Reddit is so toxic

That place really went to shit over the past year. Which is hardly surprising seeing how many good people were pushed away from the platform.

Good mods were replaced by power tripping shitheads and good posters and commenters were driven off when they couldn’t use their desired app and the subreddits they liked went to shit or were nuked. Meanwhile, bots are ruining everything else.

And let’s not even get started on the ads, the IPO shenanigans, the AI thing…

Reddit needs to be taken out back and shot. It’s the humane thing to do; we shouldn’t let it suffer like this.

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I recently finished season 2 of One-Punch Man and I looked to see if there were any announcements about a season 3. I came across a reddit thread about season 3 being announced and holy shit are people nuts. The animation of OPM season 2 wasn't as good as season 1, but it wasn't actually bad; it just wasn't as good as season 1. However, the reddit thread would make you think it was animated by preschoolers.

There’s so much hostility

Same here, to be honest. Except for Beehaw, every other place seems like a no-mod/no-remember-the-human land.

You’ve been here 9 months and haven’t witnessed it here?

Consider for a moment where you live. Now consider how we live.

People are crushed all day at both their jobs. They have their livelihoods stolen away from them to increase the profits of mega sized corporations and the 1%ers that control them.

The bi partisan police state is stronger then ever despite the George floydd protests (this is the 1% telling us the protests didn't go far enough by the way)

There is little representation to be had at the voting booth. You would think the conservatives would be happy since they can choose between two right wing parties, but even they want their shitty version of change.

This isn't a great way to live our lives for the majority of the population. Deep down, most people understand how broken and toxic living like this is, and it gets expresses itself through this toxic behavior. Not that this is any excuse for said behavior.

However, if you live in the shitter multiverse, don't be surprised shitty people are shitty after getting treated like shit by other shitters while living a exploitative shitty way of life. Shit.

On the topic of byzantine rules, I'd found out at sometime last year that a major subreddit had banned linking other subreddits...

In the 6 years I was there I thought that's what Reddit was all about, but what do I know?

The Fediverse is perfectly set up for linking people to new communities they might not have come across on their own.

Trying to figure out which rule I broke on Reddit and when it was implemented from moderators was a pain. In contrast, Lemmy mods have messaged me when they want me to edit my comment to conform better to the rules which was great. Lemmy public modlogs are also a huge improvement since while it can't stop tyrant mods/admins, it makes knowing how you crossed them much clearer for people.

tbh I've had almost exclusively hostile(-ish) exchanges on lemmy as well, but obviously going back to that morally bankrupt place isn't gonna be the answer.

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Like look at this shit. They're all throwing a fit because the poor guy said to not be so hard on the dog's owner, you'd think it was their kid that died not his. https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/comments/1bymgws/father_of_boy_killed_by_dogs_says_media_attention/

Depending on the community, a lot of the hostility could be from Russian/Chinese/N.Korean bots

So, I used to be a redditor. For eleven years, to be precise. Back then, for the first few years I was there, things were awesome. But as time went on, things seemed to get worse. Reddit has been on the decline for a very, very long time now. The community has become very toxic at this point; if you have an opinion they don't like, they'll dogpile you over it. They let their mods get away with abusing their powers (/r/SteamDeck is a great example), and they used to allow massive hate subreddits until the backlash caught up to them as well. All in all, they don't care about their users. All they care about is keeping those clicks up. I was recently permabanned because I criticized some mods who reported it as "harassment". Reddit is not a good place anymore, but they sure like to pretend they are.

My last interaction had me answering someone’s question then getting a permaban from some insecure mod who didn’t like that reality made them sad. I just walked away after 16 years.

I'm officially labeling Reddit as Nazi sympathizers, this isn't a joke I am completely genuine.

The reason I know about Lemmy is because a few days ago they permanently suspended my account for "glorifying violence"

The horrible thing I said was that "I should have a legally protected right to punch Nazis" in a post featuring a video where a big dude knocks a neo nazi the fuck out. They swiftly denied an appeal to this ban as well so fuck me I guess.

Even if you think that I shouldn't be allowed to say that, (which is stupid), I don't think it's permanent ban sitewide territory, especially when far worse things are happening on that site.

Some fuckwit had to actually manually flag that, according to their obnoxiously long DM about it.

On top of everything else they had the balls to say I should "familiarize myself with the TOS" like bitch you just banned me from the whole ass site forever I think it's pretty safe to wipe my ass with the reddit TOS at this point.

Come to @apple_enthusiast here and watch the haters play. I wish it were just reddit.

You get banned and muted even if you don't follow the rules. Also many of these rules are just umbrellas to give mods reason to surpress your ability to be heard if they deem fit.

The old site is only good for videos now. And old tech support stuff, if it hasn’t gone out of style.

Between it apparently using location to show you a front page even not logged in, and not being able to block sub reddits, i was just done with the website. I can't fucking stand /r/onguardforthee or all those other tim horton trademark half wit "patriotic" twats.

I find Lemmy more hostile actually, because my political views differ from the majority here. Many people here are just hostile instead, instead of accepting that we're different

Lemmy is overflowing with Nazi/Commie shit heads, which are constantly advocating for all sorts of violence, racism, etc and are supported by Lemmy mods and admins of different instances. If Reddit is toxic to you, then you must be one of them.