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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.
Idk i’ve definitely seen less groupthink in the voting on here than on reddit in recent years..
On reddit I cant even remember the number of times I’d seen practically the same exact comment/sentiment in the same context be wildly upvoted in one thread and obliterated with downvotes in another one. People’s votes on there are like 80% decided by the balance of votes already on the comment.