• stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    Lemmy, where you get downvoted for being confused and asking for clarification. Good job everyone.

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      13 days ago

      I still use Lemmy and Reddit side by side. I find a lot of submissions and comments on Reddit downvoted, where they’re nothing burger contributions; some of the most non-divisive, non-offensive, and opinionless contributions I’ve come across.

      I don’t recall this behaviour when I first started using Reddit about 10 years ago. It makes me wonder if the world has become a lot more bitter in recent years since this type of behaviour is seen across platforms.

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        13 days ago

        I just feel like people are just too quick to assume the question is asked with bad intentions nowadays. It might be more bitterness, as you said, and it could also be more cynicism from most people. All I know is that it makes a lot of platforms more unpleasant to participate in.

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      12 days ago

      It’s because no one ever reads the article they just read the headline and make up their own story.

      In this guy’s head Elon Musk personally did this.