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“Black people are the reason your life is so hard”
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Reddit you have to actively sub to a group, on other social media platforms they push "shorts" video and spam with lots of ads and "you might know" people. The ads on Reddit blend in which makes it nicer when scrolling through everything. >

I feel like that's been changing though. Recently I've got a lot of "subs you might be interested in" appearing in my feed. >

Occasionally that happens and I have been randomly selected to be added to some shitty sub with 27 people. But not to the extent that other platforms do it. Also I enjoy the anonymously. >

Who says that Reddit is less toxic than other social media? If you're hearing that from Redditors, it sounds like a biased source. >

People do, typically appealing to the more niche subs that can indeed have nice communities. But every default sub is still a vat of toxic brainlet sludge. >


But every default sub is still a vat of toxic brainlet sludge.

And the inverse: other platforms have niche groups with less toxicity too. >

I get sucked in pretty easily no matter which social media I’m on. What I like about Reddit is I feel like I have a bit more control over where I go and what I look at. There’s pretty much a subreddit for any interest or mood. ….. Not that it matters when you get stuck following links all night instead. 😅
Jokes aside, yeah, there’s toxicity, but I’ve also run into so many truly nice people. >

The ability to highly tailor the content you experience on Reddit is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing for the obvious reason, more stuff you like funneled your way with less bullshit. But that leads to a positive feedback loop, or "echo chamber". You are being fed what you want to hear and already believe. That's not conducive to healthy growth. Opinions or perspectives that challenge yours aren't inherently negative, and can often help change or refine your original view. >

True. I actively seek multiple points of view, so this was certainly a negative I wasn’t thinking about in the moment I posted. I was mostly thinking generals. You can find drama if you want, or if you aimlessly wander, but you can stick to hobbies or heartwarming, or whatever itch the scary subs scratch. I mostly avoid politics online because it’s hard to get more than a snapshot of what people really believe, (at least, I’m not good at accurately and concisely expressing myself) but I’ve found several political discussions where everyone involved is actively trying to have constructive conversation. It mostly depends on where you go. >

It depends on what groups you choose to view. I don’t see toxicity in made me smile, animals being derps, humans being bros, nba, I took a picture of, vagabond, what is this thing, camping, food porn, dad jokes etc..
You can make your own bed with what you choose to view. If you think what you’re seeing is toxic and continue to follow that group and complain, that’s not Reddit, fault. Topics can be entertaining, informative, engaging, funny….I don’t agree with your premise at all. >

I feel like this is it for most social media sites.
I'm on twitter. I follow almost primarily artists, and a few people I know personally.
And if anyone starts spewing hot takes, I unfollow and/or block them because I don't use twitter to have discussions or talk about theories - I use it to look at pictures, and occasionally comment on my day/my friend's tweets.
Just curate your own experience. If they do not spark joy, just fucking block them or something. Life's too short. >

The problem is that Twitter will push popular tweets at you that are vaguely connected to your interests to get engagements, and usually from people counter to what you actually want in order to get you angry. If you like dogs, you will get posts from #dogsrunoverlol >

Only if you use 'For You' instead of 'Following'.
Obviously, Twitter wants to push things it'll think will create engagement, but you can still ignore it. >


Most subreddit posts are full of concealed rants and toxicity.

That's the difference: on other social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.), it's not concealed. The toxicity is open and notorious. The fact that Reddit conceals toxicity through downvoting and subreddit sorting makes it somewhat less toxic. >

You have brought up a good point with the visible downvotes. Δ
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that there does not exist a "downvote" button on other social media platforms. There are, they just don't make it visible, I think the reasoning is so that they put less stress on the creators?
Also, by concealed toxicity, I was also talking about the top posts being concealed toxicity. >

It's not so much that downvote buttons don't exist on other social media (although sometimes they do not), it's that these buttons don't effectively hide content on other social media. Pressing the "dislike" button on YouTube doesn't stop people from viewing the video or from being recommended the video. >

I'm pretty sure a dislike will affect the viewership of the content, even if it's not shown. >

It affects the videos you see and get recommended. >

It also affects who else gets shown the video. It still doesn't reduce the amount of people who will be shown the video, of course. But the recommendations algorithm also uses "people like you also like" type inferences, so if you dislike a video, people who seem to have a similar taste to you will be less likely to see it, while people who seem to have the opposite taste will be more likely to see it. >

The best place to see the downvote bots is probably 
r/conspiracy just look at its active users and then the amount of upvotes the posts gets it's extremely obvious it happens on every sub.
Or go post any criticism of the left on r/politics it's pretty insane how authoritarian this place is. >

much of reddit is very authoritarian far left >


Almost every post there seems to be influenced by some sort of pessimism geared to rile people up that is very similar to the 24 hour news cycle that society apparently hates.

Each sub is also far more moderated than any social media platform, making it alright to be outraged over certain controversies and not outraged with others. This closes the gap on anonymity. >

As a queer person I can assure you Twitter is much, much worse from my perspective. I'm sure there are worse parts of Reddit, but it doesn't regularly put messages from people who think I should not be allowed human rights in front of me. Some going so far as to suggest concentration camps. Twitter is a fun place...