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.

  • LichbaneLB@lemmy.world
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    Anger is an extremely effective way to spread an idea.

    Posts which incite emotion in you make you engage - upvote, comment and share. CGP Grey (a redditor himself) made a great video about this a while ago.

    We can only hope Lemmy users are more self-aware, and choose to engage with things they enjoy more than things they hate. But given human psychology, it’s unlikely…

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      If Lemmy stays just niche enough to keep the hoardes of angry internet users away, I think we might just have a goldmine.

      Reddit didn’t always use to be such a cesspool of hate. I think as things grow and attract the masses, they attract the type of people that are only on the internet to be driven by their emotions. The up/downvote system solidifies that too.

      My thinking is that you can have a campfire with 20 people around it and still have meaningful conversations. Put 1000 around that same campfire and shit will go sideways.

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        The up/downvote system solidifies that too.

        I keep saying this even as former reddit users keep wanting the same damn karma system here :( this isn’t reddit and I don’t want it to be. I hope lemmy’s friendlier culture survives the influx.

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      I think the old forums had it right and I hope we can see that persist here. Don’t need karma or algorithms to surface content, just mid-size/smaller communities and good moderation.

      I’m mainly lemmy.world right now and have a few federated subscriptions, but I imagine at some point I’ll branch out and spend more time on the local feed of some other instance because I’ll be chasing that mid-size population.

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      I wonder if the increase of porn will affect this. From past experiences I got the impression the people and/or the way they communicate changes when it becomes a platform to search for fapping material. Either because it attracts a different type of person or because it changes interaction between users.