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.
Thats true but before I quit facebook i had to see my own family and friends post hateful content and these are real people unfortunately.
I also see them in real life, at one of my last jobs i was working with an actual nazi, he would go on and on about how hitler was right about the jews, and he would spout this crap to anyone who had to work at his table. (It was a carpentry job)
I used to believe it was the anonymity and im sure that contributes, but many people are fine with airing their hatred out for everyone to see.
Yeah but to have a platform, you used to have to have some credentials. Otherwise you were just a nut shouting bullshit from a milk crate at anyone that would listen.
In the real world, these idiots get failing grades and pinkslips.
In social media land, they can get thousands of millions of people to listen to their bullshit, and other dumb people mistake up votes, likes and retweet, for credibility.
When hiding behind anonymity, the rest of us can’t expose these people as being uneducated nobodies.