got especially enraged by "Came here to say this", which added literally nothing of value to the debate but would usually, somehow, have loads of upvotes
this
/s pls don't hurt me
Came here to say this.
/s hurt me daddy
that's why they do it: karma farming. And that's why I'm totally opposed to have Lemmy display user's karma anywhere
Reddits culture has become so...tiring. My interaction dropped significantly in recent years and more often than not I delete my comments as I'm typing them because I already know the response.
There was this procedure we developed in trollxchrm sub where we would create an alt for no other reason to absorb negative votes in the main subs when calling out the flagrant misogyny. That was it. That is all it took to be a troll on reddit. Simply defending a minority. The fragility of the average redditor is real.
It leans very heavily towards snark and very rarely towards empathy or interacting as though there's actually a human on the other side of the screen.
And yeah, that's exhausting. It takes very little effort to not be mean to strangers, but it seems like an impossibility for so many people online these days.
I wouldn't say it felt adolescent. Adolescence is full of misunderstandings about the world, but usually there's at least some internal logic where you can see how a wrong understanding is logically taken to the wrong conclusion. The start and end are both wrong, but the steps from the start to the end are right. At least that was what I remember from my days of adolescence.
Reddit actually felt more lazy than adolescent. It's like most people just couldn't be bothered to think (or read for that matter). The vast majority of comments just felt low-effort or even no effort (like the case where people just comment "This") and opinions are formed solely on "what's the first feeling I get" than then get defended into absurdity, because changing your opinion with new information is a cardinal sin on Reddit. Sometimes you could get an intelligent discussion but, especially in recent years, you get the equivalent of a thumbs up if someone agrees with you or just straight up hate if someone disagrees.
It’s like most people just couldn’t be bothered to think (or read for that matter)
Ugh! The number of times I got some snarky reply making a point that I’d just made!
If you can’t stand reading, that’s okay. Just go look at some jpegs or something. Don’t make it everyone else’s problem by being an ass.
My favorite has been the "I'm not going to read all that", which I've gotten on multiple occasions in recent years. And I get it, I tend to write long comments when I am trying to convey an idea but I'm not writing entire essays without a filter. I am editing it down to what I would consider the most important parts. But it seems I should strip away all nuance and simplify it to a ELI5 level and not have it longer than 300 characters? If I wanted to do that I would be on Twitter.
Yup. Sometimes, nuance is important. If someone’s “not going to read all that”, then okay. Just don’t comment then, either! They can’t possibly add something constructive to the conversation.
I'm so happy I haven't read a single pun or lyric/TV show spam thread since coming here. They were becoming unbearable, even worse then the proliferation of video shorts.