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In my early years of reddit, it always seemed like a place where people really knew what they were talking about. It was exciting!
That is... until I started posting about things that I really knew about and I quickly realized that most redditors had no clue and were talking out their asses, however convincing it actually sounded.
Yup. And the crowd latches onto whatever narrative they like more. Doesn't matter if it's wrong.
Are we still pretending that isn't happening on Lemmy? I'm cool with that, just DM me when we can exhale and be real about it.
Oh, it definitely happens here and everywhere else on the Internet. It seems to be just part of the human condition.
But since this post is bagging on reddit, and I'm still mad at the company's recent decisions, I figured I'd not rock the boat and just bag on reddit too lol
I will henceforth always be down to join in bagging on reddit. It’s just becoming aggressively shit these days. That IPO and the censorship it demands will end up being one of the worst things to ever happen to the site (it already has been, just in preparation for a sterile place for advertisers)—the others: