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I know the real answer is reddit but I really don't want to go back now that I've already grown used to life without it. I was hoping for Lemmy to be a viable substitute but it isn't. I can see how this place is wonderful for the certain type of person but that person is not me. My experience during the past 6+ months has been a net negative and I'm pretty much ready to move on. I just don't know where else to go.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 10 points 8 months ago

What have you tried? There are communities of all types on here. If you say something, there are definitely people who will agree and others who will disagree. Most will express it quite badly and few will give a thoughtful response. Reddit, I find, was much worse at nuance.

/r/askmen for example was open to anybody asking questions while /r/askwomen was heavily heavily moderated and didn't allow diverging views. /r/science turned into a place for science memes. /r/politics was just a battleground for left and right wingers calling each other names, and places about men's health were consistently attacked by other subs. Reddit seemed like twitter's second coming - with communities.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

/r/askwomen was heavily heavily moderated and didn't allow diverging views.

Oh my god yeah, that one was a bit ridiculous. I have a vague recollection of trying to help someone in a thread with like a domestic abuse situation or something and the mods quashed my comments because my comments had an opinion and I'm not a woman (mind you nothing I said was remotely sexist and it was a comment thread on an existing comment).

/r/signal was also a bit ridiculous. Rather than having a discussion on the merits of Telegram's design vs Signal's design for the average person, I got temp banned for "intentionally trying to compromise people's security" or something like that.

Reddit seemed like twitter's second coming - with communities

I will say Reddit never topped some Twitter Trumpies calling me a caribou diaper baby ... that was particularly deranged and such a strange insult lol

[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Rofl ๐Ÿฎ

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 8 months ago

caribou diaper baby ... that was particularly deranged and such a strange insult lol

That made me laugh. It's more hilarious than an insult. Maybe they are comedians in their free time?

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 2 points 8 months ago

No idea, I think they were just that strange... Their entire reply was majorly conspiratorial to the point of complete derangement then it went into this deranged ad hominem "caribou diaper baby" and I think some more stuff I don't remember.

I think they were probably a Twitter troll ... honestly I left that conversation a few IQ points lower, I try not to think about it ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Lol are you complaining about the way people treat men's rights subs??

[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I mean, my eyeballs read 'Men's Health'...

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 8 months ago

Prime example of such behavior.

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