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.
Yeah, I agree 100%. I remember Reddit from 12 years ago, where discussions were lively, but it was mostly trolls who would get downvoted. Now it’s just an ‘I disagree’ button. Sharing and discussing different opinions can be fun, even if they are different as long they are not hatefull. We shouldn’t hate on diverse opinions, that’s how we can learn from each other, in my opinion.
Hopefully, Lemmy will remain somewhat smaller so that we can have more quality discussions and not turn into an outrage machine, with people acting like they are holier than the Pope.
Online discourse has gotten to the point that if you disagree, you’re hateful
Hate is a meaningless word now, like so many over used words in this climate
This very post conflates outrage with hate. Change can start from within methinks, even though I’m not usually an individualist.
The outrage usually is outrage over perceived hate
Yep, I saw a guy comment that “communism doesnt work” the other day on here and the first reply was someone calling them a “hateful bigot” and I was confused, since nothing in the first guy’s comment had anything hateful in it, just a statement about communism not working.
Words like fascism and nazi have lost their meaning and people basically use them as a stand in for I don’t like what you are saying