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I have been on reddit for just about 12 years now. Something I've noticed over time is just how hateful the place has become. A complete outrage machine. Every single sub became filled with it. I've filtered so many subreddits over the last few years, it's insane. I don't know enough about this place to be sure, but I do hope it doesn't become the same type of echo chamber of anger.

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[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I started getting a 9gag vibe more and more.

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[–] bozzwtf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Seriously, thank you for this thread. I'm glad to hear it's not just me wondering this.

It's the day after the 4th of July in Seattle, so I thought see how many of my neighbors burned shit down by accident.

Instead I saw:

  • A car driving around shooting fireworks at people.
  • A young man getting stomp-mugged.
  • A child in a spiderman costume getting absolutely humiliated and assaulted by his peers.

Realized I wasn't logged in and this was just first-page BS. FFS it's a total depression, rage, hate-machine.

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[–] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Even on Lemmy, I've been seeing a bit of this. Like on the front page, for a day or two, there was that meme from LemmyShitpost about US incarceration rates titled "Happy Freedom Day... I Guess"

Come on, do people genuinely want to shit on a country on the day of it's independence that millions of people look forward to celebrating? Can they not keep their negativity and hate to themselves? Any comment that called out this circlejerk was just downvoted and was told that "Lemmy isn't the platform for you" and that Lemmy is only for "People that live in reality". Verbatim.

It's just saddening to see, and it reminds me why I just curate my subscription feed and never look at the general front page. Like yes, a collective outrage at the Reddit admin is what drove the spike in users as of late, but it feels different when you're shitting on other people and the things they're passionate about, for something undeserved.

[–] NiteAngyl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Whoa, don't you dare to disagree with the Reddit Hivemind.

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

While I agree, I feel like this is not a reddit problem and more a problem of the internet as a whole. The global population of english speakers on the internet has started trending to being madder and angrier over the past decade. I wonder if we make it out of this economic downturn and peoples lives become easier if it would start to get better? Fat chance of that happening though with Climate change going unaddressed and continuing to hurt the poorest of us.

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[–] blethanie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I think it's universal across the internet. I've seen the comments on ig get more an more aggressive too. I think we're all subconsciously anticipating conflict

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Yaron Lanier said that all social networks spiral down to the rabbit hole of hate. Even faster when helped by bots.

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[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Theres a lot of people here outraged, especially against capitalism for some reason

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[–] tsukii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

To be honest, you can say the same about Twitter

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Reddit's the new facebook. You're racist uncle will be talking about it the next Thanksgiving.

[–] Oddball76779@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

It's not a great place anymore, mind you it hasn't been for some time but now it's a shit show!!

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