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Look while I do agree Reddit can be a bit of an echo chamber, what you're saying is you struggle to interact with a community in a way that the people in that community are happy with. I'm not suggesting that you are a trolling fuckbag intent on only starting fights and drama for their own amusement, but what you want to be able to do without restriction is the same as what a trolling fuckbag intent on only starting fights and drama for their own amusement would want...
I don't necessarily disagree with your point, I just don't think it's a good enough reason to decide minimum karma limits aren't valuable.
Since most redditors fail at voting and use the buttons as "I agree" or "I disagree" buttons, it becomes pretty easy to have a normal mainstream opinion and get absolutely crucified because you accidently wandered into yet another echo chamber. Let's say hypothetically that you were a new reddit user and not a user for over 10 years, and you walk in and say a normie opinion, and then get downvoted into oblivion by an echo chamber. What does that look like to the victim of the downvote brigade?
Originally downvotes didn't matter, they were just imaginary internet points. With automod minimum karma limits, for a brand new user, now not only did your post get piledriven into the dirt for what would normally be an uncontroversial opinion, but now your ability to interact elsewhere on reddit has been compromised.
After that, lots of people who might otherwise be good users will just say "forget that" and leave, further enforcing the echo chamber.