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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by willis936@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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I find the quality and variety of discussions on the fediverse to be lower than what I had on reddit. Lemmings have strong preconceived notions and little interest in changing viewpoints from new information. I think I'll be switching back.

Edit: you'll find that most of the comments deny any shortcomings of the culture and go directly to invalidating my opinions via character assassination. If lemmy was a community that actually stood for the ideals which it espouses it would take constructive criticism in the spirit in which it was intended. QED.

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[–] Blackout@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You can literally predict the comments on reddit these days before looking. It's the same articles, same top comments, over and over again. You try to be original there and you get down voted. Got to stick to the template and karma can be yours :/

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I always hated that about Reddit; the lack of authenticity. I tried to be my genuine self, and always was downvoted for it. It started to feel like maybe somebody took offense and wrote a bot to follow and downvote everything I posted. Yes, I'm paranoid. :)

[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

So basically all subreddits are actually sub-subreddits of the subreddit simulator subreddit.

God I hate that that sentence actually parses and is a thing that makes sense in the English language.