I try to be a good an honest person, even on the internet where no one will know I’m a dog. I try to take people at face value when possible-- we all need to form our own opinions.
But I’ll be good fucking goddamned if every reddit post someone tries to be nice on is either met with blatantly superficial kindness in return, or an ass ton of downvotes… for some fucking reason only known to the hivemind.
I much prefer to be here-- here and Mastodon. In both places I’ve gotten to have conversations with real fucking people about real fucking things that I really fucking care about.
I love being able to educate people on things-- and have it be taken in stride as opposed to being viewed as speaking down or assuming someone is ‘stupid.’ I love the actual back and forth that comes of it.
The Fediverse really does give us the experience we had in the early days of the internet-- where if your opinion was dogshit, real life people would tell you and give you the reason why, without being a condescending jackass right back.
Anyway, love you Lemmy. Stay vibin.
I hear ya. It’s one of the aspects where Reddit is already dead since a long, loooong time ago: there’s no sense of community there, no sense of belonging, no sense of “home”.
And it’s always a fucking struggle to say something there without at least someone ruining your day, by outright distorting what you said so they can point trotters* at you. It’s the stupid interacting with the stupid and assuming that we’re stupid, because we’re probably stupid after interacting with the stupid for such a long time.
And they don’t care about information, that depends on a context to be useful. They only care about trivia, that might as well be noise. Because of that they end shunning away or silencing the users who are actually willing to contribute, like you, OP.
*just in case that someone emotionally attached to Reddit reads this, here’s a .gif for that person:
